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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
12123
Venue
VLDB
Year
2020
Pagerank
5.6960764e-05
Overall Rank
5,096 | 64.59%
DOI
10.14778/3407790.3407831

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5,283 Explaining Dataset Changes for Semantic Data Versioning with Explain-Da-V 2023 VLDB 5.5843052e-05
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9,381 Auto-Formula: Recommend Formulas in Spreadsheets using Contrastive Learning for Table Representations 2024 SIGMOD 4.343902e-05
10,603 Optimized Batch Prompting for Cost-effective LLMs 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
10,606 Auto-Prep: Holistic Prediction of Data Preparation Steps for Self-Service Business Intelligence 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
10,618 Weak-to-Strong Prompts with Lightweight-to-Powerful LLMs for High-Accuracy, Low-Cost, and Explainable Data Transformation 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
11,106 LucidScript: Bottom-up Standardization for Data Preparation 2024 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
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22 SCOPE: Easy and Efficient Parallel Processing of Massive Data Sets 2008 VLDB 0.00084679526
112 Potter's Wheel: An Interactive Data Cleaning System 2001 VLDB 0.00047010908
192 HoloClean: Holistic Data Repairs with Probabilistic Inference 2017 VLDB 0.00035692958
219 Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models 2021 VLDB 0.00033354456
224 CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies 2004 SIGMOD 0.00032743209
268 A Cost-Based Model and Effective Heuristic for Repairing Constraints by Value Modification 2005 SIGMOD 0.00029739054
481 Mining Database Structure; Or, How to Build a Data Quality Browser 2002 SIGMOD 0.000221538
556 Discovering Denial Constraints 2013 VLDB 0.00020214701
621 Improving Data Quality: Consistency and Accuracy 2007 VLDB 0.00018978331
733 Discovering Data Quality Rules 2008 VLDB 0.00017428132
879 Don’t be SCAREd: Use SCalable Automatic REpairing with Maximal Likelihood and Bounded Changes 2013 SIGMOD 0.00015649604
1,266 Foofah: Transforming Data By Example 2017 SIGMOD 0.00012921038
1,340 HoloDetect: Few-Shot Learning for Error Detection 2019 SIGMOD 0.00012492795
1,403 Detecting Data Errors: Where are we and what needs to be done? 2016 VLDB 0.00012180046
1,469 BlinkFill: Semi-supervised Programming By Example for Syntactic String Transformations 2016 VLDB 0.00011831156
1,544 KATARA: A Data Cleaning System Powered by Knowledge Bases and Crowdsourcing 2015 SIGMOD 0.00011438274
2,100 Predictive Interaction for Data Transformation 2015 CIDR 9.5410186e-05
2,161 Uni-Detect: A Unified Approach to Automated Error Detection in Tables 2019 SIGMOD 9.4029915e-05
2,183 iMAP: Discovering Complex Semantic Matches between Database Schemas 2004 SIGMOD 9.3584357e-05
2,507 Auto-Detect: Data-Driven Error Detection in Tables 2018 SIGMOD 8.6254741e-05
2,576 Discovery of Genuine Functional Dependencies from Relational Data with Missing Values 2018 VLDB 8.509121e-05
2,895 Sato: Contextual Semantic Type Detection in Tables 2020 VLDB 7.9539265e-05
2,968 Raha: A Configuration-Free Error Detection System 2019 SIGMOD 7.7964476e-05
3,057 ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples 2020 SIGMOD 7.6458287e-05
3,483 Transform-Data-by-Example (TDE): An Extensible Search Engine for Data Transformations 2018 VLDB 7.0493668e-05
3,738 Auto-Join: Joining Tables by Leveraging Transformations 2017 VLDB 6.8006812e-05
4,849 SEMA-JOIN: Joining Semantically-Related Tables Using Big Table Corpora 2015 VLDB 5.872093e-05
4,932 Data Auditor: Exploring Data Quality and Semantics using Pattern Tableaux 2010 VLDB 5.8163536e-05
5,207 ANMAT: Automatic Knowledge Discovery and Error Detection through Pattern Functional Dependencies 2019 SIGMOD 5.6254804e-05
6,411 Synthesizing Type-Detection Logic for Rich Semantic Data Types using Open-source Code 2018 SIGMOD 5.0675656e-05
8,044 Transform-Data-by-Example (TDE): Extensible Data Transformation in Excel 2018 SIGMOD 4.5950532e-05
8,497 Synthesizing Mapping Relationships Using Table Corpus 2017 SIGMOD 4.49328e-05
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