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Scorpion: Explaining Away Outliers in Aggregate Queries

Summary: Scorpion takes user-specified outlier points from aggregate results and derives input predicates that remove those outliers. Defines predicate influence and uses efficient max-influence search to reveal explanations faster than naive search. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
10720
Venue
VLDB
Year
2013
Pagerank
0.0003371037
Overall Rank
213 | 98.53%
DOI
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