Guided Exploration of Data Summaries

Summary: Formalizes Eda4Sum: guided, sequential data summarization yielding connected, k-uniform, diverse subsets to maximize cumulative utility. Introduces Top1Sum (greedy per-step) and RLSum (DRL-based policy); experiments on three large datasets show superiority over one-shot and EDA baselines, highlighting scalability and need for domain guidance. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12868
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 5.7278883e-05
Overall Rank: 7,003 | 51.96%
DOI: 10.14778/3538598.3538603

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Authors

1. Brit Youngmann (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
2. Sihem Amer-Yahia (CNRS; Université Grenoble Alpes)
3. Aurelien Personnaz (CNRS; Université Grenoble Alpes)

BibTeX Citation

@article{youngmann_vldb22,
        title = {{Guided Exploration of Data Summaries}},
        author = {Youngmann, Brit and Amer-Yahia, Sihem and Personnaz, Aurelien},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '22},
        volume = {15},
        number = {9},
        pages = {1798--1807},
        doi = {10.14778/3538598.3538603},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3538598.3538603},
        year = {2022}
}

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
700	Explaining differences in multidimensional aggregates	1999	VLDB	0.00014871032
858	Interpretable and Informative Explanations of Outcomes	2015	VLDB	0.0001356511
915	Intelligent Rollups in Multidimensional OLAP Data	2001	VLDB	0.00013243386
986	Effortless Data Exploration with zenvisage: An Expressive and Interactive Visual Analytics System	2017	VLDB	0.0001281777
1,454	Diversifying Top-K Results	2012	VLDB	0.00010739504
2,058	Automatically Generating Data Exploration Sessions Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	2020	SIGMOD	9.2480248e-05
2,259	Top-k Bounded Diversification	2012	SIGMOD	8.8529269e-05
2,382	The Generalized MDL Approach for Summarization	2002	VLDB	8.6603462e-05
3,407	Quotient Cube: How to Summarize the Semantics of a Data Cube	2002	VLDB	7.4391131e-05
4,204	MDL Summarization with Holes	2005	VLDB	6.834169e-05
4,420	Optimization for Active Learning-based Interactive Database Exploration	2019	VLDB	6.7132724e-05
4,631	Interactive Summarization and Exploration of Top Aggregate Query Answers	2018	VLDB	6.595034e-05
4,758	Constructing and Exploring Composite Items	2010	SIGMOD	6.521122e-05
6,039	Guided Exploration of User Groups	2020	VLDB	5.9990875e-05
11,672	Exploring Ratings in Subjective Databases	2021	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,806	CONCIERGE: Improving Constrained Search Results by Data Melioration	2020	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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