Entity Resolution with Hierarchical Graph Attention Networks

Summary: Proposes HierGAT, a hierarchical graph-attention ER model that jointly reasons about interdependent decisions, not pairwise. Uses graph attention to identify discriminative attributes/words, achieving up to 32.5% F1 over DeepMatcher and 8.7% over Ditto. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 6386
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2022
Pagerank: 6.6150054e-05
Overall Rank: 4,590 | 68.51%
DOI: 10.1145/3514221.3517872

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Authors

1. Dezhong Yao (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
2. Yuhong Gu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
3. Gao Cong (Nanyang Technological University)
4. Hai Jin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)
5. Xinqiao Lv (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{yao_sigmod22,
        title = {{Entity Resolution with Hierarchical Graph Attention Networks}},
        author = {Yao, Dezhong and Gu, Yuhong and Cong, Gao and Jin, Hai and Lv, Xinqiao},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '22},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3514221.3517872},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3514221.3517872},
        year = {2022}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,423	Computing Graph Edit Distance via Neural Graph Matching	2023	VLDB	7.4260662e-05
8,627	ThriftLLM: On Cost-Effective Selection of Large Language Models for Classification Queries	2025	VLDB	5.3969543e-05
10,203	BEACON: Budget-Aware Entity Matching Across Domains	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
10,382	LLM-Powered Interactive Graph Search: A Scalable and Practical Approach	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05
11,255	Blocker and Matcher Can Mutually Benefit: A Co-Learning Framework for Low-Resource Entity Resolution	2024	VLDB	5.093636e-05
11,266	DARKER: Efficient Transformer with Data-driven Attention Mechanism for Time Series	2024	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 15 of 15 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
141	Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models	2021	VLDB	0.0002964847
176	Deep Learning for Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration	2018	SIGMOD	0.00027191081
196	CrowdER: Crowdsourcing Entity Resolution	2012	VLDB	0.00025780596
248	Evaluation of entity resolution approaches on real-world match problems	2010	VLDB	0.00023278354
439	Corleone: Hands-Off Crowdsourcing for Entity Matching	2014	SIGMOD	0.00018464913
489	Distributed Representations of Tuples for Entity Resolution	2018	VLDB	0.0001761456
529	Magellan: Toward Building Entity Matching Management Systems	2016	VLDB	0.00017096361
619	Reasoning about Record Matching Rules	2009	VLDB	0.00015707247
1,248	Entity Matching: How Similar Is Similar	2011	VLDB	0.00011498301
1,465	Synthesizing Entity Matching Rules by Examples	2018	VLDB	0.00010689571
2,463	A Comprehensive Benchmark Framework for Active Learning Methods in Entity Matching	2020	SIGMOD	8.5486912e-05
3,713	Generating Concise Entity Matching Rules	2017	SIGMOD	7.176496e-05
4,966	Rotom: A Meta-Learned Data Augmentation Framework for Entity Matching, Data Cleaning, Text Classification, and Beyond	2021	SIGMOD	6.4225454e-05
5,391	MDedup: Duplicate Detection with Matching Dependencies	2020	VLDB	6.2343031e-05
8,419	Ontology-based Entity Matching in Attributed Graphs	2019	VLDB	5.4282511e-05

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