Explaining Dataset Changes for Semantic Data Versioning with Explain-Da-V

Summary: Explain-Da-V: framework that explains semantic changes between dataset versions by synthesizing concise data-transformation explanations. Proposes validity, generalizability and explainability metrics and empirically outperforms prior transformation-synthesis methods. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h9cd29e3dc592bf07
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 6.254003e-05
Overall Rank: 5,120 | 65.69%
DOI: 10.14778/3583140.3583169
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Authors

1. Roee Shraga (Northeastern University)
2. Renée J. Miller (Northeastern University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{shraga_vldb23,
        title = {{Explaining Dataset Changes for Semantic Data Versioning with Explain-Da-V}},
        author = {Shraga, Roee and Miller, Renée J.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '23},
        volume = {16},
        number = {6},
        pages = {1587--1600},
        doi = {10.14778/3583140.3583169},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3583140.3583169},
        year = {2023}
}

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7,946	TabulaX: Leveraging Large Language Models for Multi-Class Table Transformations	2025	VLDB	5.404949e-05
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9,997	Discovering Functional Dependencies through Hitting Set Enumeration	2024	SIGMOD	5.0845476e-05
10,576	Shape-Agnostic Table Overlap Discovery: A Maximum Common Subhypergraph Approach	2026	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
11,212	ChARLES: Change-Aware Recovery of Latent Evolution Semantics in Relational Data	2025	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
11,334	Weak-to-Strong Prompts with Lightweight-to-Powerful LLMs for High-Accuracy, Low-Cost, and Explainable Data Transformation	2025	VLDB	4.9605343e-05

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132	Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models	2021	VLDB	0.00030213215
623	Data Lake Management: Challenges and Opportunities	2019	VLDB	0.00015446839
679	JOSIE: Overlap Set Similarity Search for Finding Joinable Tables in Data Lakes	2019	SIGMOD	0.00014802
727	Functional Dependency Discovery: An Experimental Evaluation of Seven Algorithms	2015	VLDB	0.00014426954
879	Interpretable and Informative Explanations of Outcomes	2015	VLDB	0.00013255435
910	Meaningful Change Detection in Structured Data	1997	SIGMOD	0.00013108662
1,089	DataHub: Collaborative Data Science & Dataset Version Management at Scale	2015	CIDR	0.00012062983
1,094	BlinkFill: Semi-supervised Programming By Example for Syntactic String Transformations	2016	VLDB	0.00012039085
1,111	Foofah: Transforming Data By Example	2017	SIGMOD	0.00011946262
1,362	Principles of Dataset Versioning: Exploring the Recreation/Storage Tradeoff	2015	VLDB	0.0001088824
1,535	Change Detection in Hierarchically Structured Information	1996	SIGMOD	0.00010299485
2,001	OrpheusDB: Bolt-on Versioning for Relational Databases	2017	VLDB	9.2020796e-05
2,097	Open Data Integration	2018	VLDB	9.0397587e-05
2,608	Auto-Join: Joining Tables by Leveraging Transformations	2017	VLDB	8.209962e-05
2,645	Auto-Suggest: Learning-to-Recommend Data Preparation Steps Using Data Science Notebooks	2020	SIGMOD	8.1641056e-05
2,746	Transform-Data-by-Example (TDE): An Extensible Search Engine for Data Transformations	2018	VLDB	8.0458815e-05
3,594	Learning Semantic String Transformations from Examples	2012	VLDB	7.1638481e-05
3,897	Navigating the Data Lake with DATAMARAN: Automatically Extracting Structure from Log Datasets	2018	SIGMOD	6.9202872e-05
4,005	Auto-Pipeline: Synthesizing Complex Data Pipelines By-Target Using Reinforcement Learning and Search	2021	VLDB	6.8448428e-05
4,158	Integrating Data Lake Tables	2023	VLDB	6.7595989e-05
4,444	Auto-Transform: Learning-to-Transform by Patterns	2020	VLDB	6.5812416e-05
5,117	Towards Benchmarking Feature Type Inference for AutoML Platforms	2021	SIGMOD	6.2551509e-05
5,585	Exploring Change – A New Dimension of Data Analytics	2019	VLDB	6.0584232e-05
6,608	Explain3D: Explaining Disagreements in Disjoint Datasets	2019	VLDB	5.7187078e-05
6,746	SQUARES: A SQL Synthesizer Using Query Reverse Engineering	2020	VLDB	5.6743008e-05
6,896	ADnEV: Cross-Domain Schema Matching using Deep Similarity Matrix Adjustment and Evaluation	2020	VLDB	5.6380737e-05
7,190	FlexER: Flexible Entity Resolution for Multiple Intents	2023	SIGMOD	5.5737453e-05
8,016	TardisDB: Extending SQL to Support Versioning	2021	SIGMOD	5.3910163e-05
8,532	DBChEx: Interactive Exploration of Data and Schema Change	2019	CIDR	5.3062824e-05
9,329	DataDiff: User-Interpretable Data Transformation Summaries for Collaborative Data Analysis	2018	SIGMOD	5.1800142e-05

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