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Ember: No-Code Context Enrichment via Similarity-Based Keyless Joins

Summary: Ember automates keyless joins for no-code ML context enrichment by indexing task-specific Transformer embeddings rather than relying on explicit keys. Across search, recommendation, and QA, it supports one-line pipeline configuration and improves recall by up to 39%. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID
h5692c1f4ab184fd8
Venue
VLDB
Year
2022
Pagerank
7.215969e-05
Overall Rank
3,524 | 76.38%
DOI
10.14778/3494124.3494149
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BibTeX Citation

@article{suri_vldb22,
        title = {{Ember: No-Code Context Enrichment via Similarity-Based Keyless Joins}},
        author = {Suri, Sahaana and Ilyas, Ihab F. and Ré, Christopher and Rekatsinas, Theodoros},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '22},
        volume = {15},
        number = {3},
        pages = {699--712},
        doi = {10.14778/3494124.3494149},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3494124.3494149},
        year = {2022}
}

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158 Deep Learning for Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration 2018 SIGMOD 0.00028049555
178 Constructing an Interactive Natural Language Interface for Relational Databases 2015 VLDB 0.00026568976
200 Snorkel: Rapid Training Data Creation with Weak Supervision 2018 VLDB 0.00025443474
459 Distributed Representations of Tuples for Entity Resolution 2018 VLDB 0.00017863654
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512 Goods: Organizing Google's Datasets 2016 SIGMOD 0.00017036842
517 Magellan: Toward Building Entity Matching Management Systems 2016 VLDB 0.00016946929
783 To Join or Not to Join? Thinking Twice about Joins before Feature Selection 2016 SIGMOD 0.00014015599
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1,570 Crossing the Structure Chasm 2003 CIDR 0.00010176166
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4,994 Auto-FuzzyJoin: Auto-Program Fuzzy Similarity Joins Without Labeled Examples 2021 SIGMOD 6.3099657e-05
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