Causal Relational Learning

Summary: Relational causal learning for multi-table data. CaRL is a Datalog-like language encoding causal background knowledge and assumptions specify queries and simulate interventions on relational schemas, evaluated on social science and healthcare data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5974
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 0.0001193267
Overall Rank: 1,449 | 89.93%
DOI: 10.1145/3318464.3389759

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,404	Responsible Data Management	2020	VLDB	0.00012174977
2,923	Explaining Black-Box Algorithms Using Probabilistic Contrastive Counterfactuals	2021	SIGMOD	7.8953538e-05
4,872	Explainable AI: Foundations, Applications, Opportunities for Data Management Research	2022	SIGMOD	5.8609352e-05
5,313	XInsight: eXplainable Data Analysis Through The Lens of Causality	2023	SIGMOD	5.573009e-05
5,607	HYPER: Hypothetical Reasoning With What-If and How-To Queries Using a Probabilistic Causal Approach	2022	SIGMOD	5.4137872e-05
6,077	The Fast and the Private: Task-based Dataset Search	2024	CIDR	5.2229324e-05
6,449	Causal Data Integration	2023	VLDB	5.0587746e-05
6,565	Toward Interpretable and Actionable Data Analysis with Explanations and Causality	2022	VLDB	5.0081626e-05
6,944	DataPrism: Exposing Disconnect between Data and Systems	2022	SIGMOD	4.8912787e-05
7,172	Summarized Causal Explanations For Aggregate Views	2024	SIGMOD	4.8114797e-05
8,618	Nexus: Correlation Discovery over Collections of Spatio-Temporal Tabular Data	2024	SIGMOD	4.4838259e-05
9,644	Fair and Actionable Causal Prescription Ruleset	2025	SIGMOD	4.3109001e-05
10,101	Privacy-preserving and Verifiable Causal Prescriptive Analytics	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,213	Stress-Testing Causal Claims via Cardinality Repairs	2026	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
10,581	Causal DAG Summarization	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,676	Meaningful Data Erasure in the Presence of Dependencies	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,715	What If: Causal Analysis with Graph Databases	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,725	Suna: Scalable Causal Confounder Discovery over Relational Data	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,845	Versatile Property Graph Transformations	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
11,266	MINT: Detecting Fraudulent Behaviors from Time-series Relational Data	2023	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
13,288	Demonstration of Inferring Causality from Relational Databases with CaRL	2020	VLDB	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
942	A Formal Approach to Finding Explanations for Database Queries	2014	SIGMOD	0.00015155714
1,119	The Complexity of Causality and Responsibility for Query Answers and non-Answers	2011	VLDB	0.0001386199
1,371	Tiresias: The Database Oracle for How-To Queries	2012	SIGMOD	0.00012323502
1,461	Hypothetical Queries in an OLAP Environment	2000	VLDB	0.0001188499
1,646	Caravan: Provisioning for What-If Analysis	2013	CIDR	0.00011036992
2,402	Causality and Explanations in Databases	2014	VLDB	8.8928361e-05
2,602	Tracing Data Errors with View-Conditioned Causality	2011	SIGMOD	8.4667197e-05

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