Abstract: Query optimization is of great importance for the performance of a database, in which cardinality and cost estimation have a pivotal role. To enable accurate cardinality and cost estimation, ...

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Abstract: Subset selection, a fundamental problem in various domains, is to choose a subset of elements from a large candidate set under a given objective or multiple objectives. Pareto optimization ...

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