Database Paper Browser

Back to papers

CAPE: Explaining Outliers by Counterbalancing

Summary: Explains surprising aggregation outcomes by counterbalancing with opposite-direction outliers. Defines coarse aggregate regression patterns (ARPs) and presents an efficient algorithm to surface counterbalances as explanations. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
11872
Venue
VLDB
Year
2019
Pagerank
5.6704051e-05
Overall Rank
5,132 | 64.34%
DOI
10.14778/3352063.3352071

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
5,918 Banzhaf Values for Facts in Query Answering 2024 SIGMOD 5.2688869e-05
6,565 Toward Interpretable and Actionable Data Analysis with Explanations and Causality 2022 VLDB 5.0033542e-05
9,697 ExTuNe: Explaining Tuple Non-conformance 2020 SIGMOD 4.2981069e-05
9,708 Outlier Summarization via Human Interpretable Rules 2024 VLDB 4.2951473e-05
10,029 Outliers: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 2026 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,269 Database Views as Explanations for Relational Deep Learning 2026 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
Previous Page 1 / 1 Next

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
31 Provenance Semirings 2007 PODS 0.00078516827
213 Scorpion: Explaining Away Outliers in Aggregate Queries 2013 VLDB 0.0003371037
943 A Formal Approach to Finding Explanations for Database Queries 2014 SIGMOD 0.00015140995
5,192 Going Beyond Provenance: Explaining Query Answers with Pattern-based Counterbalances 2019 SIGMOD 5.6324589e-05
Previous Page 1 / 1 Next

Semantically Similar Papers