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: 6.2742361e-05
Overall Rank: 5,097 | 65.74%
DOI: 10.14778/3583140.3583169

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

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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7,928	TabulaX: Leveraging Large Language Models for Multi-Class Table Transformations	2025	VLDB	5.4254488e-05
9,958	Discovering Functional Dependencies through Hitting Set Enumeration	2024	SIGMOD	5.1038322e-05
10,499	Shape-Agnostic Table Overlap Discovery: A Maximum Common Subhypergraph Approach	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
10,595	Retrieve-and-Verify: A Table Context Selection Framework for Accurate Column Annotations	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
11,144	ChARLES: Change-Aware Recovery of Latent Evolution Semantics in Relational Data	2025	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
11,270	Weak-to-Strong Prompts with Lightweight-to-Powerful LLMs for High-Accuracy, Low-Cost, and Explainable Data Transformation	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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134	Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models	2021	VLDB	0.00030043481
624	Data Lake Management: Challenges and Opportunities	2019	VLDB	0.00015479826
694	JOSIE: Overlap Set Similarity Search for Finding Joinable Tables in Data Lakes	2019	SIGMOD	0.00014727089
727	Functional Dependency Discovery: An Experimental Evaluation of Seven Algorithms	2015	VLDB	0.00014443394
878	Interpretable and Informative Explanations of Outcomes	2015	VLDB	0.00013302631
908	Meaningful Change Detection in Structured Data	1997	SIGMOD	0.00013157386
1,086	DataHub: Collaborative Data Science & Dataset Version Management at Scale	2015	CIDR	0.0001210322
1,094	BlinkFill: Semi-supervised Programming By Example for Syntactic String Transformations	2016	VLDB	0.0001205355
1,115	Foofah: Transforming Data By Example	2017	SIGMOD	0.00011964111
1,355	Principles of Dataset Versioning: Exploring the Recreation/Storage Tradeoff	2015	VLDB	0.0001092646
1,531	Change Detection in Hierarchically Structured Information	1996	SIGMOD	0.0001033805
1,992	OrpheusDB: Bolt-on Versioning for Relational Databases	2017	VLDB	9.2366883e-05
2,158	Open Data Integration	2018	VLDB	8.941016e-05
2,612	Auto-Join: Joining Tables by Leveraging Transformations	2017	VLDB	8.2265197e-05
2,641	Auto-Suggest: Learning-to-Recommend Data Preparation Steps Using Data Science Notebooks	2020	SIGMOD	8.1787073e-05
2,745	Transform-Data-by-Example (TDE): An Extensible Search Engine for Data Transformations	2018	VLDB	8.0668395e-05
3,587	Learning Semantic String Transformations from Examples	2012	VLDB	7.1881077e-05
3,912	Navigating the Data Lake with DATAMARAN: Automatically Extracting Structure from Log Datasets	2018	SIGMOD	6.9306061e-05
4,159	Integrating Data Lake Tables	2023	VLDB	6.7717519e-05
4,235	Auto-Pipeline: Synthesizing Complex Data Pipelines By-Target Using Reinforcement Learning and Search	2021	VLDB	6.713221e-05
4,424	Auto-Transform: Learning-to-Transform by Patterns	2020	VLDB	6.6048065e-05
5,100	Towards Benchmarking Feature Type Inference for AutoML Platforms	2021	SIGMOD	6.27349e-05
5,569	Exploring Change – A New Dimension of Data Analytics	2019	VLDB	6.0813343e-05
6,600	Explain3D: Explaining Disagreements in Disjoint Datasets	2019	VLDB	5.7403306e-05
6,725	SQUARES: A SQL Synthesizer Using Query Reverse Engineering	2020	VLDB	5.6949573e-05
6,883	ADnEV: Cross-Domain Schema Matching using Deep Similarity Matrix Adjustment and Evaluation	2020	VLDB	5.6565418e-05
7,181	FlexER: Flexible Entity Resolution for Multiple Intents	2023	SIGMOD	5.5923113e-05
7,994	TardisDB: Extending SQL to Support Versioning	2021	SIGMOD	5.4113961e-05
8,511	DBChEx: Interactive Exploration of Data and Schema Change	2019	CIDR	5.3263409e-05
9,294	DataDiff: User-Interpretable Data Transformation Summaries for Collaborative Data Analysis	2018	SIGMOD	5.1995938e-05

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