View PDF (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.03049)HTML (experimental) (https://arxiv.org/html/2607.03049v1) Abstract:Fast estimation of the size of the largest overlap between tables enables blocking and query-by-table retrieval in large table repositories. The first and the state-of-the-art estimator Armadillo improves efficiency by embedding each table independently and approximating overlap ratio via embedding similarity. However, accurate estimation in heterogeneous repositories remains limited by three challenges: (C1) overlap depends on row-column structure, i.e., each matched cell must preserve both its row and column membership under a joint alignment of the two tables, but existing encodings leave this structure to be inferred indirectly; (C2) independent encoding provides no explicit channel for inter-table alignment signals, biasing prediction toward global similarity; (C3) naive value encodings overfit to corpus-specific distributions, causing cross-domain degradation. Hence, we propose ALORE, a scalable and domain-robust overlap ratio estimator built on three principles: (P1) explicitly represent row-column structure; (P2) expose inter-table alignment signals during training without expensive alignment search; (P3) reduce sensitivity to corpus-specific value distributions. ALORE instantiates these principles with a Two-View Row-Column Hypergraph encoder, alignment-guided objectives with inexpensive interaction signals, and a domain-robust value mapping. Experiments on multiple datasets spanning diverse domains and scales, including a large real-world corpus beyond prior benchmarks, show that ALORE outperforms the state of the art. ALORE reduces MAE by up to 55% overall and 69% in zero-shot transfer, while achieving up to 89x speedup. We further validate its effectiveness for query-by-table retrieval. Comments:Accepted/to appear at SIGMOD 2027 Subjects:Computation and Language (cs.CL); Databases (cs.DB) Cite as:arXiv:2607.03049 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.03049) [cs.CL] (or arXiv:2607.03049v1 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.03049v1) [cs.CL] for this version) https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.03049 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration) Submission history From: Ge Lee [view email (https://arxiv.org/show-email/a5345612/2607.03049)] • *[v1]** Fri, 3 Jul 2026 07:38:43 UTC (3,960 KB)