Efficient Differential Dependency Discovery

Summary: Introduces 'diff-set', a compact encoding of value differences, and a set-cover-based miner for differential dependencies (DDs) that generalize FDs and capture similarity/dissimilarity. Diff-set construction plus non-minimal pruning yields orders-of-magnitude speedups vs prior DD/RFD discovery. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13398
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 4.2856385e-05
Overall Rank: 9,748 | 32.26%
DOI: 10.14778/3654621.3654624

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