Causal Relational Learning

Summary: Relational causal learning for multi-table data. CaRL is a Datalog-like language encoding causal background knowledge and assumptions specify queries and simulate interventions on relational schemas, evaluated on social science and healthcare data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hc36b8aabca05f51c
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2020
Pagerank: 8.6532142e-05
Overall Rank: 2,315 | 84.44%
DOI: 10.1145/3318464.3389759

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Babak Salimi (University of Washington)
2. Harsh Parikh (Duke University)
3. Moe Kayali (University of Washington)
4. Lise Getoor (University of California Santa Cruz)
5. Sudeepa Roy (Duke University)
6. Dan Suciu (University of Washington)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{salimi_sigmod20,
        title = {{Causal Relational Learning}},
        author = {Salimi, Babak and Parikh, Harsh and Kayali, Moe and Getoor, Lise and Roy, Sudeepa and Suciu, Dan},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '20},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/3318464.3389759},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3318464.3389759},
        year = {2020}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 21 of 21 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,162	Responsible Data Management	2020	VLDB	0.00011753159
3,063	Explaining Black-Box Algorithms Using Probabilistic Contrastive Counterfactuals	2021	SIGMOD	7.6912904e-05
4,566	HYPER: Hypothetical Reasoning With What-If and How-To Queries Using a Probabilistic Causal Approach	2022	SIGMOD	6.5310568e-05
4,982	XInsight: eXplainable Data Analysis Through The Lens of Causality	2023	SIGMOD	6.328859e-05
5,178	Explainable AI: Foundations, Applications, Opportunities for Data Management Research	2022	SIGMOD	6.2411759e-05
6,183	Causal Data Integration	2023	VLDB	5.8587542e-05
6,229	The Fast and the Private: Task-based Dataset Search	2024	CIDR	5.8444773e-05
6,436	Summarized Causal Explanations For Aggregate Views	2024	SIGMOD	5.7853643e-05
6,491	Nexus: Correlation Discovery over Collections of Spatio-Temporal Tabular Data	2024	SIGMOD	5.7674551e-05
6,699	Toward Interpretable and Actionable Data Analysis with Explanations and Causality	2022	VLDB	5.7058728e-05
7,183	DataPrism: Exposing Disconnect between Data and Systems	2022	SIGMOD	5.5917354e-05
9,231	Causal DAG Summarization	2025	VLDB	5.2056825e-05
9,876	MINT: Detecting Fraudulent Behaviors from Time-series Relational Data	2023	VLDB	5.1176637e-05
9,949	Fair and Actionable Causal Prescription Ruleset	2025	SIGMOD	5.1038322e-05
10,587	Privacy-preserving and Verifiable Causal Prescriptive Analytics	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
10,688	Stress-Testing Causal Claims via Cardinality Repairs	2026	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05
11,316	Meaningful Data Erasure in the Presence of Dependencies	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,345	What If: Causal Analysis with Graph Databases	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,355	Suna: Scalable Causal Confounder Discovery over Relational Data	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,428	Versatile Property Graph Transformations	2025	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
13,804	Demonstration of Inferring Causality from Relational Databases with CaRL	2020	VLDB	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 7 of 7 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
578	The Complexity of Causality and Responsibility for Query Answers and non-Answers	2011	VLDB	0.00016096504
670	A Formal Approach to Finding Explanations for Database Queries	2014	SIGMOD	0.00014954494
1,051	Tiresias: The Database Oracle for How-To Queries	2012	SIGMOD	0.00012279821
1,853	Hypothetical Queries in an OLAP Environment	2000	VLDB	9.5001964e-05
1,944	Caravan: Provisioning for What-If Analysis	2013	CIDR	9.3281326e-05
1,981	Causality and Explanations in Databases	2014	VLDB	9.2586863e-05
2,458	Tracing Data Errors with View-Conditioned Causality	2011	SIGMOD	8.4371456e-05

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