Causality-Guided Adaptive Interventional Debugging
Summary: Adaptive Interventional Debugging (AID) for runtime nondeterminism in database applications fuses statistical debugging, causal analysis, fault injection, and group testing to pinpoint root causes and how they trigger failures. Using temporal predicates to bound causality and targeted interventions, AID converges faster than group testing and delivers precise causal explanations, validated on real and synthetic applications. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Anna Fariha (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
- 2. Suman Nath (Microsoft)
- 3. Alexandra Meliou (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{fariha_sigmod20,
title = {{Causality-Guided Adaptive Interventional Debugging}},
author = {Fariha, Anna and Nath, Suman and Meliou, Alexandra},
series = {{SIGMOD} '20},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3318464.3389694},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3318464.3389694},
year = {2020}
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4,876 | XInsight: eXplainable Data Analysis Through The Lens of Causality | 2023 | SIGMOD | 6.4687705e-05 |
| 7,068 | DataPrism: Exposing Disconnect between Data and Systems | 2022 | SIGMOD | 5.7119157e-05 |
| 11,170 | Counterfactual Explanation at Will, with Zero Privacy Leakage | 2024 | SIGMOD | 5.093636e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| 858 | Interpretable and Informative Explanations of Outcomes | 2015 | VLDB | 0.0001356511 |
| 1,943 | Causality and Explanations in Databases | 2014 | VLDB | 9.440636e-05 |
| 2,432 | Tracing Data Errors with View-Conditioned Causality | 2011 | SIGMOD | 8.5870067e-05 |
| 2,759 | Data X-Ray: A Diagnostic Tool for Data Errors | 2015 | SIGMOD | 8.1577506e-05 |
| 3,186 | Feral Concurrency Control: An Empirical Investigation of Modern Application Integrity | 2015 | SIGMOD | 7.6559187e-05 |
| 5,574 | Lineage-driven Fault Injection | 2015 | SIGMOD | 6.1681803e-05 |
| 5,967 | A Demonstration of Interactive Analysis of Performance Measurements with Viska | 2017 | SIGMOD | 6.0248681e-05 |
| 8,171 | Fixed It For You: Protocol Repair Using Lineage Graphs | 2019 | CIDR | 5.4740088e-05 |
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