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Can Foundation Models Wrangle Your Data?

Summary: Casts five data-cleaning and integration tasks as prompts, showing large foundation models achieve state-of-the-art performance without task-specific fine-tuning. Highlights privacy/domain adaptation challenges and accessibility opportunities for data management. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h551ca782cf25abbd
Venue
VLDB
Year
2023
Pagerank
0.00021022156
Overall Rank
323 | 97.84%
DOI
10.14778/3574245.3574258
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BibTeX Citation

@article{narayan_vldb23,
        title = {{Can Foundation Models Wrangle Your Data?}},
        author = {Narayan, Avanika and Chami, Ines and Orr, Laurel and Ré, Christopher},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '23},
        volume = {16},
        number = {4},
        pages = {738--746},
        doi = {10.14778/3574245.3574258},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3574245.3574258},
        year = {2023}
}

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