Discovering Graph Functional Dependencies

Summary: Discovering Graph Functional Dependencies (GFDs) for graphs; implication and satisfiability are fixed-parameter tractable, yet validation is co-W[1]-hard. Introduces reduced GFDs and support; scalable parallel discovery and cover computation on large graphs. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h3105942671958360
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2018
Pagerank: 5.5768239e-05
Overall Rank: 7,243 | 51.31%
DOI: 10.1145/3183713.3196916

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Authors

1. Wenfei Fan (Beihang University; University of Edinburgh)
2. Chunming Hu (Beihang University)
3. Xueli Liu (Harbin Engineering University)
4. Ping Lu (Beihang University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{fan_sigmod18,
        title = {{Discovering Graph Functional Dependencies}},
        author = {Fan, Wenfei and Hu, Chunming and Liu, Xueli and Lu, Ping},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '18},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3183713.3196916},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3183713.3196916},
        year = {2018}
}

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5,513	Big Graphs: Challenges and Opportunities	2022	VLDB	6.0986544e-05
5,798	Normalizing Property Graphs	2023	VLDB	5.9905343e-05
6,525	Parallel Discrepancy Detection and Incremental Detection	2021	VLDB	5.756805e-05
6,855	Fast Incremental Discovery of Pointwise Order Dependencies	2020	VLDB	5.6642528e-05
7,226	Certus: An Effective Entity Resolution Approach with Graph Differential Dependencies (GDDs)	2019	VLDB	5.5810344e-05
7,342	Discovering Association Rules from Big Graphs	2022	VLDB	5.5480127e-05
8,218	Towards Event Prediction in Temporal Graphs	2022	VLDB	5.3762638e-05
8,293	Capturing Associations in Graphs	2020	VLDB	5.3612871e-05
8,398	Deducing Certain Fixes to Graphs	2019	VLDB	5.3399392e-05
9,806	Making It Tractable to Catch Duplicates and Conflicts in Graphs	2023	SIGMOD	5.1257999e-05
11,186	Rule-Based Graph Cleaning with GPUs on a Single Machine	2025	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
11,550	Capturing More Associations by Referencing External Graphs	2024	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,563	Extending Graph Rules with Oracles	2024	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,724	Enriching Recommendation Models with Logic Conditions	2023	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
12,210	Catching Numeric Inconsistencies in Graphs	2018	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
350	Discovering Denial Constraints	2013	VLDB	0.00020253521
649	Discovering Data Quality Rules	2008	VLDB	0.00015149865
1,027	GraMI: Frequent Subgraph and Pattern Mining in a Single Large Graph	2014	VLDB	0.00012422544
1,042	YAGO3: A Knowledge Base from Multilingual Wikipedias	2015	CIDR	0.00012336872
2,364	Dependencies for Graphs	2017	PODS	8.5665938e-05
3,026	Functional Dependencies for Graphs	2016	SIGMOD	7.7387829e-05
4,858	Association Rules with Graph Patterns	2015	VLDB	6.3793644e-05
12,210	Catching Numeric Inconsistencies in Graphs	2018	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05

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