OTClean: Data Cleaning for Conditional Independence Violations using Optimal Transport
Summary: OTClean repairs datasets to enforce conditional independence (CI) constraints for fair/trustworthy ML, using optimal transport as the distortion metric. Formulates CI repair as a QCLP, then scales it via Sinkhorn-style regularized optimization for high-dimensional data while preserving utility. (summarized by gpt-5.4-mini on May 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Alireza Pirhadi (University of Western Ontario)
- 2. Mohammad Hossein Moslemi (University of Western Ontario)
- 3. Alexander Cloninger (University of California San Diego)
- 4. Mostafa Milani (University of Western Ontario)
- 5. Babak Salimi (University of California San Diego)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{pirhadi_sigmod24,
title = {{OTClean: Data Cleaning for Conditional Independence Violations using Optimal Transport}},
author = {Pirhadi, Alireza and Moslemi, Mohammad Hossein and Cloninger, Alexander and Milani, Mostafa and Salimi, Babak},
series = {{SIGMOD} '24},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3654963},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3654963},
year = {2024}
}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9,241 | Causal DAG Summarization | 2025 | VLDB | 5.2032182e-05 |
| 9,957 | Fair and Actionable Causal Prescription Ruleset | 2025 | SIGMOD | 5.1014161e-05 |
| 10,364 | Towards Scalable Visual Data Wrangling via Direct Manipulation | 2026 | CIDR | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 10,465 | Fair Data Pre-Processing with Imperfect Attribute Space | 2026 | SIGMOD | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 10,598 | Privacy-preserving and Verifiable Causal Prescriptive Analytics | 2026 | SIGMOD | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 10,699 | Stress-Testing Causal Claims via Cardinality Repairs | 2026 | SIGMOD | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 11,000 | SubCure: A System for Stress-Testing Causal Conclusions Using Cardinality Repairs | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
| 11,130 | User-Centric Property Graph Repairs | 2025 | SIGMOD | 4.9769913e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 804 | Interventional Fairness : Causal Database Repair for Algorithmic Fairness | 2019 | SIGMOD | 0.00013830311 |
| 1,342 | Baran: Effective Error Correction via a Unified Context Representation and Transfer Learning | 2020 | VLDB | 0.00010963254 |
| 1,362 | Computing Optimal Repairs for Functional Dependencies | 2018 | PODS | 0.00010912749 |
| 1,915 | Statistical Distortion: Consequences of Data Cleaning | 2012 | VLDB | 9.3841217e-05 |
| 2,372 | SCODED: Statistical Constraint Oriented Data Error Detection | 2020 | SIGMOD | 8.5575299e-05 |
| 3,065 | Explaining Black-Box Algorithms Using Probabilistic Contrastive Counterfactuals | 2021 | SIGMOD | 7.6876494e-05 |
| 6,849 | Through the Data Management Lens: Experimental Analysis and Evaluation of Fair Classification | 2022 | SIGMOD | 5.6637515e-05 |
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