Monte Carlo Tree Search for Generating Interactive Data Analysis Interfaces
Summary: Proposes a top-down, search-based method that encodes both query ASTs and UI layout in a single difftree. Uses Monte Carlo Tree Search to explore the huge search space and optimize a joint cost over layout, widgets, and multi-step inputs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Yiru Chen (Columbia University)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{chen_sigmod20,
title = {{Monte Carlo Tree Search for Generating Interactive Data Analysis Interfaces}},
author = {Chen, Yiru},
series = {{SIGMOD} '20},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3318464.3384404},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3318464.3384404},
year = {2020}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,919 | PI2: End-to-end Interactive Visualization Interface Generation from Queries | 2022 | SIGMOD | 6.0426677e-05 |
| 7,450 | Demonstration of PI2: Interactive Visualization Interface Generation for SQL Analysis in Notebook | 2022 | SIGMOD | 5.6141166e-05 |
| 10,773 | Physical Visualization Design: Decoupling Interface and System Design | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
| 11,782 | (Demo) Physical Visualization Design | 2020 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,904 | Mining Precision Interfaces From Query Logs | 2019 | SIGMOD | 6.4503063e-05 |
| 5,621 | Precision Interfaces for Different Modalities | 2018 | SIGMOD | 6.1472303e-05 |
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