Schema Independent Relational Learning

Summary: Formalizes schema independence for relational learning; current methods vary with (de)composition-schema transformations and outputs across schemas. Introduces Castor, a schema-independent learner using data dependencies to produce stable, schema-agnostic relations. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5351
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 5.5125969e-05
Overall Rank: 7,985 | 45.22%
DOI: 10.1145/3035918.3035923

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Jose Picado (Oregon State University)
2. Arash Termehchy (Oregon State University)
3. Alan Fern (Oregon State University)
4. Parisa Ataei (Oregon State University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{picado_sigmod17,
        title = {{Schema Independent Relational Learning}},
        author = {Picado, Jose and Termehchy, Arash and Fern, Alan and Ataei, Parisa},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '17},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3035918.3035923},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3035918.3035923},
        year = {2017}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,300	Reverse Engineering Aggregation Queries	2017	VLDB	7.5412976e-05
7,880	Learning Over Dirty Data Without Cleaning	2020	SIGMOD	5.5244204e-05
10,042	Scalable and Usable Relational Learning With Automatic Language Bias	2021	SIGMOD	5.1708123e-05
11,678	Structural Generalizability: The Case of Similarity Search	2021	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,948	Learning Efficiently Over Heterogeneous Databases	2018	VLDB	5.093636e-05
12,078	Schema Independent and Scalable Relational Learning By Castor	2016	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
106	The MADlib Analytics Library or MAD Skills, the SQL	2012	VLDB	0.00033539462
413	Relative Information Capacity of Simple Relational Database Schemata	1984	PODS	0.00018894294
532	MLbase: A Distributed Machine-learning System	2013	CIDR	0.00017072641
715	Learning Generalized Linear Models Over Normalized Data	2015	SIGMOD	0.00014655327
1,426	Inverting Schema Mappings	2006	PODS	0.00010814403
2,604	Brainwash: A Data System for Feature Engineering	2013	CIDR	8.3524514e-05
2,639	Learning and Verifying Quantified Boolean Queries by Example	2013	PODS	8.3078378e-05
4,190	QuickFOIL: Scalable Inductive Logic Programming	2015	VLDB	6.8431849e-05

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