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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
6.5812416e-05
Overall Rank
4,444 | 70.22%
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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100 HoloClean: Holistic Data Repairs with Probabilistic Inference 2017 VLDB 0.00033951027
132 Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models 2021 VLDB 0.00030213215
160 CORDS: Automatic Discovery of Correlations and Soft Functional Dependencies 2004 SIGMOD 0.00027775994
190 A Cost-Based Model and Effective Heuristic for Repairing Constraints by Value Modification 2005 SIGMOD 0.00025812169
348 Discovering Denial Constraints 2013 VLDB 0.00020216677
435 Mining Database Structure; Or, How to Build a Data Quality Browser 2002 SIGMOD 0.00018277436
527 Improving Data Quality: Consistency and Accuracy 2007 VLDB 0.00016859013
652 Don’t be SCAREd: Use SCalable Automatic REpairing with Maximal Likelihood and Bounded Changes 2013 SIGMOD 0.00015117165
653 Discovering Data Quality Rules 2008 VLDB 0.00015102328
853 HoloDetect: Few-Shot Learning for Error Detection 2019 SIGMOD 0.00013437314
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1,306 Detecting Data Errors: Where are we and what needs to be done? 2016 VLDB 0.00011076619
1,731 Raha: A Configuration-Free Error Detection System 2019 SIGMOD 9.7585913e-05
1,875 Predictive Interaction for Data Transformation 2015 CIDR 9.4433754e-05
1,967 iMAP: Discovering Complex Semantic Matches between Database Schemas 2004 SIGMOD 9.2816844e-05
1,985 Sato: Contextual Semantic Type Detection in Tables 2020 VLDB 9.2378767e-05
2,131 Discovery of Genuine Functional Dependencies from Relational Data with Missing Values 2018 VLDB 8.9867472e-05
2,271 ZeroER: Entity Resolution using Zero Labeled Examples 2020 SIGMOD 8.7110698e-05
2,608 Auto-Join: Joining Tables by Leveraging Transformations 2017 VLDB 8.209962e-05
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