OIE: An Interpretable System for Outlier Explanation and Summarization

Summary: OIE is an interpretable system for outlier explanation and summarization, delivering fine-grained, rule-based insights instead of opaque flags. It uses decision trees to generate concise rules, with dynamic data partitioning and a boundary stabilizer to scale to high-dimensional data and subspace-specific outlier causes. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7231
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 5.2528121e-05
Overall Rank: 9,543 | 34.53%
DOI: 10.1145/3722212.3725120

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Authors

1. Jingzhe Xu (Beijing Institute of Technology)
2. Yuhao Deng (Beijing Institute of Technology)
3. Chengliang Chai (Beijing Institute of Technology)
4. Zequn Li (Beijing Institute of Technology)
5. Yuping Wang (Beijing Institute of Technology)
6. Lei Cao (University of Arizona)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{xu_sigmod25,
        title = {{OIE: An Interpretable System for Outlier Explanation and Summarization}},
        author = {Xu, Jingzhe and Deng, Yuhao and Chai, Chengliang and Li, Zequn and Wang, Yuping and Cao, Lei},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '25},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3722212.3725120},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3722212.3725120},
        year = {2025}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,131	Towards Scalable Visual Data Wrangling via Direct Manipulation	2026	CIDR	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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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
191	Scorpion: Explaining Away Outliers in Aggregate Queries	2013	VLDB	0.00026096009
8,802	Outlier Summarization via Human Interpretable Rules	2024	VLDB	5.3685765e-05

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