The setting used in this section is primarily that of a bag-\abbrPDB query with set-\abbrPDB inputs. Recall, as noted in \cref{sec:intro-rewrite-070921}, this is not limiting.
Denote the schema of $\db$ as $\sch(\db)$. A \textit{probabilistic database}$\pdb$ is a pair $(\idb, \pd)$ where $\idb$ is an incomplete database and $\pd$ is a probability distribution over $\idb$. Queries over probabilistic databases are evaluated using the so-called possible world semantics. Under the possible world semantics, the result of a query $\query$ over an incomplete database $\idb$ is the set of query answers produced by evaluating $\query$ over each possible world: $\query(\idb)=\comprehension{\query(\db)}{\db\in\idb}$.
For a probabilistic database $\pdb=(\idb, \pd)$, the result of a query is the pair $(\query(\idb), \pd')$ where $\pd'$ is a probability distribution over $\query(\idb)$ that assigns to each possible query result the sum of the probabilities of the worlds that produce this answer:
We model incomplete relations using Green et. al.'s $\semNX$-databases~\cite{DBLP:conf/pods/GreenKT07}, discussed in detail in \Cref{subsec:supp-mat-krelations}.
Each possible world is defined by an assignment of $\numvar$ binary values $\vct{\wElem}\in\{0, 1\}^{\numvar}$ to $\vct{X}$.
The multiplicity of $t \in R$ in this possible world, denoted $R(t)(\vct{\wElem})$, is obtained by evaluating the polynomial annotating $t$ on $\vct{\wElem}$.
We will use $\semNX$-\abbrPDB$\pxdb$, defined as the tuple $(\idb_{\semNX}, \pd)$, where $\semNX$-database $\idb_{\semNX}$ is paired with probability distribution $\pd$.
We denote by $\polyForTuple$ the annotation of tuple $t$ in the result of $\query$ on an implicit $\semNX$-\abbrPDB (i.e., $\polyForTuple=\query(\pxdb)(t)$ for some $\pxdb$) and as before, interpret it as a function $\polyForTuple: \{0,1\}^{\numvar}\rightarrow\semN$ from vectors of variable assignments to the corresponding value of the annotating polynomial.
$\semNX$-\abbrPDB\xplural and a function $\rmod$ (which transforms an $\semNX$-\abbrPDB to a classical bag-\abbrPDB, or $\semN$-\abbrPDB~\cite{DBLP:conf/pods/GreenKT07,feng:2019:sigmod:uncertainty}) are both formalized in \Cref{subsec:supp-mat-background}.
\footnote{Although assumed by most prior work on set-probabilistic databases, e.g., as an obvious consequence of~\cite{IL84a}'s Theorem 7.1, we are unaware of any formal proof for bag-probabilistic databases.}
This proposition shows that computing expected tuple multiplicities is equivalent to computing the expectation of a polynomial (for that tuple) from a probability distribution over all possible assignments of variables in the polynomial to $\{0,1\}$.
We focus on this problem from now on, assume an implicit result tuple, and so drop the subscript from $\polyForTuple$ (i.e., $\poly$ will denote a polynomial).
A \bi$\pxdb=(\idb_{\semNX}, \pd)$ is an $\semNX$-\abbrPDB such that (i) every tuple is annotated with either $0$ (i.e., the tuple does not exist) or a unique variable $X_i$ and (ii) that the tuples $\tup$ of $\pxdb$ for which $\pxdb(\tup)\neq0$ can be partitioned into a set of blocks such that variables from separate blocks are independent of each other and variables from the same block are disjoint events.
In a \bi (and by extension a \ti) $\pxdb$, tuples are partitioned into $\ell$ blocks $\block_1, \ldots, \block_\ell$ where tuple $t_{i,j}\in\block_i$ is associated with a probability $\prob_{\tup_{i,j}}=\probOf[X_{i,j}=1]$, and is annotated with a unique variable $X_{i,j}$.\footnote{
Although only a single independent, $[\abs{\block_i}+1]$-valued variable is customarily used per block, we decompose it into $\abs{\block_i}$ correlated $\{0,1\}$-valued variables per block that can be used directly in polynomials (without an indicator function). For $t_{i, j}\in b_i$, the event $(X_{i,j}=1)$ corresponds to the event $(X_i = j)$ in the customary annotation scheme.
Because blocks are independent and tuples from the same block are disjoint, the probabilities $\prob_{\tup_{i,j}}$ and the blocks induce the probability distribution $\pd$ of $\pxdb$.
We will write a \bi-lineage polynomial $\poly(\vct{X})$ for a \bi with $\ell$ blocks as
$\poly(\vct{X})$ = $\poly(X_{1, 1},\ldots, X_{1, \abs{\block_1}},$$\ldots, X_{\ell, \abs{\block_\ell}})$, where $\abs{\block_i}$ denotes the size of $\block_i$.\footnote{Later on in the paper, especially in \Cref{sec:algo}, we will overload notation and rename the variables as $X_1,\dots,X_n$, where $n=\sum_{i=1}^\ell\abs{b_i}$.}
