HoloClean: Holistic Data Repairs with Probabilistic Inference

Summary: HoloClean couples constraint-driven and statistical data repair via automatic probabilistic-program generation from dirty data. Scalable inference over millions of tuples; precision ~90%, recall ~76%, F1 >2x vs state-of-the-art. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 11404
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 0.00035728858
Overall Rank: 192 | 98.67%
DOI: -

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7,407	Intermittent Query Processing	2019	VLDB	4.7373205e-05
7,564	PIClean: A Probabilistic and Interactive Data Cleaning System	2019	SIGMOD	4.7093702e-05
7,605	The Computation of Optimal Subset Repairs	2020	VLDB	4.697534e-05
7,634	ReStore - Neural Data Completion for Relational Databases	2021	SIGMOD	4.6911382e-05
7,667	Fast Detection of Denial Constraint Violations	2022	VLDB	4.683767e-05
7,704	ExDRa: Exploratory Data Science on Federated Raw Data	2021	SIGMOD	4.6733838e-05
7,766	ICARUS: Minimizing Human Effort in Iterative Data Completion	2018	VLDB	4.6564959e-05
7,867	Learning Over Dirty Data Without Cleaning	2020	SIGMOD	4.6320452e-05
8,000	Data Civilizer 2.0: A Holistic Framework for Data Preparation and Analytics	2019	VLDB	4.6092803e-05
8,092	Saga: A Scalable Framework for Optimizing Data Cleaning Pipelines for Machine Learning Applications	2023	SIGMOD	4.587921e-05
8,121	Automation of Data Prep, ML, and Data Science: New Cure or Snake Oil?	2021	SIGMOD	4.5809305e-05
8,145	Evaluating Top-k Queries with Inconsistency Degrees	2020	VLDB	4.5761263e-05
8,182	SHiFT: An Efficient, Flexible Search Engine for Transfer Learning	2023	VLDB	4.5659133e-05
8,422	Deducing Certain Fixes to Graphs	2019	VLDB	4.5167705e-05
8,472	Rapidash: Efficient Detection of Constraint Violations	2024	VLDB	4.5036378e-05
8,590	Exploratory Training: When Annotators Learn About Data	2023	SIGMOD	4.4896282e-05
8,716	nsDB: Architecting the Next Generation Database by Integrating Neural and Symbolic Systems	2024	VLDB	4.4618187e-05
8,745	Sparcle: Boosting the Accuracy of Data Cleaning Systems through Spatial Awareness	2024	VLDB	4.456315e-05
8,789	Machine Learning Meets Big Spatial Data	2019	VLDB	4.4509194e-05
8,836	Fast Approximate Denial Constraint Discovery	2023	VLDB	4.4393184e-05
8,840	The Cost of Representation by Subset Repairs	2025	VLDB	4.4388652e-05
9,043	Query-Guided Resolution in Uncertain Databases	2023	SIGMOD	4.4039656e-05
9,054	Selecting Data to Clean for Fact Checking: Minimizing Uncertainty vs. Maximizing Surprise	2019	VLDB	4.4039656e-05
9,076	DataDiff: User-Interpretable Data Transformation Summaries for Collaborative Data Analysis	2018	SIGMOD	4.401804e-05
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9,240	ZIP: Lazy Imputation during Query Processing	2024	VLDB	4.3690661e-05
9,348	GIDCL: A Graph-Enhanced Interpretable Data Cleaning Framework with Large Language Models	2024	SIGMOD	4.3526427e-05
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9,487	Making It Tractable to Catch Duplicates and Conflicts in Graphs	2023	SIGMOD	4.3341665e-05
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9,560	MTSClean: Efficient Constraint-based Cleaning for Multi-Dimensional Time Series Data	2024	VLDB	4.3254416e-05
9,577	CoClean: Collaborative Data Cleaning	2020	SIGMOD	4.3248438e-05
9,673	Don’t Be a Tattle-Tale: Preventing Leakages through Data Dependencies on Access Control Protected Data	2022	VLDB	4.3055474e-05
9,749	Efficient Differential Dependency Discovery	2024	VLDB	4.2897489e-05
9,771	EasyDR: A Human-in-the-loop Error Detection and Repair Platform for Holistic Table Cleaning	2022	VLDB	4.2856106e-05
9,847	Discovering Top-k Relevant and Diversified Rules	2024	SIGMOD	4.2721228e-05
9,849	Reptile: Aggregation-level Explanations for Hierarchical Data	2022	SIGMOD	4.2721228e-05
9,856	In-Database Data Imputation	2024	SIGMOD	4.269353e-05
9,886	Scalable and Usable Relational Learning With Automatic Language Bias	2021	SIGMOD	4.2621158e-05
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 23 of 23 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
265	A Cost-Based Model and Effective Heuristic for Repairing Constraints by Value Modification	2005	SIGMOD	0.00029763412
322	Record Linkage: Similarity Measures and Algorithms	2006	SIGMOD	0.00027518768
489	Data Curation at Scale: The Data Tamer System	2013	CIDR	0.00022030728
555	Discovering Denial Constraints	2013	VLDB	0.00020254908
560	Dependencies Revisited for Improving Data Quality	2008	PODS	0.00020141923
623	Improving Data Quality: Consistency and Accuracy	2007	VLDB	0.00018996374
656	ERACER: A Database Approach for Statistical Inference and Data Cleaning	2010	SIGMOD	0.00018588729
667	Incremental Knowledge Base Construction Using DeepDive	2015	VLDB	0.00018440557
702	Reasoning about Record Matching Rules	2009	VLDB	0.00017918203
814	Entity Resolution: Theory, Practice & Open Challenges	2012	VLDB	0.00016370594
881	Don’t be SCAREd: Use SCalable Automatic REpairing with Maximal Likelihood and Bounded Changes	2013	SIGMOD	0.00015661103
1,012	NADEEF: A Commodity Data Cleaning System	2013	SIGMOD	0.0001464733
1,014	Tuffy: Scaling up Statistical Inference in Markov Logic Networks using an RDBMS	2011	VLDB	0.00014640258
1,044	DimmWitted: A Study of Main-Memory Statistical Analytics	2014	VLDB	0.00014475229
1,159	Towards Certain Fixes with Editing Rules and Master Data	2010	VLDB	0.00013592813
1,197	The LLUNATIC Data-Cleaning Framework	2013	VLDB	0.00013390321
1,211	Truth Finding on the Deep Web: Is the Problem Solved?	2013	VLDB	0.00013257101
1,546	KATARA: A Data Cleaning System Powered by Knowledge Bases and Crowdsourcing	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011446851
1,612	Detecting Data Errors: Where are we and what needs to be done?	2016	VLDB	0.00011142794
1,624	Sampling the Repairs of Functional Dependency Violations under Hard Constraints	2010	VLDB	0.00011099222
3,042	Dichotomies in the Complexity of Preferred Repairs	2015	PODS	7.669374e-05
3,192	Towards Dependable Data Repairing with Fixing Rules	2014	SIGMOD	7.4095761e-05
3,897	SLiMFast: Guaranteed Results for Data Fusion and Source Reliability	2017	SIGMOD	6.6554845e-05

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