Optimization for Active Learning-based Interactive Database Exploration

Summary: Frames explore-by-example as an active-learning database service, exploiting query properties for tailored exploration algorithms. Optimizations overcome active learning’s slow convergence, delivering substantially higher accuracy and interactive efficiency than prior methods on real data. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: hb04521470a975d90
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2019
Pagerank: 6.5684897e-05
Overall Rank: 4,509 | 69.70%
DOI: 10.14778/3275536.3275542
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Authors

1. Enhui Huang (Ecole Polytechnique)
2. Liping Peng (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
3. Luciano Di Palma (Ecole Polytechnique)
4. Ahmed Abdelkafi (Ecole Polytechnique)
5. Anna Liu (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
6. Yanlei Diao (Ecole Polytechnique; University of Massachusetts Amherst)

BibTeX Citation

@article{huang_vldb19,
        title = {{Optimization for Active Learning-based Interactive Database Exploration}},
        author = {Huang, Enhui and Peng, Liping and Di Palma, Luciano and Abdelkafi, Ahmed and Liu, Anna and Diao, Yanlei},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '19},
        volume = {12},
        number = {1},
        pages = {71--84},
        doi = {10.14778/3275536.3275542},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3275536.3275542},
        year = {2019}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,050	Automatically Generating Data Exploration Sessions Using Deep Reinforcement Learning	2020	SIGMOD	9.1186729e-05
2,278	Active Learning for ML Enhanced Database Systems	2020	SIGMOD	8.7057608e-05
4,499	Automating Exploratory Data Analysis via Machine Learning: An Overview	2020	SIGMOD	6.5731941e-05
7,148	Guided Exploration of Data Summaries	2022	VLDB	5.5967192e-05
7,909	CAMAL: Optimizing LSM-trees via Active Learning	2024	SIGMOD	5.4266123e-05
10,175	Towards Autonomous, Hands-Free Data Exploration	2020	CIDR	5.0658661e-05
11,985	Exploring Ratings in Subjective Databases	2021	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
519	Query by Output	2009	SIGMOD	0.00016937515
1,018	Designing And Mining Multi-Terabyte Astronomy Archives: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey	2000	SIGMOD	0.00012460728
1,211	Query From Examples: An Iterative, Data-Driven Approach to Query Construction	2015	VLDB	0.00011522028
1,273	Discovering Queries based on Example Tuples	2014	SIGMOD	0.00011243661
1,955	Exemplar Queries: Give me an Example of What You Need	2014	VLDB	9.3136735e-05
2,648	Explore-by-Example: An Automatic Query Steering Framework for Interactive Data Exploration	2014	SIGMOD	8.172373e-05
2,685	Learning and Verifying Quantified Boolean Queries by Example	2013	PODS	8.1334309e-05
3,203	Interactive Data Exploration Using Semantic Windows	2014	SIGMOD	7.5392994e-05
3,281	Controlling False Discoveries During Interactive Data Exploration	2017	SIGMOD	7.4574856e-05
4,328	Playful Query Specification with DataPlay	2012	VLDB	6.6582731e-05
4,456	Interactive Time Series Analytics Powered by ONEX	2017	SIGMOD	6.5900948e-05
6,095	Interactive Browsing and Navigation in Relational Databases	2016	VLDB	5.8867043e-05
9,181	Determining the Impact Regions of Competing Options in Preference Space	2017	SIGMOD	5.2115802e-05
12,439	AIDE: An Automatic User Navigation System for Interactive Data Exploration	2015	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

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