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\section{Background and Notation}\label{sec:background}

\subsection{Probabilistic Databases}

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.  

An \textit{incomplete database} $\idb$ is a set of deterministic databases $\db$ called possible worlds.
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:
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\[\forall \db \in \query(\idb): \pd'(\db) = \sum_{\db' \in \idb: \query(\db') = \db} \pd(\db') \]

Let $\semNX$ denote the set of polynomials over variables $\vct{X}=(X_1,\dots,X_\numvar)$ with natural number coefficients and exponents.
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}. 
 $\semNX$-databases are functions from tuples to elements of $\semNX$, typically called annotations.
Given an $\semNX$-database $\db$,  it is common to use $\db(\tup)$ to denote the polynomial annotating tuple $\tup$ in $\db$. 
%Note that based on this definition of $\rel$, $\rel(\tup)$ is the lineage polynomial for $\tup$.  
Let $\numvar$ be the number of tuples in $\pdb$.  Then, each possible world is defined by an assignment of $\numvar$ binary values $\vct{\wElem} \in \{0, 1\}^{\numvar}$ to $\vct{X}$.
The multiplicity of $\tup \in \db$, denoted $\db(\tup)(\vct{\wElem})$, is obtained by evaluating the polynomial annotating $\tup$ on $\vct{\wElem}$.
$\semNX$-relations are closed under $\raPlus$ (\Cref{fig:nxDBSemantics}).

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We will use $\semNX$-\abbrPDB $\pxdb$, defined as the tuple $(\idb_{\semNX}, \pd)$, where $\semNX$-database $\idb_{\semNX}$ is paired with probability distribution $\pd$ over the assignments to $\vct{X}$.
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}.
\begin{Proposition}[Expectation of polynomials]\label{prop:expection-of-polynom}
  Given an $\semN$-\abbrPDB $\pdb = (\idb,\pd)$ and $\semNX$-\abbrPDB $\pxdb = (\idb_{\semNX}',\pd')$ where $\rmod(\pxdb) = \pdb$, we have:
  $ \expct_{\randDB \sim \pd}[\query(\randDB)(t)] = \expct_{\randWorld\sim \pd'}\pbox{\polyForTuple(\randWorld)}. $
  \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.}
\end{Proposition}
\noindent A formal proof of \Cref{prop:expection-of-polynom} is given in \Cref{subsec:expectation-of-polynom-proof}.
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).

\subsubsection{\tis and \bis}
\label{subsec:tidbs-and-bidbs}
In this paper, we focus on two popular forms of \abbrPDB\xplural: Block-Independent (\bi) and Tuple-Independent (\ti) \abbrPDB\xplural.
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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 $\pxdb(\tup) \neq 0$ 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 other words, each random variable corresponds to the event of a single tuple's presence.
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A \emph{\ti} is a \bi where each block contains exactly one tuple.
\Cref{subsec:supp-mat-ti-bi-def} explains \tis and \bis in greater detail.
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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.
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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 $n=\sum_{i=1}^\ell \abs{b_i}$.}

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