{ "nbformat": 4, "nbformat_minor": 5, "metadata": { "kernelspec": { "name": "provsql-studio", "display_name": "ProvSQL (SQL)", "language": "sql" }, "language_info": { "name": "sql" }, "provsql": { "scheme": "semiring", "database": "cs5", "generated_from": "doc/source/user/casestudy5.rst" } }, "cells": [ { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "# Case Study: Wildlife Photo Archive\n", "\n", "This case study, loosely inspired by a ProvSQL demonstration at EDBT 2025, applies ProvSQL to a database of wildlife photographs annotated by a species-detection model. It demonstrates the `VALUES` clause, [`repair_key`](https://provsql.org/doxygen-sql/html/group__table__management.html#gacfbe67438895e5f153b01bb9352cbc54) and the `mulinput` gate, ranking by probability versus thresholding, `EXCEPT`, common table expressions, and [`expected`](https://provsql.org/doxygen-sql/html/group__probability.html#ga7124b41224adc29ff5405d5ad6db277e) aggregates.\n", "\n", "## The Scenario\n", "\n", "A naturalist organisation maintains a database of wildlife photographs taken at four field stations in the Scottish Highlands. Each photo has been processed by a species-detection model that draws one or more *bounding boxes* around things it thinks are animals, and for each box reports a list of candidate species with a confidence score. A box can therefore appear with several species candidates (e.g. a partly-occluded shape might score 0.40 as red deer and 0.30 as roe deer); a photo can contain several boxes of the same species (e.g. three deer in a meadow shot).\n", "\n", "Your tasks:\n", "\n", "- find photos that contain specific combinations of species,\n", "- rank results by the probability that the combination is truly present,\n", "- compare probabilistic ranking against naive confidence thresholding,\n", "- exclude photos that contain unwanted species,\n", "- compute expected species counts per photo.\n", "\n", "## Setup" ] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "*The following cells set up the database with all the content this notebook requires; run them first, ideally on a fresh database.*" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "provsql": {} }, "source": [ "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS photo CASCADE;\n", "CREATE TABLE photo (\n", " id integer PRIMARY KEY,\n", " station text NOT NULL,\n", " date date NOT NULL,\n", " filename text NOT NULL\n", ");" ], "outputs": [] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "provsql": {} }, "source": [ "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS species CASCADE;\n", "CREATE TABLE species (\n", " id integer PRIMARY KEY,\n", " name text NOT NULL,\n", " category text NOT NULL -- 'mammal', 'bird', 'reptile'\n", ");" ], "outputs": [] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "provsql": {} }, "source": [ "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS detection CASCADE;\n", "CREATE TABLE detection (\n", " photo_id integer NOT NULL,\n", " bbox_id integer NOT NULL,\n", " species_id integer, -- NULL: animal detected, species unidentified\n", " confidence double precision NOT NULL\n", ");" ], "outputs": [] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "provsql": {} }, "source": [ "TRUNCATE photo;\n", "COPY photo (id, station, date, filename) FROM stdin;\n", "1\tLoch Torridon\t2024-06-15\tLT-20240615-0001.jpg\n", "2\tLoch Torridon\t2024-06-15\tLT-20240615-0002.jpg\n", "3\tLoch Torridon\t2024-07-02\tLT-20240702-0001.jpg\n", "4\tLoch Torridon\t2024-07-15\tLT-20240715-0001.jpg\n", "5\tLoch Torridon\t2024-08-03\tLT-20240803-0001.jpg\n", "6\tLoch Torridon\t2024-08-12\tLT-20240812-0001.jpg\n", "7\tLoch Torridon\t2024-08-20\tLT-20240820-0001.jpg\n", "8\tLoch Torridon\t2024-09-01\tLT-20240901-0001.jpg\n", "9\tGlen Affric\t2024-06-20\tGA-20240620-0001.jpg\n", "10\tGlen Affric\t2024-07-04\tGA-20240704-0001.jpg\n", "11\tGlen Affric\t2024-07-15\tGA-20240715-0001.jpg\n", "12\tGlen Affric\t2024-08-08\tGA-20240808-0001.jpg\n", "13\tGlen Affric\t2024-08-25\tGA-20240825-0001.jpg\n", "14\tGlen Affric\t2024-09-10\tGA-20240910-0001.jpg\n", "15\tGlen Affric\t2024-09-22\tGA-20240922-0001.jpg\n", "16\tRannoch Moor\t2024-06-10\tRM-20240610-0001.jpg\n", "17\tRannoch Moor\t2024-06-25\tRM-20240625-0001.jpg\n", "18\tRannoch Moor\t2024-07-12\tRM-20240712-0001.jpg\n", "19\tRannoch Moor\t2024-07-30\tRM-20240730-0001.jpg\n", "20\tRannoch Moor\t2024-08-15\tRM-20240815-0001.jpg\n", "21\tRannoch Moor\t2024-09-02\tRM-20240902-0001.jpg\n", "22\tRannoch Moor\t2024-09-15\tRM-20240915-0001.jpg\n", "23\tCairngorms\t2024-06-18\tCG-20240618-0001.jpg\n", "24\tCairngorms\t2024-07-01\tCG-20240701-0001.jpg\n", "25\tCairngorms\t2024-07-20\tCG-20240720-0001.jpg\n", "26\tCairngorms\t2024-08-05\tCG-20240805-0001.jpg\n", "27\tCairngorms\t2024-08-22\tCG-20240822-0001.jpg\n", "28\tCairngorms\t2024-09-08\tCG-20240908-0001.jpg\n", "29\tCairngorms\t2024-09-20\tCG-20240920-0001.jpg\n", "30\tCairngorms\t2024-10-01\tCG-20241001-0001.jpg\n", "\\." ], "outputs": [] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "provsql": {} }, "source": [ "TRUNCATE species;\n", "COPY species (id, name, category) FROM stdin;\n", "1\tRed Deer\tmammal\n", "2\tRoe Deer\tmammal\n", "3\tRed Fox\tmammal\n", "4\tMountain Hare\tmammal\n", "5\tPine Marten\tmammal\n", "6\tRed Squirrel\tmammal\n", "7\tGolden Eagle\tbird\n", "8\tOsprey\tbird\n", "9\tCapercaillie\tbird\n", "10\tAdder\treptile\n", "11\tCommon Lizard\treptile\n", "12\tWildcat\tmammal\n", "13\tDomestic Dog\tmammal\n", "\\." ], "outputs": [] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "provsql": {} }, "source": [ "-- Detections. Each row is one (bounding-box, species) candidate produced\n", "-- by the classifier; multiple rows for the same (photo_id, bbox_id) pair\n", "-- represent alternative species hypotheses for that single bounding box.\n", "-- Photo 5: low confidences across multiple bboxes, with one ambiguous box\n", "-- (deer or roe deer); motivates probabilistic ranking in Step 7.\n", "-- Photo 9: deer + high-confidence dog (excluded from \"deer, no dogs\").\n", "-- Photo 14: deer + low-confidence near-miss dog (interesting EXCEPT case).\n", "-- Photo 22: ambiguous box plus several clear ones (mixed herd at Rannoch).\n", "-- Photos 5 and 9 each also have one *unidentified* detection (species_id\n", "-- NULL): the classifier saw an animal but assigned no species.\n", "-- These drive the NULL-semantics comparison of Step 12.\n", "TRUNCATE detection;\n", "COPY detection (photo_id, bbox_id, species_id, confidence) FROM stdin;\n", "1\t1\t1\t0.78\n", "1\t2\t1\t0.65\n", "1\t3\t1\t0.71\n", "2\t1\t1\t0.85\n", "2\t2\t3\t0.72\n", "3\t1\t3\t0.68\n", "3\t2\t6\t0.55\n", "4\t1\t5\t0.81\n", "5\t1\t1\t0.40\n", "5\t1\t2\t0.30\n", "5\t2\t1\t0.42\n", "5\t3\t1\t0.38\n", "5\t4\t3\t0.43\n", "5\t5\t3\t0.48\n", "5\t6\t\\N\t0.60\n", "6\t1\t7\t0.91\n", "7\t1\t1\t0.76\n", "7\t2\t1\t0.62\n", "7\t3\t1\t0.59\n", "7\t4\t2\t0.58\n", "8\t1\t9\t0.83\n", "9\t1\t1\t0.79\n", "9\t2\t13\t0.92\n", "9\t3\t\\N\t0.50\n", "10\t1\t1\t0.73\n", "10\t2\t3\t0.66\n", "11\t1\t5\t0.74\n", "11\t2\t6\t0.62\n", "12\t1\t3\t0.81\n", "12\t2\t4\t0.55\n", "13\t1\t12\t0.71\n", "14\t1\t1\t0.84\n", "14\t2\t13\t0.18\n", "15\t1\t7\t0.86\n", "15\t2\t8\t0.79\n", "16\t1\t10\t0.62\n", "16\t2\t11\t0.58\n", "17\t1\t3\t0.74\n", "17\t2\t4\t0.66\n", "18\t1\t1\t0.61\n", "18\t2\t3\t0.55\n", "19\t1\t9\t0.78\n", "20\t1\t7\t0.89\n", "21\t1\t11\t0.53\n", "21\t2\t10\t0.49\n", "22\t1\t1\t0.82\n", "22\t2\t1\t0.71\n", "22\t3\t3\t0.77\n", "22\t3\t1\t0.20\n", "22\t4\t3\t0.64\n", "22\t5\t2\t0.69\n", "22\t6\t2\t0.55\n", "23\t1\t5\t0.71\n", "23\t2\t6\t0.68\n", "24\t1\t1\t0.74\n", "24\t2\t4\t0.62\n", "25\t1\t7\t0.88\n", "25\t2\t9\t0.74\n", "26\t1\t12\t0.65\n", "27\t1\t8\t0.83\n", "28\t1\t1\t0.76\n", "28\t2\t3\t0.69\n", "29\t1\t5\t0.79\n", "30\t1\t6\t0.71\n", "30\t2\t4\t0.59\n", "\\." ], "outputs": [] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "This creates three tables:\n", "\n", "- `photo` – 30 wildlife photographs, each tagged with a station name (Loch Torridon, Glen Affric, Rannoch Moor, or Cairngorms) and a date\n", "- `species` – 13 species across mammals, birds, and reptiles\n", "- `detection` – about 60 model-produced (bounding-box, species) candidate rows, each linking a photo and a bounding-box index to a candidate species with a confidence score; multiple rows for the same (`photo_id`, `bbox_id`) pair represent the classifier’s alternative species hypotheses for that single bounding box\n", "\n", "## Step 1: Explore the Database\n", "\n", "Inspect the tables. Note that `detection` is *not* keyed on (`photo_id`, `bbox_id`): a single bounding box can appear in several rows, one per candidate species the classifier considered." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "provsql": {} }, "source": [ "SELECT * FROM photo ORDER BY id LIMIT 5;\n", "SELECT * FROM species ORDER BY id;\n", "SELECT photo_id, bbox_id, species_id, confidence\n", "FROM detection\n", "WHERE photo_id IN (5, 9, 14, 22)\n", "ORDER BY photo_id, bbox_id, confidence DESC;" ], "outputs": [] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "## Step 2: Enable Provenance and Create a Name Mapping\n", "\n", "Enable provenance tracking on `detection`. Each row receives a UUID circuit token that propagates through any downstream query." ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "provsql": {} }, "source": [ "SELECT add_provenance('detection');" ], "outputs": [] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "To get readable formulas, we want to associate each detection’s provenance token with its species name. A *provenance mapping* in ProvSQL is nothing more than a regular table with two columns named `value` and `provenance` (plus, for performance, an index on `provenance`). The convenience function [`create_provenance_mapping`](https://provsql.org/doxygen-sql/html/group__table__management.html#ga3a351113a8b4687b0acc678f7715cf1b) builds such a table from one column of a provenance-enabled relation, but nothing prevents us from constructing the table by hand:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "provsql": {} }, "source": [ "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS species_mapping;\n", "CREATE TABLE species_mapping AS\n", " SELECT s.name AS value, d.provsql AS provenance\n", " FROM detection d JOIN species s ON s.id = d.species_id;\n", "\n", "SELECT remove_provenance('species_mapping');\n", "CREATE INDEX ON species_mapping(provenance);" ], "outputs": [] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "The `CREATE TABLE AS` query inherits a `provsql` column from `detection` via ProvSQL’s planner hook; [`remove_provenance`](https://provsql.org/doxygen-sql/html/group__table__management.html#ga91ced31ffd25c227390042e5089cb200) strips that extra column so only the `(value, provenance)` pair remains. Because the schema is fully under our control, we can populate the table from any expression – combine columns, filter rows, derive computed values – and any semiring-evaluation function (`sr_formula`, `sr_why`…) will happily consume the result.\n", "\n", "## Step 3: Inline Lookup with `VALUES`\n", "\n", "A `VALUES` clause defines an inline relation directly inside a query. ProvSQL’s planner hook treats it like any other source: rows it produces have no provenance of their own, but they carry through joins so that the result inherits provenance from the joined provenance-enabled rows.\n", "\n", "Here we use `VALUES` to define a small ad-hoc watchlist: a couple of species we want to look up by hand together with a human-readable label, instead of pulling them from the `species` table. Suppose we are interested in Red Deer (`species_id` 1, the dominant grazer whose density we want to track) and Red Fox (`species_id` 3, a generalist predator), and we want to tag the rows accordingly:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "provsql": {} }, "source": [ "SELECT v.label, p.id, p.station, p.date,\n", " sr_formula(provenance(), 'species_mapping') AS formula\n", "FROM (VALUES (1, 'mammal of interest'),\n", " (3, 'predator of interest')) AS v(species_id, label),\n", " detection d, photo p\n", "WHERE d.species_id = v.species_id AND d.photo_id = p.id\n", "ORDER BY p.id, v.label;" ], "outputs": [] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "Each output row carries the provenance of the underlying `detection` row alone: the formula is a single species token, even though the row also references `photo` and `VALUES`. Tables without provenance – including the `VALUES` rows – contribute no tokens.\n", "\n", "## Step 4: Conjunctive Query (Naive)\n", "\n", "Find photos that contain both Red Deer (`species_id` 1) and Red Fox (`species_id` 3) using a self-join on `detection`:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "provsql": {} }, "source": [ "SELECT p.id, p.station, p.date,\n", " sr_formula(provenance(), 'species_mapping') AS formula\n", "FROM detection d1\n", "JOIN detection d2 ON d1.photo_id = d2.photo_id\n", "JOIN photo p ON p.id = d1.photo_id\n", "WHERE d1.species_id = 1 AND d2.species_id = 3\n", "GROUP BY p.id, p.station, p.date\n", "ORDER BY p.id;" ], "outputs": [] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "Look at photo 5: the classifier produced three Red Deer candidate rows (in three different bounding boxes) and two Red Fox candidate rows (in two more boxes). Its formula is the ⊕-sum of all six (deer, fox) pair products – every candidate row is an independent input gate. This matches the structure of the underlying `detection` table but mis-models the data: each bounding box can correspond to *at most one real animal*, so candidate rows that share a `(photo_id, bbox_id)` pair should be mutually exclusive rather than independent. Nothing in the schema enforces that today, and the formula reflects the mismatch.\n", "\n", "## Step 5: Mutually Exclusive Candidates with `repair_key`\n", "\n", "[`repair_key`](https://provsql.org/doxygen-sql/html/group__table__management.html#gacfbe67438895e5f153b01bb9352cbc54) rewrites the provenance so that rows sharing a key become alternatives under a single `mulinput` (multivalued input) gate – i.e. *exactly one* of them is true. Applied with the key `(photo_id, bbox_id)`, every bounding box becomes one mulinput variable whose values are the candidate species the classifier considered for that box.\n", "\n", "For illustration, add a synthetic key combining photo and bounding-box index first ([`repair_key`](https://provsql.org/doxygen-sql/html/group__table__management.html#gacfbe67438895e5f153b01bb9352cbc54) also accepts a comma-separated column list, so `'photo_id,bbox_id'` would work directly). `repair_key` reinstalls the `provsql` column itself, so also drop the old mapping (whose tokens are about to become stale):" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "provsql": {} }, "source": [ "DROP TABLE species_mapping;\n", "SELECT remove_provenance('detection');\n", "\n", "ALTER TABLE detection ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS photo_bbox text;\n", "UPDATE detection SET photo_bbox = photo_id || '/' || bbox_id;\n", "\n", "SELECT repair_key('detection', 'photo_bbox');\n", "\n", "DROP TABLE IF EXISTS species_mapping;\n", "CREATE TABLE species_mapping AS\n", " SELECT s.name AS value, d.provsql AS provenance\n", " FROM detection d JOIN species s ON s.id = d.species_id;\n", "SELECT remove_provenance('species_mapping');\n", "CREATE INDEX ON species_mapping(provenance);" ], "outputs": [] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "Re-running the conjunctive query from Step 4 with [`sr_formula`](https://provsql.org/doxygen-sql/html/group__compiled__semirings.html#ga76c32e829ab40658af1103ffc22717a6) would not be illuminating: mutually exclusive events have no meaningful representation in the symbolic-formula semiring (each `mulinput` just collapses to `𝟙`). To visualize them we use [`sr_boolexpr`](https://provsql.org/doxygen-sql/html/group__compiled__semirings.html#ga41016a3000b008b59848687485b79425) instead, which renders the underlying Boolean formula with internal variable names and exposes each `mulinput` explicitly:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "provsql": {} }, "source": [ "SELECT p.id, sr_boolexpr(provenance()) AS bexpr\n", "FROM detection d1\n", "JOIN detection d2 ON d1.photo_id = d2.photo_id\n", "JOIN photo p ON p.id = d1.photo_id\n", "WHERE d1.species_id = 1 AND d2.species_id = 3 AND p.id IN (2, 5)\n", "GROUP BY p.id\n", "ORDER BY p.id;" ], "outputs": [] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "Each input now appears as a `mulinput` (the `{i=v}[p]` notation denotes “variable `i` takes value `v` with probability `p`”). In this query every variable happens to have a single value, so the mutually-exclusive structure is not visible yet. We will see a genuine multi-valued `mulinput` in the next step, where the deer/roe-deer candidates of one bounding box compose under the mutex constraint.\n", "\n", "**Note:**\n", "\n", "> [`view_circuit`](https://provsql.org/doxygen-sql/html/group__provenance__output.html#ga1c6caf1bb91c0cfdfc56c33666d41897) cannot render `mulinput` gates either and refuses to evaluate. Use [`sr_boolexpr`](https://provsql.org/doxygen-sql/html/group__compiled__semirings.html#ga41016a3000b008b59848687485b79425) to inspect circuits that contain `mulinput` gates, and [`probability_evaluate`](https://provsql.org/doxygen-sql/html/group__probability.html#gabffa40fef0e37a75d39d4c39c4a1ec0f) to score them.\n", "\n", "## Step 6: Assign Probabilities and Verify Mutual Exclusion\n", "\n", "Each candidate row’s confidence becomes the probability that that classifier candidate is the true species for its bounding box:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "provsql": {} }, "source": [ "DO $$ BEGIN\n", " PERFORM set_prob(provenance(), confidence) FROM detection;\n", "END $$;" ], "outputs": [] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "To see that `repair_key` made a numerical difference, ask: *what is the probability that bounding box 1 of photo 5 corresponds to a deer-like animal* (`species_id` 1 = Red Deer or 2 = Roe Deer)? In the data, that bounding box has both candidate species recorded with confidences 0.40 and 0.30:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "provsql": {} }, "source": [ "SELECT photo_id, bbox_id,\n", " sr_boolexpr(provenance()) AS bexpr,\n", " ROUND(probability_evaluate(provenance(), 'tree-decomposition')::numeric, 4) AS p\n", "FROM detection\n", "WHERE photo_id = 5 AND bbox_id = 1 AND species_id IN (1, 2)\n", "GROUP BY photo_id, bbox_id;" ], "outputs": [] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "The Boolean expression is now `{0=1}[0.400000] ∨ {0=2}[0.300000]`: a single mulinput variable (variable 0) with two mutually exclusive values, value 1 (Red Deer) with probability 0.40 and value 2 (Roe Deer) with probability 0.30. Probability evaluation gives `0.7000`, the sum of the two confidences, since combining mutually exclusive events with ⊕ is just addition. Had we kept the original [`add_provenance`](https://provsql.org/doxygen-sql/html/group__table__management.html#ga00f0d0b04b2b693c974e72aaf095cb3b) setup with each row as an independent input gate, the same query would have given `1 - (1 - 0.40) × (1 - 0.30) = 0.58` instead. The 0.12 gap is the practical effect of telling the engine “these candidates cannot both be true at once”.\n", "\n", "## Step 7: Probabilistic Ranking vs. Threshold Filtering\n", "\n", "Run the conjunctive query under two ranking strategies. First, by probability that *both* species are truly present:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "provsql": {} }, "source": [ "SELECT p.id, p.station, p.date,\n", " ROUND(probability_evaluate(provenance())::numeric, 4) AS prob\n", "FROM detection d1\n", "JOIN detection d2 ON d1.photo_id = d2.photo_id\n", "JOIN photo p ON p.id = d1.photo_id\n", "WHERE d1.species_id = 1 AND d2.species_id = 3\n", "GROUP BY p.id, p.station, p.date\n", "ORDER BY prob DESC, p.id;" ], "outputs": [] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "Second, by raw confidence threshold (every contributing detection must score at least 0.5):" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "provsql": {} }, "source": [ "SELECT DISTINCT p.id, p.station, p.date\n", "FROM detection d1\n", "JOIN detection d2 ON d1.photo_id = d2.photo_id\n", "JOIN photo p ON p.id = d1.photo_id\n", "WHERE d1.species_id = 1 AND d2.species_id = 3\n", " AND d1.confidence >= 0.5 AND d2.confidence >= 0.5\n", "ORDER BY p.id;" ], "outputs": [] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "Photo 5 is missed by thresholding (every individual candidate there scores below 0.5) but ranks reasonably under [`probability_evaluate`](https://provsql.org/doxygen-sql/html/group__probability.html#gabffa40fef0e37a75d39d4c39c4a1ec0f), because the weak deer candidates in several boxes plus the weak fox candidates combine into a non-trivial probability that *some* deer and *some* fox are truly there. Conversely, a photo whose top candidates only barely cross 0.5 passes the threshold but ends up low in the probability ranking.\n", "\n", "## Step 8: Absence Constraint with `EXCEPT`\n", "\n", "Find photos that contain a Red Deer but no Domestic Dog (`species_id` 13). `EXCEPT` is implemented in ProvSQL via the ⊖ (monus) operator on the provenance circuit:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "provsql": {} }, "source": [ "SELECT p.id, p.station, p.date,\n", " ROUND(probability_evaluate(provenance())::numeric, 4) AS prob\n", "FROM (\n", " SELECT photo_id FROM detection WHERE species_id = 1\n", " EXCEPT\n", " SELECT photo_id FROM detection WHERE species_id = 13\n", ") t\n", "JOIN photo p ON p.id = t.photo_id\n", "GROUP BY p.id, p.station, p.date\n", "ORDER BY prob DESC, p.id;" ], "outputs": [] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "Photos that contain a dog still appear in the output – `EXCEPT` is *not* a hard filter. Photo 9, with a high-confidence dog detection, ranks lower because the monus discounts strongly. Photo 14, where the dog detection has very low confidence, ranks higher: it is *probably* in the result, but not certainly. ProvSQL preserves both possibilities in the circuit and lets [`probability_evaluate`](https://provsql.org/doxygen-sql/html/group__probability.html#gabffa40fef0e37a75d39d4c39c4a1ec0f) weigh them.\n", "\n", "## Step 9: Multi-Condition Query via a CTE\n", "\n", "Combine Steps 7 and 8: photos with both Red Deer and Red Fox, with no Domestic Dog, ranked by probability. The query has three logical layers (co-occurrence, absence, ranking) and reads naturally as a CTE:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "provsql": {} }, "source": [ "WITH deer_and_fox AS (\n", " SELECT d1.photo_id\n", " FROM detection d1\n", " JOIN detection d2 ON d1.photo_id = d2.photo_id\n", " WHERE d1.species_id = 1 AND d2.species_id = 3\n", " GROUP BY d1.photo_id\n", "),\n", "no_dogs AS (\n", " SELECT photo_id FROM deer_and_fox\n", " EXCEPT\n", " SELECT photo_id FROM detection WHERE species_id = 13\n", ")\n", "SELECT p.id, p.station, p.date,\n", " ROUND(probability_evaluate(provenance())::numeric, 4) AS prob\n", "FROM no_dogs t\n", "JOIN photo p ON p.id = t.photo_id\n", "ORDER BY prob DESC, p.id;" ], "outputs": [] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "ProvSQL’s planner hook fires on the expanded query: CTEs are inlined and provenance propagates through them transparently. The same answer can be written with nested subqueries; the CTE form is purely a readability choice.\n", "\n", "Step 10: Expected Species Counts with [`expected`](https://provsql.org/doxygen-sql/html/group__probability.html#ga7124b41224adc29ff5405d5ad6db277e) ———————————————————–\n", "\n", "How many distinct detections do we *expect* to be true positives in each photo?" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "provsql": {} }, "source": [ "SELECT p.id, p.station,\n", " ROUND(expected(COUNT(*))::numeric, 4) AS exp_detections\n", "FROM detection d\n", "JOIN photo p ON p.id = d.photo_id\n", "GROUP BY p.id, p.station\n", "ORDER BY exp_detections DESC, p.id;" ], "outputs": [] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "By linearity of expectation, `expected(COUNT(*))` over a group is $\\sum_i P(\\text{detection}_i \\text{ is true})$. The same linearity applies to `SUM` aggregates: the expected total confidence mass per photo:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "provsql": {} }, "source": [ "SELECT p.id, p.station,\n", " ROUND(expected(SUM(d.confidence))::numeric, 4) AS exp_total_conf\n", "FROM detection d\n", "JOIN photo p ON p.id = d.photo_id\n", "GROUP BY p.id, p.station\n", "ORDER BY exp_total_conf DESC, p.id;" ], "outputs": [] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "Both queries use ProvSQL’s [`expected`](https://provsql.org/doxygen-sql/html/group__probability.html#ga7124b41224adc29ff5405d5ad6db277e) operator, which computes the expected value of a SQL aggregate over the probabilistic database defined by the per-row probabilities set in Step 6. Photos with many high-confidence detections rank highest on both metrics.\n", "\n", "## Step 11: Materialising a Subset with `INSERT … SELECT`\n", "\n", "Copying provenance-tracked rows into another **provenance-tracked** table preserves their lineage: the inserted rows keep their source tokens rather than getting fresh ones. Collect the high-confidence detections into a `confident_detections` table – enable provenance on the target *first*, then populate it with `INSERT … SELECT`:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "provsql": {} }, "source": [ "CREATE TABLE confident_detections (\n", " photo_id integer,\n", " bbox_id integer,\n", " species_id integer,\n", " confidence double precision);\n", "SELECT add_provenance('confident_detections');\n", "\n", "INSERT INTO confident_detections (photo_id, bbox_id, species_id, confidence)\n", "SELECT photo_id, bbox_id, species_id, confidence\n", "FROM detection\n", "WHERE confidence >= 0.9;" ], "outputs": [] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "Each inserted row inherits the provenance token of the `detection` row it came from, so a probability computed over `confident_detections` matches the one over the original row – the lineage followed the data:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "provsql": {} }, "source": [ "SELECT photo_id, species_id, confidence,\n", " ROUND(probability_evaluate(provenance())::numeric, 4) AS prob\n", "FROM confident_detections\n", "ORDER BY photo_id, species_id;" ], "outputs": [] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "**Note:**\n", "\n", "> The target table must be provenance-tracked before the insert. Inserting provenance-tracked rows into an *untracked* table drops the lineage, with a warning; use [`add_provenance`](https://provsql.org/doxygen-sql/html/group__table__management.html#ga00f0d0b04b2b693c974e72aaf095cb3b) on the target first (or `CREATE TABLE … AS SELECT`, which carries provenance through directly).\n", "\n", "## Step 12: Unidentified Detections – Three Kinds of “Not”\n", "\n", "Two detections in the archive have **no species assignment**: the classifier saw an animal but could not identify it, and `species_id` is NULL (photo 5 at Loch Torridon, confidence 0.60, and photo 9 at Glen Affric, confidence 0.50). NULLs make the three natural ways of asking “species detected at Loch Torridon but *not* at Glen Affric” genuinely different questions – in SQL itself, and therefore in the provenance and probabilities ProvSQL computes. Station names live in the *untracked* `photo` table; joining it in restricts to a station without touching the provenance (an untracked join partner contributes the neutral 1, as in Step 3).\n", "\n", "First, `EXCEPT`. SQL set difference matches tuples *syntactically*: two NULLs count as the same value, so Loch Torridon’s unidentified sighting is discounted by Glen Affric’s:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "provsql": {} }, "source": [ "SELECT species_id,\n", " ROUND(probability_evaluate(provenance())::numeric, 4) AS prob\n", "FROM (\n", " SELECT species_id FROM detection d\n", " JOIN photo p ON d.photo_id = p.id\n", " WHERE p.station = 'Loch Torridon'\n", " EXCEPT\n", " SELECT species_id FROM detection d\n", " JOIN photo p ON d.photo_id = p.id\n", " WHERE p.station = 'Glen Affric'\n", ") t\n", "ORDER BY species_id NULLS LAST;" ], "outputs": [] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "The NULL row comes out at probability $0.60 \\times (1 - 0.50) = 0.30$: an unidentified animal was seen at Loch Torridon *and* the Glen Affric unidentified detection is a false positive.\n", "\n", "Second, `NOT IN`. Under SQL’s three-valued logic, `x NOT IN Q` is *unknown* – and therefore not an answer – as soon as `Q` contains a NULL, whatever `x` is. A single unidentified sighting at Glen Affric poisons the certification of **every** species:" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "provsql": {} }, "source": [ "SELECT species_id,\n", " ROUND(probability_evaluate(provenance())::numeric, 4) AS prob\n", "FROM (\n", " SELECT DISTINCT species_id\n", " FROM (SELECT d.species_id FROM detection d\n", " JOIN photo p ON d.photo_id = p.id\n", " WHERE p.station = 'Loch Torridon'\n", " AND d.species_id NOT IN (SELECT d2.species_id FROM detection d2\n", " JOIN photo p2 ON d2.photo_id = p2.id\n", " WHERE p2.station = 'Glen Affric')) lt\n", ") t\n", "ORDER BY species_id NULLS LAST;" ], "outputs": [] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "Every probability is exactly half its `NOT EXISTS` counterpart below: each answer now carries the extra factor “the Glen Affric unidentified detection is a false positive” (probability 0.50). The NULL row itself drops to essentially 0 – a NULL can only pass `NOT IN` against an empty set, i.e. in the worlds where *no* Glen Affric detection at all is a true positive.\n", "\n", "Third, `NOT EXISTS` with an explicit equality. `d2.species_id = d.species_id` is never *true* when either side is NULL, so the unidentified sightings are simply ignored: Glen Affric’s removes nothing, and Loch Torridon’s own NULL row survives at its full detection probability (0.60):" ] }, { "cell_type": "code", "execution_count": null, "metadata": { "provsql": {} }, "source": [ "SELECT species_id,\n", " ROUND(probability_evaluate(provenance())::numeric, 4) AS prob\n", "FROM (\n", " SELECT DISTINCT species_id\n", " FROM (SELECT d.species_id FROM detection d\n", " JOIN photo p ON d.photo_id = p.id\n", " WHERE p.station = 'Loch Torridon'\n", " AND NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM detection d2\n", " JOIN photo p2 ON d2.photo_id = p2.id\n", " WHERE p2.station = 'Glen Affric'\n", " AND d2.species_id = d.species_id)) lt\n", ") t\n", "ORDER BY species_id NULLS LAST;" ], "outputs": [] }, { "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ "Three idioms, three different answers – matching what vanilla SQL returns on each query, with possible-worlds-correct probabilities on top. The general rules behind this behavior (which comparisons treat NULLs as unknown, where SQL switches to syntactic matching, and what that means for provenance circuits) are spelled out in [the NULL semantics chapter](https://provsql.org/docs/user/nulls.html)." ] } ] }