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Transform-Data-by-Example (TDE): An Extensible Search Engine for Data Transformations

Summary: Transform-Data-by-Example (TDE) is an extensible search engine that indexes 50K transformation functions from code, DLLs, web services and mapping tables; users provide input/output examples to synthesize programs. On 200 tasks, TDE reaches 72% correctness, outperforms existing systems; Excel beta and Power BI integration extend practical adoption. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
11609
Venue
VLDB
Year
2018
Pagerank
7.054159e-05
Overall Rank
3,478 | 75.81%
DOI
10.14778/3231751.3231766

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3,252 Auto-Suggest: Learning-to-Recommend Data Preparation Steps Using Data Science Notebooks 2020 SIGMOD 7.3178277e-05
5,096 Auto-Transform: Learning-to-Transform by Patterns 2020 VLDB 5.7011825e-05
5,242 Towards Benchmarking Feature Type Inference for AutoML Platforms 2021 SIGMOD 5.6074743e-05
5,275 Auto-Tables: Synthesizing Multi-Step Transformations to Relationalize Tables without Using Examples 2023 VLDB 5.5905507e-05
5,280 Explaining Dataset Changes for Semantic Data Versioning with Explain-Da-V 2023 VLDB 5.5896735e-05
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9,371 Auto-Formula: Recommend Formulas in Spreadsheets using Contrastive Learning for Table Representations 2024 SIGMOD 4.3480692e-05
9,399 TabulaX: Leveraging Large Language Models for Multi-Class Table Transformations 2025 VLDB 4.3441378e-05
10,598 Auto-Prep: Holistic Prediction of Data Preparation Steps for Self-Service Business Intelligence 2025 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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11,178 LinCQA: Faster Consistent Query Answering with Linear Time Guarantees 2023 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
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11,343 SPINE: Scaling up Programming-by-Negative-Example for String Filtering and Transformation 2022 SIGMOD 4.1945683e-05
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420 InfoGather: Entity Augmentation and Attribute Discovery By Holistic Matching with Web Tables 2012 SIGMOD 0.00023719065
1,267 Foofah: Transforming Data By Example 2017 SIGMOD 0.00012936483
1,469 BlinkFill: Semi-supervised Programming By Example for Syntactic String Transformations 2016 VLDB 0.00011836053
1,537 Google's Deep-Web Crawl 2008 VLDB 0.00011465704
2,097 Predictive Interaction for Data Transformation 2015 CIDR 9.5489822e-05
2,506 Auto-Detect: Data-Driven Error Detection in Tables 2018 SIGMOD 8.6335464e-05
3,735 Auto-Join: Joining Tables by Leveraging Transformations 2017 VLDB 6.8061318e-05
6,416 Synthesizing Type-Detection Logic for Rich Semantic Data Types using Open-source Code 2018 SIGMOD 5.072267e-05
8,499 Synthesizing Mapping Relationships Using Table Corpus 2017 SIGMOD 4.4975851e-05
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