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Can Large Language Models Predict Data Correlations from Column Names?

Summary: Introduces a Kaggle-derived benchmark for predicting column correlations from names. Evaluates language models across correlation and accuracy metrics, identifying name length, word ratio, and column types as key factors. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
13486
Venue
VLDB
Year
2023
Pagerank
6.2515841e-05
Overall Rank
5,354 | 63.27%
DOI
10.14778/3625054.3625066

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BibTeX Citation

@article{trummer_vldb23,
        title = {{Can Large Language Models Predict Data Correlations from Column Names?}},
        author = {Trummer, Immanuel},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '23},
        volume = {16},
        number = {13},
        pages = {4310--4323},
        doi = {10.14778/3625054.3625066},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3625054.3625066},
        year = {2023}
}

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