Efficient k-Regret Query Algorithm with Restriction-free Bound for any Dimensionality
Summary: Lower bound on the maximum regret ratio for k-regret queries; Sphere, a restriction-free algorithm that works in arbitrary dimensionality. Asymptotically optimal upper bound on regret, outperforming state-of-the-art methods in extensive experiments. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Min Xie (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
- 2. Raymond Chi-Wing Wong (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
- 3. Jian Li (Tsinghua University)
- 4. Cheng Long (Queen's University Belfast)
- 5. Ashwin Lall (Denison University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{xie_sigmod18,
title = {{Efficient k-Regret Query Algorithm with Restriction-free Bound for any Dimensionality}},
author = {Xie, Min and Wong, Raymond Chi-Wing and Li, Jian and Long, Cheng and Lall, Ashwin},
series = {{SIGMOD} '18},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3183713.3196903},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3183713.3196903},
year = {2018}
}
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| 6,756 | Marrying Top-k with Skyline Queries: Relaxing the Preference Input while Producing Output of Controllable Size | 2021 | SIGMOD | 5.6900378e-05 |
| 6,918 | A Unified Optimization Algorithm For Solving “Regret-Minimizing Representative” Problems | 2020 | VLDB | 5.6445155e-05 |
| 7,452 | Strongly Truthful Interactive Regret Minimization | 2019 | SIGMOD | 5.5235226e-05 |
| 8,993 | Creating Top Ranking Options in the Continuous Option and Preference Space | 2019 | VLDB | 5.2419215e-05 |
| 9,576 | Happiness Maximizing Sets under Group Fairness Constraints | 2023 | VLDB | 5.1571823e-05 |
| 10,085 | Minimum Coresets for Maxima Representation of Multidimensional Data | 2021 | PODS | 5.0830849e-05 |
| 10,086 | On m-Impact Regions and Standing Top-k Influence Problems | 2021 | SIGMOD | 5.0830849e-05 |
| 10,087 | Interactive Search for One of the Top-k | 2021 | SIGMOD | 5.0830849e-05 |
| 11,884 | Interactive Mining with Ordered and Unordered Attributes | 2022 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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| 342 | The Onion Technique: Indexing for Linear Optimization Queries | 2000 | SIGMOD | 0.00020530255 |
| 817 | Finding k-Dominant Skylines in High Dimensional Space | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.00013672764 |
| 1,087 | Regret-Minimizing Representative Databases | 2010 | VLDB | 0.00012097722 |
| 1,476 | Diversifying Top-K Results | 2012 | VLDB | 0.00010551487 |
| 1,990 | Discovering Relative Importance of Skyline Attributes | 2009 | VLDB | 9.2454758e-05 |
| 2,105 | Computing k-Regret Minimizing Sets | 2014 | VLDB | 9.0330207e-05 |
| 2,174 | Top-k Bounded Diversification | 2012 | SIGMOD | 8.917444e-05 |
| 2,545 | Interactive Regret Minimization | 2012 | SIGMOD | 8.3178501e-05 |
| 4,831 | Efficient Computation of Regret-ratio Minimizing Set: A Compact Maxima Representative | 2017 | SIGMOD | 6.3897334e-05 |
| 5,786 | k-Regret Queries with Nonlinear Utilities | 2015 | VLDB | 5.9954861e-05 |
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