Learning and Deducing Temporal Orders

Summary: Infers temporal orders of same-entity attribute values without full timestamps via GATE: a creator–critic loop that couples a deep-ranking model with rule-based currency deduction. The critic validates/deduces extra ordered pairs and feeds augmented labels back until convergence, boosting F‑measure (>80%) and outperforming pure deep learning and rule baselines. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hc583565482574786
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2023
Pagerank: 4.9793485e-05
Overall Rank: 11,748 | 21.02%
DOI: 10.14778/3594512.3594524

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Authors

1. Wenfei Fan (Beihang University; Shenzhen University; University of Edinburgh)
2. Resul Tugay (University of Edinburgh)
3. Yaoshu Wang (Shenzhen University)
4. Min Xie (Shenzhen University)
5. Muhammad Asif Ali (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@article{fan_vldb23,
        title = {{Learning and Deducing Temporal Orders}},
        author = {Fan, Wenfei and Tugay, Resul and Wang, Yaoshu and Xie, Min and Ali, Muhammad Asif},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '23},
        volume = {16},
        number = {8},
        pages = {1944--1957},
        doi = {10.14778/3594512.3594524},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3594512.3594524},
        year = {2023}
}

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,872	Rock: Cleaning Data by Embedding ML in Logic Rules	2024	SIGMOD	5.4362062e-05
11,635	Rock: Cleaning Data with both ML and Logic Rules	2024	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10	Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning	1979	SIGMOD	0.00075944947
33	Consistent Query Answers in Inconsistent Databases	1999	PODS	0.00049349003
134	Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models	2021	VLDB	0.00030043481
350	Discovering Denial Constraints	2013	VLDB	0.00020253521
1,385	Truth Discovery and Copying Detection in a Dynamic World	2009	VLDB	0.00010843714
1,619	Efficient Denial Constraint Discovery with Hydra	2018	VLDB	0.00010055625
1,971	Discovery of Approximate (and Exact) Denial Constraints	2020	VLDB	9.2873596e-05
2,443	Approximate Denial Constraints	2020	VLDB	8.4586656e-05
2,895	Linking Temporal Records	2011	VLDB	7.8995964e-05
4,233	The Interaction between Functional Dependencies and Template Dependencies	1980	SIGMOD	6.7136317e-05
4,696	Global Detection of Complex Copying Relationships Between Sources	2010	VLDB	6.4652683e-05
5,281	Determining the Currency of Data	2011	PODS	6.199083e-05
6,525	Parallel Discrepancy Detection and Incremental Detection	2021	VLDB	5.756805e-05
7,409	Linking Temporal Records for Profiling Entities	2015	SIGMOD	5.5343253e-05
8,218	Towards Event Prediction in Temporal Graphs	2022	VLDB	5.3762638e-05

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