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Auto-Transform: Learning-to-Transform by Patterns

Summary: Auto-Transform introduces transform-by-patterns (TBP): learning data transformations from patterns in large, cross-domain column pairs, without input/output examples. Multilingual, pattern-based harvesting yields transformations for data repairs and ETL automation, outperforming transform-by-example methods. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
12122
Venue
VLDB
Year
2020
Pagerank
5.7011825e-05
Overall Rank
5,096 | 64.55%
DOI
10.14778/3407790.3407831

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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
10,595 Optimized Batch Prompting for Cost-effective LLMs 2025 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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11,103 LucidScript: Bottom-up Standardization for Data Preparation 2024 VLDB 4.1945683e-05
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22 SCOPE: Easy and Efficient Parallel Processing of Massive Data Sets 2008 VLDB 0.0008456613
112 Potter's Wheel: An Interactive Data Cleaning System 2001 VLDB 0.00047045036
192 HoloClean: Holistic Data Repairs with Probabilistic Inference 2017 VLDB 0.00035728858
221 Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models 2021 VLDB 0.00033121824
224 CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies 2004 SIGMOD 0.00032746205
265 A Cost-Based Model and Effective Heuristic for Repairing Constraints by Value Modification 2005 SIGMOD 0.00029763412
475 Mining Database Structure; Or, How to Build a Data Quality Browser 2002 SIGMOD 0.00022303253
555 Discovering Denial Constraints 2013 VLDB 0.00020254908
623 Improving Data Quality: Consistency and Accuracy 2007 VLDB 0.00018996374
732 Discovering Data Quality Rules 2008 VLDB 0.00017465093
881 Don’t be SCAREd: Use SCalable Automatic REpairing with Maximal Likelihood and Bounded Changes 2013 SIGMOD 0.00015661103
1,267 Foofah: Transforming Data By Example 2017 SIGMOD 0.00012936483
1,337 HoloDetect: Few-Shot Learning for Error Detection 2019 SIGMOD 0.00012497164
1,469 BlinkFill: Semi-supervised Programming By Example for Syntactic String Transformations 2016 VLDB 0.00011836053
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
2,097 Predictive Interaction for Data Transformation 2015 CIDR 9.5489822e-05
2,158 Uni-Detect: A Unified Approach to Automated Error Detection in Tables 2019 SIGMOD 9.4141354e-05
2,174 iMAP: Discovering Complex Semantic Matches between Database Schemas 2004 SIGMOD 9.3672342e-05
2,506 Auto-Detect: Data-Driven Error Detection in Tables 2018 SIGMOD 8.6335464e-05
2,574 Discovery of Genuine Functional Dependencies from Relational Data with Missing Values 2018 VLDB 8.5173637e-05
2,888 Sato: Contextual Semantic Type Detection in Tables 2020 VLDB 7.9594996e-05
2,968 Raha: A Configuration-Free Error Detection System 2019 SIGMOD 7.7985097e-05
3,140 ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples 2020 SIGMOD 7.4841763e-05
3,478 Transform-Data-by-Example (TDE): An Extensible Search Engine for Data Transformations 2018 VLDB 7.054159e-05
3,735 Auto-Join: Joining Tables by Leveraging Transformations 2017 VLDB 6.8061318e-05
4,850 SEMA-JOIN: Joining Semantically-Related Tables Using Big Table Corpora 2015 VLDB 5.8768452e-05
4,929 Data Auditor: Exploring Data Quality and Semantics using Pattern Tableaux 2010 VLDB 5.8217296e-05
5,205 ANMAT: Automatic Knowledge Discovery and Error Detection through Pattern Functional Dependencies 2019 SIGMOD 5.630869e-05
6,416 Synthesizing Type-Detection Logic for Rich Semantic Data Types using Open-source Code 2018 SIGMOD 5.072267e-05
8,042 Transform-Data-by-Example (TDE): Extensible Data Transformation in Excel 2018 SIGMOD 4.5994569e-05
8,499 Synthesizing Mapping Relationships Using Table Corpus 2017 SIGMOD 4.4975851e-05
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