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Chimera: Large-Scale Classification using Machine Learning, Rules, and Crowdsourcing

Summary: Chimera blends learning, rules, and crowdsourcing to classify millions of products into 5000+ types at Walmart. At scale, crowdsourcing must complement learning and rules, with analysts authoring thousands of rules—lessons for scalable data management. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
10813
Venue
VLDB
Year
2014
Pagerank
0.00010795718
Overall Rank
1,716 | 88.07%
DOI
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4,918 Top-k Sorting Under Partial Order Information 2018 SIGMOD 5.8282325e-05
6,111 Why Big Data Industrial Systems Need Rules and What We Can Do About It 2015 SIGMOD 5.2049579e-05
8,362 Minimizing Efforts in Validating Crowd Answers 2015 SIGMOD 4.5366717e-05
8,694 Managing General and Individual Knowledge in Crowd Mining Applications 2015 CIDR 4.4661379e-05
8,712 ANN Softmax: Acceleration of Extreme Classification Training 2022 VLDB 4.4626362e-05
9,964 Classifier Construction Under Budget Constraints 2022 SIGMOD 4.2269436e-05
11,581 MC3: A System for Minimization of Classifier Construction Cost 2020 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
11,595 Minimization of Classifier Construction Cost for Search Queries 2020 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
11,611 CONCIERGE: Improving Constrained Search Results by Data Melioration 2020 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
11,627 Exploiting Domain Knowledge to address Multi-Class Imbalance and a Heterogeneous Feature Space in Classification Tasks for Manufacturing Data 2020 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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643 Corleone: Hands-Off Crowdsourcing for Entity Matching 2014 SIGMOD 0.00018754451
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