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BlinkFill: Semi-supervised Programming By Example for Syntactic String Transformations

Summary: BlinkFill: semi-supervised PBE for syntactic string transformations, using InputDataGraph to capture shared input patterns and guide synthesis. Evaluated on 207 benchmarks, it attains ~41x speedups and uses fewer examples (1.27 vs 1.53) than FlashFill. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
11370
Venue
VLDB
Year
2016
Pagerank
0.00011831156
Overall Rank
1,469 | 89.80%
DOI
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1,266 Foofah: Transforming Data By Example 2017 SIGMOD 0.00012921038
1,895 Baran: Effective Error Correction via a Unified Context Representation and Transfer Learning 2020 VLDB 0.00010174634
2,161 Uni-Detect: A Unified Approach to Automated Error Detection in Tables 2019 SIGMOD 9.4029915e-05
2,968 Raha: A Configuration-Free Error Detection System 2019 SIGMOD 7.7964476e-05
3,254 Auto-Suggest: Learning-to-Recommend Data Preparation Steps Using Data Science Notebooks 2020 SIGMOD 7.3172324e-05
3,483 Transform-Data-by-Example (TDE): An Extensible Search Engine for Data Transformations 2018 VLDB 7.0493668e-05
3,738 Auto-Join: Joining Tables by Leveraging Transformations 2017 VLDB 6.8006812e-05
5,096 Auto-Transform: Learning-to-Transform by Patterns 2020 VLDB 5.6960764e-05
5,203 Pattern Functional Dependencies for Data Cleaning 2020 VLDB 5.628087e-05
5,283 Explaining Dataset Changes for Semantic Data Versioning with Explain-Da-V 2023 VLDB 5.5843052e-05
5,389 Auto-Pipeline: Synthesizing Complex Data Pipelines By-Target Using Reinforcement Learning and Search 2021 VLDB 5.5339832e-05
6,235 New Trends on Exploratory Methods for Data Analytics 2017 VLDB 5.1386078e-05
6,736 Data Migration using Datalog Program Synthesis 2020 VLDB 4.9417961e-05
6,798 DTT: An Example-Driven Tabular Transformer for Joinability by Leveraging Large Language Models 2024 SIGMOD 4.9186164e-05
6,994 Web Data Extraction using Hybrid Program Synthesis: A Combination of Top-down and Bottom-up Inference 2020 SIGMOD 4.8634654e-05
8,044 Transform-Data-by-Example (TDE): Extensible Data Transformation in Excel 2018 SIGMOD 4.5950532e-05
8,104 Automated Migration of Hierarchical Data to Relational Tables using Programming-by-Example 2018 VLDB 4.5815095e-05
8,338 Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples 2019 SIGMOD 4.538469e-05
9,019 Data-Driven Insight Synthesis for Multi-Dimensional Data 2024 VLDB 4.4052498e-05
9,405 TabulaX: Leveraging Large Language Models for Multi-Class Table Transformations 2025 VLDB 4.3399748e-05
10,606 Auto-Prep: Holistic Prediction of Data Preparation Steps for Self-Service Business Intelligence 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
10,618 Weak-to-Strong Prompts with Lightweight-to-Powerful LLMs for High-Accuracy, Low-Cost, and Explainable Data Transformation 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
11,345 SPINE: Scaling up Programming-by-Negative-Example for String Filtering and Transformation 2022 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
112 Potter's Wheel: An Interactive Data Cleaning System 2001 VLDB 0.00047010908
1,316 Harvesting Relational Tables from Lists on the Web 2009 VLDB 0.00012616422
2,100 Predictive Interaction for Data Transformation 2015 CIDR 9.5410186e-05
3,233 Learning Semantic String Transformations from Examples 2012 VLDB 7.331883e-05
3,745 TEGRA: Table Extraction by Global Record Alignment 2015 SIGMOD 6.7907837e-05
4,691 DataXFormer: An Interactive Data Transformation Tool 2015 SIGMOD 5.9876184e-05
4,849 SEMA-JOIN: Joining Semantically-Related Tables Using Big Table Corpora 2015 VLDB 5.872093e-05
5,938 DataXFormer: Leveraging the Web for Semantic Transformations 2015 CIDR 5.2605665e-05
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