Brainwash: A Data System for Feature Engineering

Summary: Brainwash: a data-system vision to ease feature engineering for large ML-driven systems by shortening the Explore–Extract–Evaluate loop and revealing how feature code interacts with massive datasets. Focuses on faster iterative feedback and run reuse. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hbfb2a7dfa3d773a8
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2013
Pagerank: 8.2523942e-05
Overall Rank: 2,587 | 82.62%
DOI: -
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Authors

1. Michael Anderson (University of Michigan)
2. Dolan Antenucci (University of Michigan)
3. Victor Bittorf (University of Wisconsin)
4. Matthew Burgess (University of Michigan)
5. Michael Cafarella (University of Michigan)
6. Arun Kumar (University of Wisconsin)
7. Feng Niu (University of Wisconsin)
8. Yongjoo Park (University of Michigan)
9. Christopher Ré (University of Wisconsin)
10. Ce Zhang (University of Wisconsin)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{anderson_cidr13,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '13},
        title = {{Brainwash: A Data System for Feature Engineering}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Anderson, Michael and Antenucci, Dolan and Bittorf, Victor and Burgess, Matthew and Cafarella, Michael and Kumar, Arun and Niu, Feng and Park, Yongjoo and Ré, Christopher and Zhang, Ce},
        year = {2013}
}

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