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VLDB
2001
ACM
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13 years 12 months ago
Distinct Sampling for Highly-Accurate Answers to Distinct Values Queries and Event Reports
Estimating the number of distinct values is a wellstudied problem, due to its frequent occurrence in queries and its importance in selecting good query plans. Previous work has sh...
Phillip B. Gibbons
ICDE
2001
IEEE
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14 years 9 months ago
Overcoming Limitations of Sampling for Aggregation Queries
We study the problem of approximately answering aggregation queries using sampling. We observe that uniform sampling performs poorly when the distribution of the aggregated attrib...
Surajit Chaudhuri, Gautam Das, Mayur Datar, Rajeev...
SIGMOD
2001
ACM
229views Database» more  SIGMOD 2001»
14 years 7 months ago
A Robust, Optimization-Based Approach for Approximate Answering of Aggregate Queries
The ability to approximately answer aggregation queries accurately and efficiently is of great benefit for decision support and data mining tools. In contrast to previous sampling...
Surajit Chaudhuri, Gautam Das, Vivek R. Narasayya
FOCS
2010
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
Boosting and Differential Privacy
Boosting is a general method for improving the accuracy of learning algorithms. We use boosting to construct improved privacy-preserving synopses of an input database. These are da...
Cynthia Dwork, Guy N. Rothblum, Salil P. Vadhan
VLDB
2004
ACM
158views Database» more  VLDB 2004»
14 years 26 days ago
REHIST: Relative Error Histogram Construction Algorithms
Histograms and Wavelet synopses provide useful tools in query optimization and approximate query answering. Traditional histogram construction algorithms, such as V-Optimal, optim...
Sudipto Guha, Kyuseok Shim, Jungchul Woo