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Birdie: Natural Language-Driven Table Discovery Using Differentiable Search Index

Summary: Birdie replaces the representation–index–search pipeline for NL table discovery with a differentiable search index: an encoder–decoder LM trained to map synthetic LLM-generated queries/tables to prefix-aware table identifiers, enabling deeper query–table interaction. Uses parameter-isolation for continual indexing, reducing forgetting >90% and improving accuracy +16.8% vs dense baselines. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
h8e4ae5cbbb0d63fa
Venue
VLDB
Year
2025
Pagerank
4.9793485e-05
Overall Rank
11,256 | 24.33%
DOI
10.14778/3734839.3734845

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@article{guo_vldb25,
        title = {{Birdie: Natural Language-Driven Table Discovery Using Differentiable Search Index}},
        author = {Guo, Yuxiang and Hu, Zhonghao and Mao, Yuren and Zheng, Baihua and Gao, Yunjun and Zhou, Mingwei},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '25},
        volume = {18},
        number = {7},
        pages = {2070--2083},
        doi = {10.14778/3734839.3734845},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3734839.3734845},
        year = {2025}
}

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377 TURL: Table Understanding through Representation Learning 2021 VLDB 0.00019570264
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
1,683 ReAcTable: Enhancing ReAct for Table Question Answering 2024 VLDB 9.8822754e-05
1,852 Semantics-aware Dataset Discovery from Data Lakes with Contextualized Column-based Representation Learning 2023 VLDB 9.5004635e-05
1,978 Table-GPT: Table Fine-tuned GPT for Diverse Table Tasks 2024 SIGMOD 9.2730152e-05
1,988 SANTOS: Relationship-based Semantic Table Union Search 2023 SIGMOD 9.2482448e-05
2,351 Schema Extraction for Tabular Data on the Web 2013 VLDB 8.5928057e-05
2,382 DeepJoin: Joinable Table Discovery with Pre-trained Language Models 2023 VLDB 8.5458532e-05
4,331 FinSQL: Model-Agnostic LLMs-based Text-to-SQL Framework for Financial Analysis 2024 SIGMOD 6.6590534e-05
4,409 LakeBench: A Benchmark for Discovering Joinable and Unionable Tables in Data Lakes 2024 VLDB 6.6120807e-05
4,489 ARM-Net: Adaptive Relation Modeling Network for Structured Data 2021 SIGMOD 6.5781098e-05
4,630 Transformers for Tabular Data Representation: A Tutorial on Models and Applications 2022 VLDB 6.4953891e-05
5,332 Observatory: Characterizing Embeddings of Relational Tables 2024 VLDB 6.1766186e-05
6,993 Solo: Data Discovery Using Natural Language Questions Via A Self-Supervised Approach 2023 SIGMOD 5.626765e-05
8,979 Auto-BI: Automatically Build BI-Models Leveraging Local Join Prediction and Global Schema Graph 2023 VLDB 5.2443558e-05
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