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Auto-Transform: Learning-to-Transform by Patterns

Summary: Auto-Transform introduces transform-by-patterns (TBP): learning data transformations from patterns in large, cross-domain column pairs, without input/output examples. Multilingual, pattern-based harvesting yields transformations for data repairs and ETL automation, outperforming transform-by-example methods. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h262ad8748fab26b3
Venue
VLDB
Year
2020
Pagerank
6.601896e-05
Overall Rank
4,426 | 70.26%
DOI
10.14778/3407790.3407831
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BibTeX Citation

@article{jin_vldb20,
        title = {{Auto-Transform: Learning-to-Transform by Patterns}},
        author = {Jin, Zhongjun and He, Yeye and Chaudhuri, Surajit},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '20},
        volume = {13},
        number = {11},
        pages = {2368--2381},
        doi = {10.14778/3407790.3407831},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3407790.3407831},
        year = {2020}
}

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95 Potter's Wheel: An Interactive Data Cleaning System 2001 VLDB 0.00034367518
104 HoloClean: Holistic Data Repairs with Probabilistic Inference 2017 VLDB 0.00033676943
134 Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models 2021 VLDB 0.00030042569
160 CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies 2004 SIGMOD 0.00027827605
188 A Cost-Based Model and Effective Heuristic for Repairing Constraints by Value Modification 2005 SIGMOD 0.00025861123
350 Discovering Denial Constraints 2013 VLDB 0.00020244085
435 Mining Database Structure; Or, How to Build a Data Quality Browser 2002 SIGMOD 0.0001831946
526 Improving Data Quality: Consistency and Accuracy 2007 VLDB 0.00016879
650 Discovering Data Quality Rules 2008 VLDB 0.00015142855
652 Don’t be SCAREd: Use SCalable Automatic REpairing with Maximal Likelihood and Bounded Changes 2013 SIGMOD 0.00015114401
884 HoloDetect: Few-Shot Learning for Error Detection 2019 SIGMOD 0.00013263269
1,095 BlinkFill: Semi-supervised Programming By Example for Syntactic String Transformations 2016 VLDB 0.00012048043
1,098 KATARA: A Data Cleaning System Powered by Knowledge Bases and Crowdsourcing 2015 SIGMOD 0.00012031983
1,115 Foofah: Transforming Data By Example 2017 SIGMOD 0.00011958625
1,344 Detecting Data Errors: Where are we and what needs to be done? 2016 VLDB 0.00010951939
1,805 Raha: A Configuration-Free Error Detection System 2019 SIGMOD 9.5938877e-05
1,872 Predictive Interaction for Data Transformation 2015 CIDR 9.4606235e-05
1,959 iMAP: Discovering Complex Semantic Matches between Database Schemas 2004 SIGMOD 9.3102615e-05
2,093 Sato: Contextual Semantic Type Detection in Tables 2020 VLDB 9.0593586e-05
2,127 Discovery of Genuine Functional Dependencies from Relational Data with Missing Values 2018 VLDB 8.9990594e-05
2,325 ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples 2020 SIGMOD 8.6308459e-05
2,613 Auto-Join: Joining Tables by Leveraging Transformations 2017 VLDB 8.2229082e-05
2,744 Transform-Data-by-Example (TDE): An Extensible Search Engine for Data Transformations 2018 VLDB 8.064168e-05
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