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Going Beyond Provenance: Explaining Query Answers with Pattern-based Counterbalances
Summary: Explains aggregation outliers via counterbalancing, moving beyond provenance; explanations are opposite-direction outliers to the observed anomaly. Introduces ARPs and efficient mining to generate data-driven explanations, validated empirically.
(summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
- Paper ID
- 5598
- Venue
- SIGMOD
- Year
- 2019
- Pagerank
- 5.6324589e-05
- Overall Rank
- 5,192 | 63.92%
- DOI
-
10.1145/3299869.3300066
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
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Citing Paper |
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Venue |
Pagerank |
| 5,132 |
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2019 |
VLDB |
5.6704051e-05 |
| 5,321 |
XInsight: eXplainable Data Analysis Through The Lens of Causality |
2023 |
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5.5676564e-05 |
| 5,706 |
Putting Things into Context: Rich Explanations for Query Answers using Join Graphs |
2021 |
SIGMOD |
5.3633001e-05 |
| 5,918 |
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2024 |
SIGMOD |
5.2688869e-05 |
| 6,565 |
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2022 |
VLDB |
5.0033542e-05 |
| 6,779 |
Explaining Inference Queries with Bayesian Optimization |
2021 |
VLDB |
4.9232829e-05 |
| 7,172 |
Summarized Causal Explanations For Aggregate Views |
2024 |
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4.8068645e-05 |
| 8,388 |
FEDEX: An Explainability Framework for Data Exploration Steps |
2022 |
VLDB |
4.525436e-05 |
| 8,853 |
Complaint-Driven Training Data Debugging at Interactive Speeds |
2022 |
SIGMOD |
4.4308213e-05 |
| 9,644 |
Fair and Actionable Causal Prescription Ruleset |
2025 |
SIGMOD |
4.3067693e-05 |
| 9,702 |
CaJaDE: Explaining Query Results by Augmenting Provenance with Context |
2022 |
VLDB |
4.2964668e-05 |
| 9,768 |
DPXPlain: Privately Explaining Aggregate Query Answers |
2023 |
VLDB |
4.2815042e-05 |
| 9,849 |
Reptile: Aggregation-level Explanations for Hierarchical Data |
2022 |
SIGMOD |
4.2680295e-05 |
| 10,147 |
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2026 |
SIGMOD |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,747 |
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2025 |
VLDB |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,879 |
SDEcho: Efficient Explanation of Aggregated Sequence Difference |
2025 |
VLDB |
4.1905499e-05 |
| 10,942 |
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2024 |
SIGMOD |
4.1905499e-05 |
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Cited Paper |
Year |
Venue |
Pagerank |
| 11 |
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1996 |
SIGMOD |
0.0011695087 |
| 31 |
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2007 |
PODS |
0.00078516827 |
| 213 |
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2013 |
VLDB |
0.0003371037 |
| 247 |
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1996 |
VLDB |
0.00030923842 |
| 487 |
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2009 |
SIGMOD |
0.00022030123 |
| 653 |
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2008 |
VLDB |
0.00018616975 |
| 762 |
Explaining differences in multidimensional aggregates |
1999 |
VLDB |
0.00016984985 |
| 943 |
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2014 |
SIGMOD |
0.00015140995 |
| 992 |
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2017 |
VLDB |
0.00014795333 |
| 1,001 |
Intelligent Rollups in Multidimensional OLAP Data |
2001 |
VLDB |
0.00014709145 |
| 1,047 |
Functional Dependency Discovery: An Experimental Evaluation of Seven Algorithms |
2015 |
VLDB |
0.00014442219 |
| 1,096 |
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2015 |
VLDB |
0.00014088686 |
| 1,106 |
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2011 |
PODS |
0.00013976386 |
| 1,119 |
The Complexity of Causality and Responsibility for Query Answers and non-Answers |
2011 |
VLDB |
0.00013851012 |
| 1,124 |
How to ConQueR Why-Not Questions |
2010 |
SIGMOD |
0.00013832959 |
| 1,376 |
Tiresias: The Database Oracle for How-To Queries |
2012 |
SIGMOD |
0.00012315734 |
| 1,533 |
PerfXplain: Debugging MapReduce Job Performance |
2012 |
VLDB |
0.00011462982 |
| 1,698 |
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2011 |
SIGMOD |
0.00010857033 |
| 2,253 |
Vizdom: Interactive Analytics through Pen and Touch |
2015 |
VLDB |
9.1886315e-05 |
| 2,565 |
Explaining Missing Answers to SPJUA Queries |
2010 |
VLDB |
8.5307653e-05 |
| 2,614 |
i3: Intelligent, Interactive Investigation of OLAP data cubes |
2000 |
SIGMOD |
8.4538942e-05 |
| 2,655 |
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2016 |
VLDB |
8.3638668e-05 |
| 2,794 |
Artemis: A System for Analyzing Missing Answers |
2009 |
VLDB |
8.1164685e-05 |
| 4,549 |
Outlier Detection for High Dimensional Data |
2001 |
SIGMOD |
6.0866685e-05 |
| 5,428 |
High-Level Why-Not Explanations using Ontologies |
2015 |
PODS |
5.5125084e-05 |
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