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: 11405
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 0.00035692958
Overall Rank: 192 | 98.67%
DOI: -

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7,565	PIClean: A Probabilistic and Interactive Data Cleaning System	2019	SIGMOD	4.7048523e-05
7,634	ReStore - Neural Data Completion for Relational Databases	2021	SIGMOD	4.6866388e-05
7,666	Fast Detection of Denial Constraint Violations	2022	VLDB	4.6792751e-05
7,702	ExDRa: Exploratory Data Science on Federated Raw Data	2021	SIGMOD	4.6689015e-05
7,769	ICARUS: Minimizing Human Effort in Iterative Data Completion	2018	VLDB	4.6520279e-05
7,868	Learning Over Dirty Data Without Cleaning	2020	SIGMOD	4.6276013e-05
7,992	Data Civilizer 2.0: A Holistic Framework for Data Preparation and Analytics	2019	VLDB	4.6082565e-05
8,014	The Computation of Optimal Subset Repairs	2020	VLDB	4.6020746e-05
8,096	Saga: A Scalable Framework for Optimizing Data Cleaning Pipelines for Machine Learning Applications	2023	SIGMOD	4.583522e-05
8,125	Automation of Data Prep, ML, and Data Science: New Cure or Snake Oil?	2021	SIGMOD	4.5765541e-05
8,148	Evaluating Top-k Queries with Inconsistency Degrees	2020	VLDB	4.5717374e-05
8,183	SHiFT: An Efficient, Flexible Search Engine for Transfer Learning	2023	VLDB	4.5615358e-05
8,363	Deducing Certain Fixes to Graphs	2019	VLDB	4.5311185e-05
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8,588	Exploratory Training: When Annotators Learn About Data	2023	SIGMOD	4.4853244e-05
8,706	nsDB: Architecting the Next Generation Database by Integrating Neural and Symbolic Systems	2024	VLDB	4.4587004e-05
8,741	Sparcle: Boosting the Accuracy of Data Cleaning Systems through Spatial Awareness	2024	VLDB	4.4520434e-05
8,784	Machine Learning Meets Big Spatial Data	2019	VLDB	4.4473392e-05
8,836	Fast Approximate Denial Constraint Discovery	2023	VLDB	4.4350633e-05
8,839	The Cost of Representation by Subset Repairs	2025	VLDB	4.4346105e-05
9,043	Query-Guided Resolution in Uncertain Databases	2023	SIGMOD	4.3997447e-05
9,053	Selecting Data to Clean for Fact Checking: Minimizing Uncertainty vs. Maximizing Surprise	2019	VLDB	4.3997447e-05
9,072	DataDiff: User-Interpretable Data Transformation Summaries for Collaborative Data Analysis	2018	SIGMOD	4.3975844e-05
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9,247	ZIP: Lazy Imputation during Query Processing	2024	VLDB	4.3648789e-05
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9,576	CoClean: Collaborative Data Cleaning	2020	SIGMOD	4.3207e-05
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9,748	Efficient Differential Dependency Discovery	2024	VLDB	4.2856385e-05
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9,855	In-Database Data Imputation	2024	SIGMOD	4.2652623e-05
9,885	Scalable and Usable Relational Learning With Automatic Language Bias	2021	SIGMOD	4.2580321e-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
268	A Cost-Based Model and Effective Heuristic for Repairing Constraints by Value Modification	2005	SIGMOD	0.00029739054
321	Record Linkage: Similarity Measures and Algorithms	2006	SIGMOD	0.00027524716
488	Data Curation at Scale: The Data Tamer System	2013	CIDR	0.00022029993
556	Discovering Denial Constraints	2013	VLDB	0.00020214701
560	Dependencies Revisited for Improving Data Quality	2008	PODS	0.0002012328
621	Improving Data Quality: Consistency and Accuracy	2007	VLDB	0.00018978331
656	ERACER: A Database Approach for Statistical Inference and Data Cleaning	2010	SIGMOD	0.00018590675
668	Incremental Knowledge Base Construction Using DeepDive	2015	VLDB	0.00018428925
700	Reasoning about Record Matching Rules	2009	VLDB	0.00017927576
799	Entity Resolution: Theory, Practice & Open Challenges	2012	VLDB	0.00016479804
879	Don’t be SCAREd: Use SCalable Automatic REpairing with Maximal Likelihood and Bounded Changes	2013	SIGMOD	0.00015649604
1,012	NADEEF: A Commodity Data Cleaning System	2013	SIGMOD	0.00014638349
1,015	Tuffy: Scaling up Statistical Inference in Markov Logic Networks using an RDBMS	2011	VLDB	0.00014630577
1,044	DimmWitted: A Study of Main-Memory Statistical Analytics	2014	VLDB	0.00014465007
1,160	Towards Certain Fixes with Editing Rules and Master Data	2010	VLDB	0.0001358129
1,197	The LLUNATIC Data-Cleaning Framework	2013	VLDB	0.00013373177
1,214	Truth Finding on the Deep Web: Is the Problem Solved?	2013	VLDB	0.00013246179
1,403	Detecting Data Errors: Where are we and what needs to be done?	2016	VLDB	0.00012180046
1,544	KATARA: A Data Cleaning System Powered by Knowledge Bases and Crowdsourcing	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011438274
1,625	Sampling the Repairs of Functional Dependency Violations under Hard Constraints	2010	VLDB	0.0001109361
3,045	Dichotomies in the Complexity of Preferred Repairs	2015	PODS	7.6618214e-05
3,198	Towards Dependable Data Repairing with Fixing Rules	2014	SIGMOD	7.4029546e-05
3,900	SLiMFast: Guaranteed Results for Data Fusion and Source Reliability	2017	SIGMOD	6.649432e-05

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