Through the Fairness Lens: Experimental Analysis and Evaluation of Entity Matching

Summary: Experimental audit of EM fairness across many matching methods using two social datasets built from public data. Finds disparities when groups overrepresented or names more similar; class imbalance makes PPV/TPR parity best at revealing bias. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13351
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 6.200289e-05
Overall Rank: 5,489 | 62.35%
DOI: 10.14778/3611479.3611525

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Authors

1. Nima Shahbazi (University of Illinois Chicago)
2. Nikola Danevski (University of Rochester)
3. Fatemeh Nargesian (University of Rochester)
4. Abolfazl Asudeh (University of Illinois Chicago)
5. Divesh Srivastava (AT&T)

BibTeX Citation

@article{shahbazi_vldb23,
        title = {{Through the Fairness Lens: Experimental Analysis and Evaluation of Entity Matching}},
        author = {Shahbazi, Nima and Danevski, Nikola and Nargesian, Fatemeh and Asudeh, Abolfazl and Srivastava, Divesh},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '23},
        volume = {16},
        number = {11},
        pages = {3279--3292},
        doi = {10.14778/3611479.3611525},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3611479.3611525},
        year = {2023}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
9,381	Deduplicated Sampling On-Demand	2025	VLDB	5.2755515e-05
9,388	Chameleon: Foundation Models for Fairness-aware Multi-modal Data Augmentation to Enhance Coverage of Minorities	2024	VLDB	5.2755515e-05
10,390	AixelNet: A Pre-trained Model with Table-aware Adaptation for Structured Data Prediction	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,511	On Fair Epsilon Net and Geometric Hitting Set	2026	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,034	RadlER: Deduplicated Sampling On-Demand	2025	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,323	FairEM360: A Suite for Responsible Entity Matching	2024	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
141	Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models	2021	VLDB	0.0002964847
176	Deep Learning for Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration	2018	SIGMOD	0.00027191081
529	Magellan: Toward Building Entity Matching Management Systems	2016	VLDB	0.00017096361
1,248	Entity Matching: How Similar Is Similar	2011	VLDB	0.00011498301
1,465	Synthesizing Entity Matching Rules by Examples	2018	VLDB	0.00010689571
1,597	Designing Fair Ranking Schemes	2019	SIGMOD	0.00010246472
2,120	Comparative Analysis of Approximate Blocking Techniques for Entity Resolution	2016	VLDB	9.1406654e-05
5,631	Tailoring Data Source Distributions for Fairness-aware Data Integration	2021	VLDB	6.1427477e-05
6,824	Fairly Evaluating and Scoring Items in a Data Set	2020	VLDB	5.7623529e-05
7,367	Identifying Insufficient Data Coverage for Ordinal Continuous-Valued Attributes	2021	SIGMOD	5.6319194e-05
9,848	Maximizing Fair Content Spread via Edge Suggestion in Social Networks	2022	VLDB	5.2094004e-05

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