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Top-k Query Evaluation with Probabilistic Guarantees

Summary: Proposes approximate top-k algorithms using probabilistic bounds to prune candidates during index-list scans, reducing reliance on Fagin’s TA. Convolution-based bounds yield high-probability guarantees for early dropping, with experiments on Web and structured data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h0192d3cf68050cd5
Venue
VLDB
Year
2004
Pagerank
0.00010292787
Overall Rank
1,539 | 89.69%
DOI
10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50058-9

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

BibTeX Citation

@article{theobald_vldb04,
        title = {{Top-k Query Evaluation with Probabilistic Guarantees}},
        author = {Theobald, Martin and Weikum, Gerhard and Schenkel, Ralf},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '04},
        pages = {648--659},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50058-9},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012088469-8.50058-9},
        year = {2004}
}

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1,447 Continuous Monitoring of Top-k Queries over Sliding Windows 2006 SIGMOD 0.00010604169
1,769 Structured Querying of Web Text: A Technical Challenge 2007 CIDR 9.6796356e-05
2,019 IO-Top-k: Index-access Optimized Top-k Query Processing 2006 VLDB 9.1666472e-05
2,406 Integrating DB and IR Technologies: What is the Sound of One Hand Clapping? * 2005 CIDR 8.4962449e-05
2,653 The SphereSearch Engine for Unified Ranked Retrieval of Heterogeneous XML and Web Documents 2005 VLDB 8.1494409e-05
2,880 KLEE: A Framework for Distributed Top-k Query Algorithms 2005 VLDB 7.8948229e-05
3,288 An Efficient and Versatile Query Engine for TopX Search 2005 VLDB 7.4398818e-05
3,391 Ad-hoc Top-k Query Answering for Data Streams 2007 VLDB 7.3290724e-05
5,918 On Efficient Approximate Queries over Machine Learning Models 2023 VLDB 5.9307869e-05
6,223 MINERVA: Collaborative P2P Search 2005 VLDB 5.8286278e-05
6,312 Ad-Hoc Aggregations of Ranked Lists in the Presence of Hierarchies 2008 SIGMOD 5.7971119e-05
6,997 A Scalable Index for Top-k Subtree Similarity Queries 2019 SIGMOD 5.6091287e-05
7,125 DeepEverest: Accelerating Declarative Top-K Queries for Deep Neural Network Interpretation 2022 VLDB 5.580601e-05
7,348 Anytime Measures for Top-k Algorithms 2007 VLDB 5.5302579e-05
7,449 Efficient and Flexible Information Retrieval Using MonetDB/X100 2007 CIDR 5.5107924e-05
7,637 Processing Top-k Join Queries 2010 VLDB 5.4630004e-05
9,321 A General Framework for Modeling and Processing Optimization Queries 2007 VLDB 5.1825641e-05
11,245 Approximating Opaque Top-k Queries 2025 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
12,499 Leveraging Graph Dimensions in Online Graph Search 2015 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
12,726 Efficient Rank Join with Aggregation Constraints 2011 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
12,802 An Access Cost-Aware Approach for Object Retrieval over Multiple Sources 2010 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
12,833 Skip-and-Prune: Cosine-based Top-K Query Processing for Efficient Context-Sensitive Document Retrieval 2009 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
12,880 Robust and Distributed Top-N Frequent-Pattern Mining With SAP BW Accelerator 2009 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
12,987 The TopX DB&IR Engine 2007 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
13,094 Database-Inspired Search 2005 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
5 Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware [Extended Abstract] 2001 PODS 0.0010688884
110 Optimizing Multi-Feature Queries for Image Databases 2000 VLDB 0.00032662513
254 The History of Histograms (abridged) 2003 VLDB 0.00022999992
478 Automated Ranking of Database Query Results 2003 CIDR 0.00017612826
511 Supporting Incremental Join Queries on Ranked Inputs 2001 VLDB 0.00017061618
840 Minimal Probing: Supporting Expensive Predicates for Top-k Queries 2002 SIGMOD 0.00013521251
2,193 Probabilistic Optimization of Top N Queries 1999 VLDB 8.8828694e-05
3,013 Optimized Query Execution in Large Search Engines with Global Page Ordering 2003 VLDB 7.7409067e-05
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