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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
0.00030213215
Overall Rank
132 | 99.12%
DOI
10.14778/3421424.3421431
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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}
}

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