Explaining Dataset Changes for Semantic Data Versioning with Explain-Da-V

Summary: Explain-Da-V: framework that explains semantic changes between dataset versions by synthesizing concise data-transformation explanations. Proposes validity, generalizability and explainability metrics and empirically outperforms prior transformation-synthesis methods. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13208
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 6.4105738e-05
Overall Rank: 4,990 | 65.77%
DOI: 10.14778/3583140.3583169

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Authors

1. Roee Shraga (Northeastern University)
2. Renée J. Miller (Northeastern University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{shraga_vldb23,
        title = {{Explaining Dataset Changes for Semantic Data Versioning with Explain-Da-V}},
        author = {Shraga, Roee and Miller, Renée J.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '23},
        volume = {16},
        number = {6},
        pages = {1587--1600},
        doi = {10.14778/3583140.3583169},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3583140.3583169},
        year = {2023}
}

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9,505	TabulaX: Leveraging Large Language Models for Multi-Class Table Transformations	2025	VLDB	5.258497e-05
9,780	Discovering Functional Dependencies through Hitting Set Enumeration	2024	SIGMOD	5.2209769e-05
10,287	Shape-Agnostic Table Overlap Discovery: A Maximum Common Subhypergraph Approach	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,399	Retrieve-and-Verify: A Table Context Selection Framework for Accurate Column Annotations	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,711	ChARLES: Change-Aware Recovery of Latent Evolution Semantics in Relational Data	2025	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,867	Weak-to-Strong Prompts with Lightweight-to-Powerful LLMs for High-Accuracy, Low-Cost, and Explainable Data Transformation	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
141	Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models	2021	VLDB	0.0002964847
729	Functional Dependency Discovery: An Experimental Evaluation of Seven Algorithms	2015	VLDB	0.00014539421
749	Data Lake Management: Challenges and Opportunities	2019	VLDB	0.00014379989
779	JOSIE: Overlap Set Similarity Search for Finding Joinable Tables in Data Lakes	2019	SIGMOD	0.00014092047
858	Interpretable and Informative Explanations of Outcomes	2015	VLDB	0.0001356511
881	Meaningful Change Detection in Structured Data	1997	SIGMOD	0.00013430652
1,077	DataHub: Collaborative Data Science & Dataset Version Management at Scale	2015	CIDR	0.00012269438
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
1,349	Principles of Dataset Versioning: Exploring the Recreation/Storage Tradeoff	2015	VLDB	0.00011069122
1,496	Change Detection in Hierarchically Structured Information	1996	SIGMOD	0.00010569165
1,946	OrpheusDB: Bolt-on Versioning for Relational Databases	2017	VLDB	9.4334506e-05
2,216	Open Data Integration	2018	VLDB	8.9374127e-05
2,744	Auto-Suggest: Learning-to-Recommend Data Preparation Steps Using Data Science Notebooks	2020	SIGMOD	8.1781662e-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
3,547	Learning Semantic String Transformations from Examples	2012	VLDB	7.3225973e-05
3,894	Navigating the Data Lake with DATAMARAN: Automatically Extracting Structure from Log Datasets	2018	SIGMOD	7.0417782e-05
4,123	Integrating Data Lake Tables	2023	VLDB	6.8878137e-05
4,412	Auto-Transform: Learning-to-Transform by Patterns	2020	VLDB	6.7168614e-05
4,875	Auto-Pipeline: Synthesizing Complex Data Pipelines By-Target Using Reinforcement Learning and Search	2021	VLDB	6.4689177e-05
5,051	Towards Benchmarking Feature Type Inference for AutoML Platforms	2021	SIGMOD	6.385354e-05
5,435	Exploring Change – A New Dimension of Data Analytics	2019	VLDB	6.2207492e-05
6,461	Explain3D: Explaining Disagreements in Disjoint Datasets	2019	VLDB	5.8718966e-05
6,607	SQUARES: A SQL Synthesizer Using Query Reverse Engineering	2020	VLDB	5.8236702e-05
7,092	FlexER: Flexible Entity Resolution for Multiple Intents	2023	SIGMOD	5.705818e-05
7,325	ADnEV: Cross-Domain Schema Matching using Deep Similarity Matrix Adjustment and Evaluation	2020	VLDB	5.6443833e-05
7,835	TardisDB: Extending SQL to Support Versioning	2021	SIGMOD	5.5354526e-05
8,342	DBChEx: Interactive Exploration of Data and Schema Change	2019	CIDR	5.4484451e-05
9,129	DataDiff: User-Interpretable Data Transformation Summaries for Collaborative Data Analysis	2018	SIGMOD	5.318789e-05

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