The Cascading Analysts Algorithm
Summary: Cascading Analysts algorithm selects a small, disjoint set of segments on a product of trees to explain most metric change, mirroring a hierarchical analyst workflow. Applied in AdWords/Analytics; guarantees: optimal in 2D; log^(d-2)(n+1) for d>=3; 2-approx in ads; NP-hard via conflicts (lower bound 1.144^(d-2)). (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Matthias Ruhl (Accompani)
- 2. Mukund Sundararajan (Google)
- 3. Qiqi Yan (Google)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{ruhl_sigmod18,
title = {{The Cascading Analysts Algorithm}},
author = {Ruhl, Matthias and Sundararajan, Mukund and Yan, Qiqi},
series = {{SIGMOD} '18},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3183713.3183745},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3183713.3183745},
year = {2018}
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| 9,925 | TSExplain: Surfacing Evolving Explanations for Time Series | 2021 | SIGMOD | 5.0975983e-05 |
| 10,224 | Reptile: Aggregation-level Explanations for Hierarchical Data | 2022 | SIGMOD | 5.0460607e-05 |
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| 700 | Explaining differences in multidimensional aggregates | 1999 | VLDB | 0.00014642224 |
| 879 | Interpretable and Informative Explanations of Outcomes | 2015 | VLDB | 0.00013255435 |
| 986 | User-adaptive exploration of multidimensional data | 2000 | VLDB | 0.00012645438 |
| 2,412 | i3: Intelligent, Interactive Investigation of OLAP data cubes | 2000 | SIGMOD | 8.4874541e-05 |
| 2,444 | The Generalized MDL Approach for Summarization | 2002 | VLDB | 8.4450845e-05 |
| 4,298 | MDL Summarization with Holes | 2005 | VLDB | 6.6640493e-05 |
| 4,386 | Multi-Structural Databases | 2005 | PODS | 6.6137721e-05 |
| 4,398 | Meet Charles, big data query advisor | 2013 | CIDR | 6.6065445e-05 |
| 6,589 | Efficient Implementation of Large-Scale Multi-Structural Databases | 2005 | VLDB | 5.7233473e-05 |
| 6,922 | Smart Drill-Down: A New Data Exploration Operator | 2015 | VLDB | 5.629967e-05 |
| 7,567 | Supporting OLAP Operations over Imperfectly Integrated Taxonomies | 2008 | SIGMOD | 5.4775961e-05 |
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