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)

Paper ID: h547b145d31c1e0ee
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 5.8587542e-05
Overall Rank: 6,183 | 58.43%
DOI: 10.14778/3603581.3603602

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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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9,231	Causal DAG Summarization	2025	VLDB	5.2056825e-05
9,949	Fair and Actionable Causal Prescription Ruleset	2025	SIGMOD	5.1038322e-05
10,207	From Logs to Causal Inference: Diagnosing Large Systems	2025	VLDB	5.0596605e-05
10,587	Privacy-preserving and Verifiable Causal Prescriptive Analytics	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
10,625	Causal Explanations for Disparate Trends: Where and Why?	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
11,345	What If: Causal Analysis with Graph Databases	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,355	Suna: Scalable Causal Confounder Discovery over Relational Data	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,515	Counterfactual Explanation at Will, with Zero Privacy Leakage	2024	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
11,590	Enriching Relations with Additional Attributes for ER	2024	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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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
497	Efficient Aggregation for Graph Summarization	2008	SIGMOD	0.00017318153
694	JOSIE: Overlap Set Similarity Search for Finding Joinable Tables in Data Lakes	2019	SIGMOD	0.00014727089
765	Table Union Search on Open Data	2018	VLDB	0.00014125424
1,043	Data Cleaning: Overview and Emerging Challenges	2016	SIGMOD	0.00012335114
1,293	Finding Related Tables in Data Lakes for Interactive Data Science	2020	SIGMOD	0.00011149857
1,336	Auctus: A Dataset Search Engine for Data Discovery and Augmentation	2021	VLDB	0.00010988669
2,315	Causal Relational Learning	2020	SIGMOD	8.6532142e-05
2,353	Bias in OLAP Queries: Detection, Explanation, and Removal (Or Think Twice About Your AVG-Query)	2018	SIGMOD	8.5902514e-05
3,090	Correlation Sketches for Approximate Join-Correlation Queries	2021	SIGMOD	7.6584982e-05
4,566	HYPER: Hypothetical Reasoning With What-If and How-To Queries Using a Probabilistic Causal Approach	2022	SIGMOD	6.5310568e-05
4,952	KBPearl: A Knowledge Base Population System Supported by Joint Entity and Relation Linking	2020	VLDB	6.3417814e-05
6,388	Utility-Driven Graph Summarization	2019	VLDB	5.8023555e-05

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