BugDoc: Algorithms to Debug Computational Processes

Summary: BugDoc: provenance-driven, iterative approach that automatically infers root causes and provides succinct explanations for failures in pipelines. Evaluates cost, precision, and recall against the state of the art, with reproducible data and software. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5978
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 4.5433282e-05
Overall Rank: 8,341 | 41.98%
DOI: 10.1145/3318464.3389763

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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6,944	DataPrism: Exposing Disconnect between Data and Systems	2022	SIGMOD	4.8912787e-05
8,163	Capturing and Querying Fine-grained Provenance of Preprocessing Pipelines in Data Science	2021	VLDB	4.5723431e-05
8,743	CtxPipe: Context-aware Data Preparation Pipeline Construction for Machine Learning	2024	SIGMOD	4.456315e-05
9,220	BugDoc: A System for Debugging Computational Pipelines	2020	SIGMOD	4.3702188e-05
10,954	Counterfactual Explanation at Will, with Zero Privacy Leakage	2024	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 13 of 13 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
183	Automatic Database Management System Tuning Through Large-scale Machine Learning	2017	SIGMOD	0.00036721403
555	Discovering Denial Constraints	2013	VLDB	0.00020254908
1,022	DBSherlock: A Performance Diagnostic Tool for Transactional Databases	2016	SIGMOD	0.00014614917
1,099	Interpretable and Informative Explanations of Outcomes	2015	VLDB	0.00014096312
2,104	Data Polygamy: The Many-Many Relationships among Urban Spatio-Temporal Data Sets	2016	SIGMOD	9.536298e-05
2,126	MacroBase: Prioritizing Attention in Fast Data	2017	SIGMOD	9.4887794e-05
2,253	Efficient Denial Constraint Discovery with Hydra	2018	VLDB	9.1937209e-05
2,402	Causality and Explanations in Databases	2014	VLDB	8.8928361e-05
2,892	Data Provenance at Internet Scale: Architecture, Experiences, and the Road Ahead	2017	CIDR	7.9480559e-05
3,105	Data X-Ray: A Diagnostic Tool for Data Errors	2015	SIGMOD	7.5568954e-05
5,445	QFix: Diagnosing Errors through Query Histories	2017	SIGMOD	5.5020909e-05
5,708	Lineage-driven Fault Injection	2015	SIGMOD	5.3603939e-05
6,160	A Demonstration of Interactive Analysis of Performance Measurements with Viska	2017	SIGMOD	5.1758344e-05

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