PromptEM: Prompt-tuning for Low-resource Generalized Entity Matching

Summary: PromptEM: first low-resource generalized entity matching method using GEM-specific prompt-tuning, improved pseudo-labeling, and efficient self-training to align heterogeneous record formats. Outperforms prior methods on eight real benchmarks in effectiveness and efficiency. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13386
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 5.6942765e-05
Overall Rank: 7,134 | 51.06%
DOI: 10.14778/3565816.3565836

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Authors

1. Pengfei Wang (Zhejiang University)
2. Xiaocan Zeng (Zhejiang University)
3. Lu Chen (Zhejiang University)
4. Fan Ye (Zhejiang University)
5. Yuren Mao (Zhejiang University)
6. Junhao Zhu (Zhejiang University)
7. Yunjun Gao (Zhejiang University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{wang_vldb23,
        title = {{PromptEM: Prompt-tuning for Low-resource Generalized Entity Matching}},
        author = {Wang, Pengfei and Zeng, Xiaocan and Chen, Lu and Ye, Fan and Mao, Yuren and Zhu, Junhao and Gao, Yunjun},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '23},
        volume = {16},
        number = {2},
        pages = {369--378},
        doi = {10.14778/3565816.3565836},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3565816.3565836},
        year = {2023}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,203	BEACON: Budget-Aware Entity Matching Across Domains	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,248	Generalized Entity Matching with Adaptivity via Large Language Models	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,334	3dSAGER: Geospatial Entity Resolution over 3D Objects	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,217	FusionQuery: On-demand Fusion Queries over Multi-source Heterogeneous Data	2024	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,262	Enriching Relations with Additional Attributes for ER	2024	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 16 of 16 cited papers.

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
196	CrowdER: Crowdsourcing Entity Resolution	2012	VLDB	0.00025780596
265	Human-powered Sorts and Joins	2012	VLDB	0.00022935368
297	Generic Schema Matching with Cupid	2001	VLDB	0.00022157284
439	Corleone: Hands-Off Crowdsourcing for Entity Matching	2014	SIGMOD	0.00018464913
489	Distributed Representations of Tuples for Entity Resolution	2018	VLDB	0.0001761456
1,248	Entity Matching: How Similar Is Similar	2011	VLDB	0.00011498301
1,465	Synthesizing Entity Matching Rules by Examples	2018	VLDB	0.00010689571
2,475	Deep Learning for Blocking in Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration	2021	VLDB	8.5277654e-05
3,611	NADEEF/ER: Generic and Interactive Entity Resolution	2014	SIGMOD	7.2580469e-05
3,883	Magellan: Toward Building Entity Matching Management Systems over Data Science Stacks	2016	VLDB	7.0487615e-05
4,402	LargeEA: Aligning Entities for Large-scale Knowledge Graphs	2022	VLDB	6.7232199e-05
4,966	Rotom: A Meta-Learned Data Augmentation Framework for Entity Matching, Data Cleaning, Text Classification, and Beyond	2021	SIGMOD	6.4225454e-05
5,730	Domain Adaptation for Deep Entity Resolution	2022	SIGMOD	6.1071585e-05
8,077	Deep Transfer Learning for Multi-source Entity Linkage via Domain Adaptation	2022	VLDB	5.4926436e-05

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