Auto-Formula: Recommend Formulas in Spreadsheets using Contrastive Learning for Table Representations

Summary: Auto-Formula recommends spreadsheet cell formulas by retrieving/adapting formulas from similar enterprise spreadsheets, exploiting the recurring structure and computation patterns across org-specific tables. Key idea: contrastive learning for table/spreadsheet representations to predict target formulas more accurately than prior approaches. (summarized by gpt-5.4-mini on May 24 2026)

Paper ID: 6888
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 4.343902e-05
Overall Rank: 9,381 | 34.81%
DOI: 10.1145/3654925

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
6,564	Automatic Database Configuration Debugging using Retrieval-Augmented Language Models	2025	SIGMOD	5.0037892e-05
7,933	In-depth Analysis of Graph-based RAG in a Unified Framework	2025	VLDB	4.6089395e-05

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,010	SnipSuggest: Context-Aware Autocompletion for SQL	2011	VLDB	0.00014644808
1,179	Table Union Search on Open Data	2018	VLDB	0.00013458551
1,266	Foofah: Transforming Data By Example	2017	SIGMOD	0.00012921038
2,585	Table-GPT: Table Fine-tuned GPT for Diverse Table Tasks	2024	SIGMOD	8.4909917e-05
3,098	SQL QueRIE Recommendations	2010	VLDB	7.572006e-05
3,254	Auto-Suggest: Learning-to-Recommend Data Preparation Steps Using Data Science Notebooks	2020	SIGMOD	7.3172324e-05
3,483	Transform-Data-by-Example (TDE): An Extensible Search Engine for Data Transformations	2018	VLDB	7.0493668e-05
3,738	Auto-Join: Joining Tables by Leveraging Transformations	2017	VLDB	6.8006812e-05
5,096	Auto-Transform: Learning-to-Transform by Patterns	2020	VLDB	5.6960764e-05
5,279	Auto-Tables: Synthesizing Multi-Step Transformations to Relationalize Tables without Using Examples	2023	VLDB	5.5851818e-05
5,389	Auto-Pipeline: Synthesizing Complex Data Pipelines By-Target Using Reinforcement Learning and Search	2021	VLDB	5.5339832e-05
7,100	Mondrian: Spreadsheet Layout Detection	2022	SIGMOD	4.826163e-05
8,044	Transform-Data-by-Example (TDE): Extensible Data Transformation in Excel	2018	SIGMOD	4.5950532e-05
8,828	HAIPipe: Combining Human-generated and Machine-generated Pipelines for Data Preparation	2023	SIGMOD	4.4364918e-05

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