Reverse Engineering SPJ-Queries from Examples
Summary: Reverse-engineer SPJ queries from positive/negative examples: decide satisfiability (exists SPJ returning all positives and no negatives) and learn such a query. Presents a fine-grained classical and parameterized complexity landscape across operator subsets, schema/query/example sizes (bounded vs unbounded), proving new W[3]-completeness results and implications for avoiding overfitting. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Yaacov Y. Weiss
- 2. Sara Cohen
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,421 | Duoquest: A Dual-Specification System for Expressive SQL Queries | 2020 | SIGMOD | 0.00012052759 |
| 2,990 | FastQRE: Fast Query Reverse Engineering | 2018 | SIGMOD | 7.7727915e-05 |
| 3,662 | Example-Driven Query Intent Discovery: Abductive Reasoning using Semantic Similarity | 2019 | VLDB | 6.8647421e-05 |
| 6,235 | New Trends on Exploratory Methods for Data Analytics | 2017 | VLDB | 5.1386078e-05 |
| 8,338 | Exploring the Data Wilderness through Examples | 2019 | SIGMOD | 4.538469e-05 |
| 8,892 | Generation of Training Examples for Tabular Natural Language Inference | 2023 | SIGMOD | 4.4233018e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 432 | On the Complexity of Database Queries (Extended Abstract) | 1997 | PODS | 0.00023349408 |
| 491 | Query by Output | 2009 | SIGMOD | 0.00021960753 |
| 1,124 | How to ConQueR Why-Not Questions | 2010 | SIGMOD | 0.00013832959 |
| 1,575 | Reverse Engineering Complex Join Queries | 2013 | SIGMOD | 0.00011288804 |
| 2,751 | Learning and Verifying Quantified Boolean Queries by Example | 2013 | PODS | 8.1725194e-05 |
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| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 1,456 | Query From Examples: An Iterative, Data-Driven Approach to Query Construction | 2015 | VLDB | 0.00011891284 |
| 11,038 | Relational Query Synthesis ⋈ Decision Tree Learning | 2024 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 7,561 | Complete Approximations of Incomplete Queries | 2013 | VLDB | 4.7057229e-05 |
| 8,958 | Understanding Queries by Conditional Instances | 2022 | SIGMOD | 4.417947e-05 |
| 5,743 | Explaining Wrong Queries Using Small Examples | 2019 | SIGMOD | 5.3432106e-05 |
| 912 | The Complexity of Evaluating Relational Queries | 1983 | PODS | 0.00015374685 |
| 2,990 | FastQRE: Fast Query Reverse Engineering | 2018 | SIGMOD | 7.7727915e-05 |
| 4,545 | Bounded Conjunctive Queries | 2014 | VLDB | 6.0917464e-05 |
| 1,502 | Discovering Queries based on Example Tuples | 2014 | SIGMOD | 0.00011614522 |
| 1,575 | Reverse Engineering Complex Join Queries | 2013 | SIGMOD | 0.00011288804 |