How and Why False Denial Constraints are Discovered

Summary: Show SOTA denial-constraint discovery yields mostly false constraints (false rate often >95%), tracing the issue to the standard DC validity definition. Propose a statistical redefinition of DC validity that prevents false positives, recovers true constraints missed by experts, and provides curated golden DC sets. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13976
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 4.1905499e-05
Overall Rank: 10,687 | 25.73%
DOI: 10.14778/3748191.3748209

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556	Discovering Denial Constraints	2013	VLDB	0.00020214701
733	Discovering Data Quality Rules	2008	VLDB	0.00017428132
890	A Hybrid Approach to Functional Dependency Discovery	2016	SIGMOD	0.00015542177
2,082	Efficient Discovery of Approximate Dependencies	2018	VLDB	9.5875364e-05
2,258	Efficient Denial Constraint Discovery with Hydra	2018	VLDB	9.1804145e-05
2,484	Discovery of Approximate (and Exact) Denial Constraints	2020	VLDB	8.6737275e-05
2,576	Discovery of Genuine Functional Dependencies from Relational Data with Missing Values	2018	VLDB	8.509121e-05
3,448	Approximate Denial Constraints	2020	VLDB	7.081095e-05
4,271	Cleaning Denial Constraint Violations through Relaxation	2020	SIGMOD	6.2943273e-05
4,680	Scalable Discovery of Unique Column Combinations	2014	VLDB	5.9964535e-05
6,470	Fast Algorithms for Denial Constraint Discovery	2023	VLDB	5.0439835e-05
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8,836	Fast Approximate Denial Constraint Discovery	2023	VLDB	4.4350633e-05
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