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Selectivity Estimation for Range Predicates using Lightweight Models

Summary: Framing selectivity for multi-dimensional range predicates as regression and evaluating lightweight neural nets and tree ensembles; naive use underperforms simple baselines. It introduces regression-label transformation and feature engineering, delivering fast, accurate estimates across diverse datasets for optimizers. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h9ca47ddcdbacab57
Venue
VLDB
Year
2019
Pagerank
0.00014737455
Overall Rank
691 | 95.36%
DOI
10.14778/3329772.3329780
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BibTeX Citation

@article{dutt_vldb19,
        title = {{Selectivity Estimation for Range Predicates using Lightweight Models}},
        author = {Dutt, Anshuman and Wang, Chi and Nazi, Azade and Kandula, Srikanth and Narasayya, Vivek and Chaudhuri, Surajit},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '19},
        volume = {12},
        number = {9},
        pages = {1044--1057},
        doi = {10.14778/3329772.3329780},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3329772.3329780},
        year = {2019}
}

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232 Adaptive Selectivity Estimation Using Query Feedback 1994 SIGMOD 0.0002378554
286 Selectivity Estimation using Probabilistic Models 2001 SIGMOD 0.00022112534
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