Schema Independent Relational Learning

Summary: Formalizes schema independence for relational learning; current methods vary with (de)composition-schema transformations and outputs across schemas. Introduces Castor, a schema-independent learner using data dependencies to produce stable, schema-agnostic relations. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h95c8a81ab964908c
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 5.3698391e-05
Overall Rank: 8,172 | 45.23%
DOI: 10.1145/3035918.3035923

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Jose Picado (Oregon State University)
2. Arash Termehchy (Oregon State University)
3. Alan Fern (Oregon State University)
4. Parisa Ataei (Oregon State University)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{picado_sigmod17,
        title = {{Schema Independent Relational Learning}},
        author = {Picado, Jose and Termehchy, Arash and Fern, Alan and Ataei, Parisa},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '17},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3035918.3035923},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3035918.3035923},
        year = {2017}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
3,353	Reverse Engineering Aggregation Queries	2017	VLDB	7.3674867e-05
7,884	Learning Over Dirty Data Without Cleaning	2020	SIGMOD	5.4169982e-05
10,273	Scalable and Usable Relational Learning With Automatic Language Bias	2021	SIGMOD	5.0356939e-05
12,035	Structural Generalizability: The Case of Similarity Search	2021	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
12,296	Learning Efficiently Over Heterogeneous Databases	2018	VLDB	4.9605343e-05
12,420	Schema Independent and Scalable Relational Learning By Castor	2016	VLDB	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
105	The MADlib Analytics Library or MAD Skills, the SQL	2012	VLDB	0.00033605348
428	Relative Information Capacity of Simple Relational Database Schemata	1984	PODS	0.00018419906
538	MLbase: A Distributed Machine-learning System	2013	CIDR	0.00016725463
731	Learning Generalized Linear Models Over Normalized Data	2015	SIGMOD	0.00014363943
1,464	Inverting Schema Mappings	2006	PODS	0.00010547427
2,596	Brainwash: A Data System for Feature Engineering	2013	CIDR	8.2258492e-05
2,695	Learning and Verifying Quantified Boolean Queries by Example	2013	PODS	8.1072676e-05
4,295	QuickFOIL: Scalable Inductive Logic Programming	2015	VLDB	6.6653098e-05

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