Causal Data Integration
Summary: Defines Causal Data Integration (CDI): mining missing attributes from external sources and auto-building causal DAGs to enable causal inference over partial datasets. Gives a system architecture, key challenges and algorithms, and preliminary experiments demonstrating feasibility for recovering missing covariates and correcting mis-specified variable selection. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Brit Youngmann (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 2. Michael Cafarella (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- 3. Babak Salimi (University of California San Diego)
- 4. Anna Zeng (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
BibTeX Citation
@article{youngmann_vldb23,
title = {{Causal Data Integration}},
author = {Youngmann, Brit and Cafarella, Michael and Salimi, Babak and Zeng, Anna},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '23},
volume = {16},
number = {10},
pages = {2659--2665},
doi = {10.14778/3603581.3603602},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3603581.3603602},
year = {2023}
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| 11,596 | Enriching Relations with Additional Attributes for ER | 2024 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
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