Threshold Queries in Theory and in the Wild

@article{Bonifati2021ThresholdQI,
  title={Threshold Queries in Theory and in the Wild},
  author={Angela Bonifati and Stefania Dumbrava and G. Fletcher and Jan Hidders and Matthias F. J. Hofer and Wim Martens and Filip Murlak and Joshua Shinavier and Slawomir Staworko and Dominik Tomaszuk},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2021},
  volume={abs/2106.15703}
}
Threshold queries are an important class of queries that only require computing or counting answers up to a specified threshold value. To the best of our knowledge, threshold queries have been largely disregarded in the research literature, which is surprising considering how common they are in practice. In this paper, we present a deep theoretical analysis of threshold query evaluation and show that thresholds can be used to significantly improve the asymptotic bounds of state-of-the-art query… 
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