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Auto-FuzzyJoin: Auto-Program Fuzzy Similarity Joins Without Labeled Examples

Summary: Auto-FuzzyJoin auto-programs fuzzy similarity joins without labeled data by exploiting a geometric interpretation of distance-functions to meet a user-specified precision tau while maximizing recall. On 50 Wikipedia-derived fuzzy-join tasks, it beats unsupervised baselines and rivals supervised methods with partial labels; code and benchmark data are released on GitHub. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
ha11e167f5006e6cb
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2021
Pagerank
6.3329595e-05
Overall Rank
4,970 | 66.59%
DOI
10.1145/3448016.3452824

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{li_sigmod21,
        title = {{Auto-FuzzyJoin: Auto-Program Fuzzy Similarity Joins Without Labeled Examples}},
        author = {Li, Peng and Cheng, Xiang and Chu, Xu and He, Yeye and Chaudhuri, Surajit},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '21},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3448016.3452824},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3448016.3452824},
        year = {2021}
}

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360 Efficient Parallel Set-Similarity Joins Using MapReduce 2010 SIGMOD 0.00020009936
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