Outliers: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Summary: Distinguishes good (novel), bad (errors), and ugly (feature‑influential errors) outliers and shows only ugly ones harm ML classifier accuracy. Proposes OMRs—predicate rules combining outlier detectors and statistics—to learn and repair ugly outliers (not delete), boosting accuracy 7.2% on average, up to 34.8%. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 11 2026)

Paper ID: hb546dee9075a9212
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2026
Pagerank: 4.9793485e-05
Overall Rank: 10,530 | 29.21%
DOI: 10.1145/3749177

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Authors

1. Shenglin Chen (National University of Defense Technology)
2. Wenfei Fan (Beihang University; Shenzhen University; University of Edinburgh)
3. Ruochun Jin (National University of Defense Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{chen_sigmod26,
        title = {{Outliers: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly}},
        author = {Chen, Shenglin and Fan, Wenfei and Jin, Ruochun},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '26},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3749177},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3749177},
        year = {2026}
}

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10,500	Shielding PII to Prevent Re-identification and Preserve Utility	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05

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33	Consistent Query Answers in Inconsistent Databases	1999	PODS	0.00049349003
142	LOF: Identifying Density-Based Local Outliers	2000	SIGMOD	0.00029202746
164	Mining Frequent Patterns without Candidate Generation	2000	SIGMOD	0.00027412227
350	Discovering Denial Constraints	2013	VLDB	0.00020253521
483	ActiveClean: Interactive Data Cleaning For Statistical Modeling	2016	VLDB	0.00017590977
603	A Hybrid Approach to Functional Dependency Discovery	2016	SIGMOD	0.00015699254
695	Algorithms for Mining Distance-Based Outliers in Large Datasets	1998	VLDB	0.00014702685
878	Interpretable and Informative Explanations of Outcomes	2015	VLDB	0.00013302631
1,031	On Generating Near-Optimal Tableaux for Conditional Functional Dependencies	2008	VLDB	0.00012405065
1,971	Discovery of Approximate (and Exact) Denial Constraints	2020	VLDB	9.2873596e-05
4,103	AutoOD: Automatic Outlier Detection	2023	SIGMOD	6.8066074e-05
4,233	The Interaction between Functional Dependencies and Template Dependencies	1980	SIGMOD	6.7136317e-05
5,151	CAPE: Explaining Outliers by Counterbalancing	2019	VLDB	6.2528145e-05
6,775	Missing Data Imputation with Uncertainty-Driven Network	2024	SIGMOD	5.685295e-05
7,042	Human-in-the-loop Outlier Detection	2020	SIGMOD	5.6142998e-05
7,872	Rock: Cleaning Data by Embedding ML in Logic Rules	2024	SIGMOD	5.4362062e-05
7,876	CHEF: A Cheap and Fast Pipeline for Iteratively Cleaning Label Uncertainties	2021	VLDB	5.4348457e-05
7,912	CoCo: Interactive Exploration of Conformance Constraints for Data Understanding and Data Cleaning	2021	SIGMOD	5.4279818e-05
7,924	Outlier Summarization via Human Interpretable Rules	2024	VLDB	5.425954e-05
8,528	A Demonstration of KGLac: A Data Discovery and Enrichment Platform for Data Science	2021	VLDB	5.3225503e-05
9,511	ActiveDeeper: A Model-based Active Data Enrichment System	2020	VLDB	5.1701756e-05
10,339	Parallel Rule Discovery from Large Datasets by Sampling	2022	SIGMOD	5.0195045e-05
11,724	Enriching Recommendation Models with Logic Conditions	2023	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05

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