Learning and Deducing Temporal Orders

Summary: Infers temporal orders of same-entity attribute values without full timestamps via GATE: a creator–critic loop that couples a deep-ranking model with rule-based currency deduction. The critic validates/deduces extra ordered pairs and feeds augmented labels back until convergence, boosting F‑measure (>80%) and outperforming pure deep learning and rule baselines. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13238
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 11,434 | 21.56%
DOI: 10.14778/3594512.3594524

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Authors

1. Wenfei Fan (Beihang University; Shenzhen University; University of Edinburgh)
2. Resul Tugay (University of Edinburgh)
3. Yaoshu Wang (Shenzhen University)
4. Min Xie (Shenzhen University)
5. Muhammad Asif Ali (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@article{fan_vldb23,
        title = {{Learning and Deducing Temporal Orders}},
        author = {Fan, Wenfei and Tugay, Resul and Wang, Yaoshu and Xie, Min and Ali, Muhammad Asif},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '23},
        volume = {16},
        number = {8},
        pages = {1944--1957},
        doi = {10.14778/3594512.3594524},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3594512.3594524},
        year = {2023}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9,647	Rock: Cleaning Data by Embedding ML in Logic Rules	2024	SIGMOD	5.2430158e-05
11,317	Rock: Cleaning Data with both ML and Logic Rules	2024	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10	Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning	1979	SIGMOD	0.0007727299
33	Consistent Query Answers in Inconsistent Databases	1999	PODS	0.00049907763
141	Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models	2021	VLDB	0.0002964847
376	Discovering Denial Constraints	2013	VLDB	0.00019677674
1,393	Truth Discovery and Copying Detection in a Dynamic World	2009	VLDB	0.00010934682
1,741	Efficient Denial Constraint Discovery with Hydra	2018	VLDB	9.8755846e-05
1,955	Discovery of Approximate (and Exact) Denial Constraints	2020	VLDB	9.4166032e-05
2,685	Approximate Denial Constraints	2020	VLDB	8.2594662e-05
2,829	Linking Temporal Records	2011	VLDB	8.0799603e-05
4,160	The Interaction between Functional Dependencies and Template Dependencies	1980	SIGMOD	6.8622758e-05
4,605	Global Detection of Complex Copying Relationships Between Sources	2010	VLDB	6.6103623e-05
5,166	Determining the Currency of Data	2011	PODS	6.3370824e-05
6,403	Parallel Discrepancy Detection and Incremental Detection	2021	VLDB	5.8859374e-05
7,265	Linking Temporal Records for Profiling Entities	2015	SIGMOD	5.6605087e-05
8,095	Towards Event Prediction in Temporal Graphs	2022	VLDB	5.4877864e-05

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