SLiMFast: Guaranteed Results for Data Fusion and Source Reliability

Summary: SLiMFast reframes data fusion as discriminative models (logistic regression) to estimate source accuracies with guarantees. It uses domain knowledge to boost accuracy (up to 50%) and includes an optimizer that automatically selects learning algorithms. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5379
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 7.1763559e-05
Overall Rank: 3,715 | 74.52%
DOI: 10.1145/3035918.3035951

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Authors

1. Theodoros Rekatsinas (Stanford University)
2. Manas Joglekar (Stanford University)
3. Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford University)
4. Aditya Parameswaran (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
5. Christopher Ré (Stanford University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{rekatsinas_sigmod17,
        title = {{SLiMFast: Guaranteed Results for Data Fusion and Source Reliability}},
        author = {Rekatsinas, Theodoros and Joglekar, Manas and Garcia-Molina, Hector and Parameswaran, Aditya and Ré, Christopher},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '17},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3035918.3035951},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3035918.3035951},
        year = {2017}
}

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1,094	Snuba: Automating Weak Supervision to Label Training Data	2019	VLDB	0.00012214617
3,271	Ten Years of WebTables	2018	VLDB	7.5779937e-05
3,281	Cleaning Crowdsourced Labels Using Oracles for Statistical Classification	2019	VLDB	7.5706653e-05
3,304	Saga: A Platform for Continuous Construction and Serving of Knowledge At Scale	2022	SIGMOD	7.5404346e-05
4,100	Data Integration and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy	2018	SIGMOD	6.9016092e-05
4,451	GOGGLES: Automatic Image Labeling with Affinity Coding	2020	SIGMOD	6.6952549e-05
4,966	Rotom: A Meta-Learned Data Augmentation Framework for Entity Matching, Data Cleaning, Text Classification, and Beyond	2021	SIGMOD	6.4225454e-05
5,058	Snorkel DryBell: A Case Study in Deploying Weak Supervision at Industrial Scale	2019	SIGMOD	6.3815523e-05
5,722	Adaptive Rule Discovery for Labeling Text Data	2021	SIGMOD	6.1089867e-05
7,424	Data Integration and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy	2018	VLDB	5.6214566e-05
9,427	Discovering Top-k Rules using Subjective and Objective Criteria	2023	SIGMOD	5.271035e-05
11,824	Leveraging Organizational Resources to Adapt Models to New Data Modalities	2020	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,931	HomeRun: Scalable Sparse-Spectrum Reconstruction of Aggregated Historical Data	2018	VLDB	5.093636e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
427	Big Data Integration	2013	VLDB	0.00018661543
504	A Bayesian Approach to Discovering Truth from Conflicting Sources for Data Integration	2012	VLDB	0.00017300628
579	Incremental Knowledge Base Construction Using DeepDive	2015	VLDB	0.00016217563
890	Integrating Conflicting Data: The Role of Source Dependence	2009	VLDB	0.00013382697
955	Truth Finding on the Deep Web: Is the Problem Solved?	2013	VLDB	0.00012996675
1,150	DimmWitted: A Study of Main-Memory Statistical Analytics	2014	VLDB	0.00011943462
2,307	Resolving Conflicts in Heterogeneous Data by Truth Discovery and Source Reliability Estimation	2014	SIGMOD	8.7750499e-05
2,351	From Data Fusion to Knowledge Fusion	2014	VLDB	8.7099618e-05
3,495	Knowledge-Based Trust: Estimating the Trustworthiness of Web Sources	2015	VLDB	7.3636386e-05
3,542	A Confidence-Aware Approach for Truth Discovery on Long-Tail Data	2015	VLDB	7.3279455e-05
4,087	Less is More: Selecting Sources Wisely for Integration	2013	VLDB	6.9141684e-05
4,598	Temporal Rules Discovery for Web Data Cleaning	2016	VLDB	6.6127851e-05
6,297	Characterizing and Selecting Fresh Data Sources	2014	SIGMOD	5.9228047e-05

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