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Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models

Summary: Ditto uses pre-trained transformers as sequence-pair classifiers for entity matching, beating SOTA by up to 29% F1. Adds domain highlighting, input-length summarization, and hard-example augmentation to boost with fewer labels; on 789k/412k records, Ditto reaches 96.5% F1. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
12571
Venue
VLDB
Year
2021
Pagerank
0.00033354456
Overall Rank
219 | 98.48%
DOI
10.14778/3421424.3421431

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8,158 Deep Transfer Learning for Multi-source Entity Linkage via Domain Adaptation 2022 VLDB 4.5701678e-05
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
265 CrowdER: Crowdsourcing Entity Resolution 2012 VLDB 0.00029904018
266 Human-powered Sorts and Joins 2012 VLDB 0.00029884758
293 Deep Learning for Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration 2018 SIGMOD 0.00028661817
318 Evaluation of entity resolution approaches on real-world match problems 2010 VLDB 0.00027850417
641 Corleone: Hands-Off Crowdsourcing for Entity Matching 2014 SIGMOD 0.00018759417
705 Magellan: Toward Building Entity Matching Management Systems 2016 VLDB 0.00017779048
740 Distributed Representations of Tuples for Entity Resolution 2018 VLDB 0.00017358024
1,338 Entity Matching: How Similar Is Similar 2011 VLDB 0.00012501156
1,821 Synthesizing Entity Matching Rules by Examples 2018 VLDB 0.00010406856
2,758 A Comprehensive Benchmark Framework for Active Learning Methods in Entity Matching 2020 SIGMOD 8.1668285e-05
3,568 NADEEF/ER: Generic and Interactive Entity Resolution 2014 SIGMOD 6.9588883e-05
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