Explaining Outputs in Modern Data Analytics
Summary: Framework for interactive explanations of outputs from modern data-parallel analytics, including iterations. Uses first-occurrence pruning to shrink explanations and a sufficiency-based method to reproduce the target output, implemented as differential dataflow operators for fast, incremental updates. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Zaheer Chothia (ETH Zurich)
- 2. John Liagouris (ETH Zurich)
- 3. Frank McSherry (ETH Zurich)
- 4. Timothy Roscoe (ETH Zurich)
BibTeX Citation
@article{chothia_vldb16,
title = {{Explaining Outputs in Modern Data Analytics}},
author = {Chothia, Zaheer and Liagouris, John and McSherry, Frank and Roscoe, Timothy},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '16},
volume = {9},
number = {12},
pages = {1137--1148},
doi = {10.14778/2994509.2994510},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2994509.2994510},
year = {2016}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,722 | SMOKE: Fine-grained Lineage at Interactive Speed | 2018 | VLDB | 9.781628e-05 |
| 3,684 | DBSP: Automatic Incremental View Maintenance for Rich Query Languages | 2023 | VLDB | 7.0834345e-05 |
| 7,840 | You Say ‘What’, I Hear ‘Where’ and ‘Why’ — (Mis-)Interpreting SQL to Derive Fine-Grained Provenance | 2018 | VLDB | 5.4260988e-05 |
| 10,235 | Ariadne: Online Provenance for Big Graph Analytics | 2019 | SIGMOD | 5.0432098e-05 |
| 11,466 | mlidea: Interactively Improving ML Data Preparation Code via “Shadow Pipelines” | 2025 | VLDB | 4.9605343e-05 |
| 12,007 | Flow Provenance in Temporal Interaction Networks | 2021 | SIGMOD | 4.9605343e-05 |
| 12,263 | Demonstration of Smoke: A Deep Breath of Data-Intensive Lineage Applications | 2018 | SIGMOD | 4.9605343e-05 |
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