TableDC: Deep Clustering for Tabular Data

Summary: TableDC applies deep clustering to tabular data, learning embeddings for schemas, rows, and domains. It blends Mahalanobis distance with a heavy-tailed Cauchy kernel to handle overlap/outliers and scales to many clusters for data integration. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7342
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 5.6029996e-05
Overall Rank: 7,501 | 48.54%
DOI: 10.1145/3725366

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Authors

1. Hafiz Tayyab Rauf (University of Manchester)
2. André Freitas (IDIAP Research Institute; University of Manchester)
3. Norman W. Paton (University of Manchester)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{rauf_sigmod25,
        title = {{TableDC: Deep Clustering for Tabular Data}},
        author = {Rauf, Hafiz Tayyab and Freitas, André and Paton, Norman W.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '25},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3725366},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3725366},
        year = {2025}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10,352	Categorical Data Clustering via Value Order Estimated Distance Metric Learning	2026	SIGMOD	5.093636e-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
31	BIRCH: An Efficient Data Clustering Method for Very Large Databases	1996	SIGMOD	0.00050347119
141	Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models	2021	VLDB	0.0002964847
489	Distributed Representations of Tuples for Entity Resolution	2018	VLDB	0.0001761456
871	Framework for Evaluating Clustering Algorithms in Duplicate Detection	2009	VLDB	0.00013496531
878	Table Union Search on Open Data	2018	VLDB	0.00013463374
1,402	Creating Embeddings of Heterogeneous Relational Datasets for Data Integration Tasks	2020	SIGMOD	0.00010888094
1,702	Schema Summarization	2006	VLDB	9.9697258e-05
2,192	Semantics-aware Dataset Discovery from Data Lakes with Contextualized Column-based Representation Learning	2023	VLDB	8.9767241e-05
2,290	ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples	2020	SIGMOD	8.799251e-05
2,795	Inferring XML Schema Definitions from XML Data	2007	VLDB	8.115421e-05
3,572	Summary Graphs for Relational Database Schemas	2011	VLDB	7.2980153e-05
5,125	Data-Driven Domain Discovery for Structured Datasets	2020	VLDB	6.356638e-05
6,192	Pre-trained Embeddings for Entity Resolution: An Experimental Analysis	2023	VLDB	5.947284e-05
9,438	SubTab: Data Exploration with Informative Sub-Tables	2022	SIGMOD	5.2687297e-05

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