DBScholar

Back to papers

Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models

Summary: Ditto casts entity matching as sequence-pair classification and fine-tunes pre-trained Transformers, surpassing prior SOTA by up to 29 F1 points. Domain highlighting, summarization, and hard-example augmentation further improve accuracy while reducing label needs. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h0658f1b0cb5b6790
Venue
VLDB
Year
2021
Pagerank
0.00030043481
Overall Rank
134 | 99.11%
DOI
10.14778/3421424.3421431

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

BibTeX Citation

@article{li_vldb21,
        title = {{Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models}},
        author = {Li, Yuliang and Li, Jinfeng and Suhara, Yoshihiko and Doan, AnHai and Tan, Wang-Chiew},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '21},
        volume = {14},
        number = {1},
        pages = {50--60},
        doi = {10.14778/3421424.3421431},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3421424.3421431},
        year = {2021}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 50 of 96 citing papers.

Rank Citing Paper Year Venue Pagerank
329 Can Foundation Models Wrangle Your Data? 2023 VLDB 0.00020858443
377 TURL: Table Understanding through Representation Learning 2021 VLDB 0.00019570264
1,392 Symphony: Towards Natural Language Query Answering over Multi-modal Data Lakes 2023 CIDR 0.00010807936
1,780 Annotating Columns with Pre-trained Language Models 2022 SIGMOD 9.6560923e-05
1,846 From Natural Language Processing to Neural Databases 2021 VLDB 9.513089e-05
1,852 Semantics-aware Dataset Discovery from Data Lakes with Contextualized Column-based Representation Learning 2023 VLDB 9.5004635e-05
1,978 Table-GPT: Table Fine-tuned GPT for Diverse Table Tasks 2024 SIGMOD 9.2730152e-05
1,991 RPT: Relational Pre-trained Transformer Is Almost All You Need towards Democratizing Data Preparation 2021 VLDB 9.2383849e-05
2,341 The Design of an LLM-powered Unstructured Analytics System 2025 CIDR 8.6066183e-05
2,382 DeepJoin: Joinable Table Discovery with Pre-trained Language Models 2023 VLDB 8.5458532e-05
2,514 Deep Learning for Blocking in Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration 2021 VLDB 8.3648432e-05
3,250 How Large Language Models Will Disrupt Data Management 2023 VLDB 7.4938546e-05
3,263 Automatic Data Repair: Are We Ready to Deploy? 2024 VLDB 7.4809771e-05
3,473 Unicorn: A Unified Multi-tasking Model for Supporting Matching Tasks in Data Integration 2023 SIGMOD 7.2728706e-05
3,521 Ember: No-Code Context Enrichment via Similarity-Based Keyless Joins 2022 VLDB 7.2351481e-05
4,033 Dual-Objective Fine-Tuning of BERT for Entity Matching 2021 VLDB 6.8394738e-05
4,424 Auto-Transform: Learning-to-Transform by Patterns 2020 VLDB 6.6048065e-05
4,454 LargeEA: Aligning Entities for Large-scale Knowledge Graphs 2022 VLDB 6.5927535e-05
4,548 Explaining Link Prediction Systems based on Knowledge Graph Embeddings 2022 SIGMOD 6.5423862e-05
4,630 Transformers for Tabular Data Representation: A Tutorial on Models and Applications 2022 VLDB 6.4953891e-05
4,673 Knowledge Graphs 2021: A Data Odyssey 2021 VLDB 6.4755776e-05
4,676 Entity Resolution with Hierarchical Graph Attention Networks 2022 SIGMOD 6.4745561e-05
4,939 Deep Indexed Active Learning for Matching Heterogeneous Entity Representations 2022 VLDB 6.3458427e-05
4,970 Auto-FuzzyJoin: Auto-Program Fuzzy Similarity Joins Without Labeled Examples 2021 SIGMOD 6.3329595e-05
5,076 Rotom: A Meta-Learned Data Augmentation Framework for Entity Matching, Data Cleaning, Text Classification, and Beyond 2021 SIGMOD 6.2860582e-05
5,097 Explaining Dataset Changes for Semantic Data Versioning with Explain-Da-V 2023 VLDB 6.2742361e-05
5,332 Observatory: Characterizing Embeddings of Relational Tables 2024 VLDB 6.1766186e-05
5,410 ELEET: Efficient Learned Query Execution over Text and Tables 2024 VLDB 6.1408676e-05
5,414 Towards Distribution-aware Query Answering in Data Markets 2022 VLDB 6.1399858e-05
5,540 Pre-trained Embeddings for Entity Resolution: An Experimental Analysis 2023 VLDB 6.0907591e-05
5,623 Through the Fairness Lens: Experimental Analysis and Evaluation of Entity Matching 2023 VLDB 6.0611712e-05
5,687 DTT: An Example-Driven Tabular Transformer for Joinability by Leveraging Large Language Models 2024 SIGMOD 6.0360406e-05
5,705 Analyzing How BERT Performs Entity Matching 2022 VLDB 6.0295759e-05
5,814 Domain Adaptation for Deep Entity Resolution 2022 SIGMOD 5.9852808e-05
6,300 Sparkly: A Simple yet Surprisingly Strong TF/IDF Blocker for Entity Matching 2023 VLDB 5.8189161e-05
6,869 Doctopus: Budget-aware Structural Table Extraction from Unstructured Documents 2025 VLDB 5.659905e-05
7,068 How do Categorical Duplicates Affect ML? A New Benchmark and Empirical Analyses 2024 VLDB 5.6083188e-05
7,181 FlexER: Flexible Entity Resolution for Multiple Intents 2023 SIGMOD 5.5923113e-05
7,260 Entity Resolution On-Demand 2022 VLDB 5.571581e-05
7,283 PromptEM: Prompt-tuning for Low-resource Generalized Entity Matching 2023 VLDB 5.5665122e-05
7,401 BrewER: Entity Resolution On-Demand 2023 VLDB 5.5359939e-05
7,583 Data Imputation with Limited Data Redundancy Using Data Lakes 2025 VLDB 5.4906208e-05
7,643 TableDC: Deep Clustering for Tabular Data 2025 SIGMOD 5.4772833e-05
7,781 LLM-Matcher: A Name-Based Schema Matching Tool using Large Language Models 2025 SIGMOD 5.4535721e-05
7,872 Rock: Cleaning Data by Embedding ML in Logic Rules 2024 SIGMOD 5.4362062e-05
7,928 TabulaX: Leveraging Large Language Models for Multi-Class Table Transformations 2025 VLDB 5.4254488e-05
8,247 Deep Transfer Learning for Multi-source Entity Linkage via Domain Adaptation 2022 VLDB 5.3694034e-05
8,276 Consistent and Flexible Selectivity Estimation for High-Dimensional Data 2021 SIGMOD 5.3641556e-05
8,316 ThriftLLM: On Cost-Effective Selection of Large Language Models for Classification Queries 2025 VLDB 5.3561732e-05
8,322 SMARTFEAT: Efficient Feature Construction through Feature-Level Foundation Model Interactions 2024 CIDR 5.3545825e-05
Previous Page 1 / 2 Next

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.

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

Previous Page 1 / 1 Next

Semantically Similar Papers