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PACE: Poisoning Attacks on Learned Cardinality Estimation

Summary: PACE enables black-box poisoning of learned cardinality estimators, causing significant accuracy degradation. It uses a surrogate to approximate the model, solves a two-variable poisoning optimization, and trains a poison generator with an anomaly detector to mimic workload. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h07127c12c44dcd18
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2024
Pagerank
5.2717563e-05
Overall Rank
8,808 | 40.81%
DOI
10.1145/3639292
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@inproceedings{zhang_sigmod24,
        title = {{PACE: Poisoning Attacks on Learned Cardinality Estimation}},
        author = {Zhang, Jintao and Zhang, Chao and Li, Guoliang and Chai, Chengliang},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '24},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3639292},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3639292},
        year = {2024}
}

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85 Learned Cardinalities: Estimating Correlated Joins with Deep Learning 2019 CIDR 0.00035876108
318 DeepDB: Learn from Data, not from Queries! 2020 VLDB 0.00021166957
386 Preventing Bad Plans by Bounding the Impact of Cardinality Estimation Errors 2009 VLDB 0.00019446558
406 Deep Unsupervised Cardinality Estimation 2020 VLDB 0.00019050182
510 NeuroCard: One Cardinality Estimator for All Tables 2021 VLDB 0.00017059914
691 Selectivity Estimation for Range Predicates using Lightweight Models 2019 VLDB 0.00014737455
981 Cardinality Estimation in DBMS: A Comprehensive Benchmark Evaluation 2022 VLDB 0.00012713454
1,065 Are We Ready For Learned Cardinality Estimation? 2021 VLDB 0.00012202293
1,432 Towards a Learning Optimizer for Shared Clouds 2019 VLDB 0.00010676754
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2,908 AI Meets Database: AI4DB and DB4AI 2021 SIGMOD 7.8716173e-05
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3,680 openGauss: An Autonomous Database System 2021 VLDB 7.1016555e-05
3,742 FACE: A Normalizing Flow based Cardinality Estimator 2022 VLDB 7.0564546e-05
3,779 HTAP Databases: What is New and What is Next 2022 SIGMOD 7.0234898e-05
4,559 Warper: Efficiently Adapting Learned Cardinality Estimators to Data and Workload Drifts 2022 SIGMOD 6.5324275e-05
4,618 The Price of Tailoring the Index to Your Data: Poisoning Attacks on Learned Index Structures 2022 SIGMOD 6.4981355e-05
5,715 Detect, Distill and Update: Learned DB Systems Facing Out of Distribution Data 2023 SIGMOD 6.0178585e-05
8,053 Cloud Databases: New Techniques, Challenges, and Opportunities 2022 VLDB 5.3980482e-05
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