Cornet: Learning Spreadsheet Formatting Rules By Example

Summary: Automatically synthesize spreadsheet conditional-formatting rules from one or two formatted examples using a hybrid pipeline: symbolic rule enumeration (semi-supervised clustering + iterative decision-tree learning) plus a neural ranker. Demonstrated as an Excel add-in that interactively suggests accurate CF rules, eliminating manual rule authoring. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13264
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
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Overall Rank: 13,195 | 8.21%
DOI: 10.14778/3611540.3611620

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