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Automating and Optimizing Data-Centric What-If Analyses on Native Machine Learning Pipelines

Summary: mlwhatif declaratively specifies data-centric what-if analyses over ML pipelines and auto-generates variants via patches. A 4-rule optimizer executes variants; instrumented dataflow plans enable linear speedups (up to 13x) and data-size independence. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
6632
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2023
Pagerank
4.5444167e-05
Overall Rank
8,253 | 42.65%
DOI
10.1145/3589273

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8,119 mlwhatif: What If You Could Stop Re-Implementing Your Machine Learning Pipeline Analyses Over and Over? 2023 VLDB 4.5779426e-05
9,234 Modyn: Data-Centric Machine Learning Pipeline Orchestration 2025 SIGMOD 4.3648789e-05
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10,303 Morphing-based Compression for Data-centric ML Pipelines 2026 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
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1,340 HoloDetect: Few-Shot Learning for Error Detection 2019 SIGMOD 0.00012492795
1,406 Responsible Data Management 2020 VLDB 0.0001216385
1,427 Towards Scalable Dataframe Systems 2020 VLDB 0.00012033503
1,646 Caravan: Provisioning for What-If Analysis 2013 CIDR 0.00011026644
1,666 HELIX: Holistic Optimization for Accelerating Iterative Machine Learning 2019 VLDB 0.00010955907
1,869 Interpretable Data-Based Explanations for Fairness Debugging 2022 SIGMOD 0.00010263235
2,122 SystemDS: A Declarative Machine Learning System for the End-to-End Data Science Lifecycle 2020 CIDR 9.4905306e-05
2,290 Cost-Based Optimization of Decision Support Queries using Transient-Views 1998 SIGMOD 9.0918901e-05
2,456 Production Machine Learning Pipelines: Empirical Analysis and Optimization Opportunities 2021 SIGMOD 8.7649259e-05
2,904 Evaluating End-to-End Optimization for Data Analytics Applications in Weld 2018 VLDB 7.9403097e-05
3,409 End-to-end Optimization of Machine Learning Prediction Queries 2022 SIGMOD 7.1240791e-05
4,661 Efficient Answering of Historical What-if Queries 2022 SIGMOD 6.0069281e-05
4,731 MLINSPECT: A Data Distribution Debugger for Machine Learning Pipelines 2021 SIGMOD 5.9558692e-05
5,617 HYPER: Hypothetical Reasoning With What-If and How-To Queries Using a Probabilistic Causal Approach 2022 SIGMOD 5.4085897e-05
6,464 Materialization and Reuse Optimizations for Production Data Science Pipelines 2022 SIGMOD 5.0471003e-05
8,515 UPLIFT: Parallelization Strategies for Feature Transformations in Machine Learning Workloads 2022 VLDB 4.4901466e-05
8,853 Complaint-Driven Training Data Debugging at Interactive Speeds 2022 SIGMOD 4.4308213e-05
11,312 Screening Native ML Pipelines with “ArgusEyes” 2022 CIDR 4.1905499e-05
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