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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
12310
Venue
VLDB
Year
2020
Pagerank
6.7168614e-05
Overall Rank
4,412 | 69.74%
DOI
10.14778/3407790.3407831

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BibTeX Citation

@article{jin_vldb20,
        title = {{Auto-Transform: Learning-to-Transform by Patterns}},
        author = {Jin, Zhongjun and He, Yeye and Chaudhuri, Surajit},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '20},
        volume = {13},
        number = {11},
        pages = {2368--2381},
        doi = {10.14778/3407790.3407831},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3407790.3407831},
        year = {2020}
}

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30 SCOPE: Easy and Efficient Parallel Processing of Massive Data Sets 2008 VLDB 0.00051174276
94 Potter's Wheel: An Interactive Data Cleaning System 2001 VLDB 0.00034616103
112 HoloClean: Holistic Data Repairs with Probabilistic Inference 2017 VLDB 0.00032801121
141 Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models 2021 VLDB 0.0002964847
159 CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies 2004 SIGMOD 0.00028129426
185 A Cost-Based Model and Effective Heuristic for Repairing Constraints by Value Modification 2005 SIGMOD 0.00026231189
376 Discovering Denial Constraints 2013 VLDB 0.00019677674
432 Mining Database Structure; Or, How to Build a Data Quality Browser 2002 SIGMOD 0.00018572055
533 Improving Data Quality: Consistency and Accuracy 2007 VLDB 0.0001705859
647 Discovering Data Quality Rules 2008 VLDB 0.00015334666
661 Don’t be SCAREd: Use SCalable Automatic REpairing with Maximal Likelihood and Bounded Changes 2013 SIGMOD 0.0001519162
946 HoloDetect: Few-Shot Learning for Error Detection 2019 SIGMOD 0.00013054126
1,101 KATARA: A Data Cleaning System Powered by Knowledge Bases and Crowdsourcing 2015 SIGMOD 0.00012168934
1,160 BlinkFill: Semi-supervised Programming By Example for Syntactic String Transformations 2016 VLDB 0.00011883163
1,165 Foofah: Transforming Data By Example 2017 SIGMOD 0.00011860616
1,351 Detecting Data Errors: Where are we and what needs to be done? 2016 VLDB 0.00011064851
1,866 Predictive Interaction for Data Transformation 2015 CIDR 9.5914583e-05
1,939 iMAP: Discovering Complex Semantic Matches between Database Schemas 2004 SIGMOD 9.4490491e-05
2,123 Discovery of Genuine Functional Dependencies from Relational Data with Missing Values 2018 VLDB 9.1372798e-05
2,223 Sato: Contextual Semantic Type Detection in Tables 2020 VLDB 8.9189986e-05
2,290 ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples 2020 SIGMOD 8.799251e-05
2,297 Raha: A Configuration-Free Error Detection System 2019 SIGMOD 8.7897221e-05
2,728 Uni-Detect: A Unified Approach to Automated Error Detection in Tables 2019 SIGMOD 8.1995954e-05
2,978 Transform-Data-by-Example (TDE): An Extensible Search Engine for Data Transformations 2018 VLDB 7.9030989e-05
2,980 Auto-Join: Joining Tables by Leveraging Transformations 2017 VLDB 7.8975073e-05
3,147 Auto-Detect: Data-Driven Error Detection in Tables 2018 SIGMOD 7.7077175e-05
4,525 SEMA-JOIN: Joining Semantically-Related Tables Using Big Table Corpora 2015 VLDB 6.6456999e-05
4,642 Data Auditor: Exploring Data Quality and Semantics using Pattern Tableaux 2010 VLDB 6.5908277e-05
5,268 ANMAT: Automatic Knowledge Discovery and Error Detection through Pattern Functional Dependencies 2019 SIGMOD 6.2923403e-05
6,436 Synthesizing Type-Detection Logic for Rich Semantic Data Types using Open-source Code 2018 SIGMOD 5.8793793e-05
7,078 Transform-Data-by-Example (TDE): Extensible Data Transformation in Excel 2018 SIGMOD 5.7095504e-05
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