DTT: An Example-Driven Tabular Transformer for Joinability by Leveraging Large Language Models

Summary: DTT: an example-driven tabular transformer for joinability across heterogeneous formats. Few-shot mappings learned by fine-tuned LLMs yield accurate joins, missing-values, and error detection; outperform traditional approaches and rival GPT-3. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 6833
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 4.9231471e-05
Overall Rank: 6,800 | 52.70%
DOI: 10.1145/3639279

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Authors

1. Arash Dargahi Nobari
2. Davood Rafiei

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,587	Table-GPT: Table Fine-tuned GPT for Diverse Table Tasks	2024	SIGMOD	8.4924618e-05
9,399	TabulaX: Leveraging Large Language Models for Multi-Class Table Transformations	2025	VLDB	4.3441378e-05
10,595	Optimized Batch Prompting for Cost-effective LLMs	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,598	Auto-Prep: Holistic Prediction of Data Preparation Steps for Self-Service Business Intelligence	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
10,610	Weak-to-Strong Prompts with Lightweight-to-Powerful LLMs for High-Accuracy, Low-Cost, and Explainable Data Transformation	2025	VLDB	4.1945683e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
221	Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models	2021	VLDB	0.00033121824
513	TURL: Table Understanding through Representation Learning	2021	VLDB	0.00021288342
1,267	Foofah: Transforming Data By Example	2017	SIGMOD	0.00012936483
1,469	BlinkFill: Semi-supervised Programming By Example for Syntactic String Transformations	2016	VLDB	0.00011836053
2,057	From Natural Language Processing to Neural Databases	2021	VLDB	9.6624862e-05
2,349	RPT: Relational Pre-trained Transformer Is Almost All You Need towards Democratizing Data Preparation	2021	VLDB	8.9876423e-05
3,478	Transform-Data-by-Example (TDE): An Extensible Search Engine for Data Transformations	2018	VLDB	7.054159e-05
3,735	Auto-Join: Joining Tables by Leveraging Transformations	2017	VLDB	6.8061318e-05
4,850	SEMA-JOIN: Joining Semantically-Related Tables Using Big Table Corpora	2015	VLDB	5.8768452e-05
5,096	Auto-Transform: Learning-to-Transform by Patterns	2020	VLDB	5.7011825e-05
5,434	Auto-FuzzyJoin: Auto-Program Fuzzy Similarity Joins Without Labeled Examples	2021	SIGMOD	5.5045402e-05
5,449	Transformers for Tabular Data Representation: A Tutorial on Models and Applications	2022	VLDB	5.5008652e-05
8,042	Transform-Data-by-Example (TDE): Extensible Data Transformation in Excel	2018	SIGMOD	4.5994569e-05
8,499	Synthesizing Mapping Relationships Using Table Corpus	2017	SIGMOD	4.4975851e-05

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