HoloClean: Holistic Data Repairs with Probabilistic Inference

Summary: HoloClean unifies constraint-/external-source-based and statistical data repair through automatically generated probabilistic programs. Scalable inference optimizations handle millions of tuples, achieving ~90% precision, >76% recall, and >2× F1 over prior methods. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: hfd89a18c795e9f81
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2017
Pagerank: 0.00033951027
Overall Rank: 100 | 99.34%
DOI: 10.14778/3137628.3137663
PDF: Download (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

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Authors

1. Theodoros Rekatsinas (Stanford University)
2. Xu Chu (University of Waterloo)
3. Ihab F. Ilyas (University of Waterloo)
4. Christopher Ré (Stanford University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{rekatsinas_vldb17,
        title = {{HoloClean: Holistic Data Repairs with Probabilistic Inference}},
        author = {Rekatsinas, Theodoros and Chu, Xu and Ilyas, Ihab F. and Ré, Christopher},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '17},
        volume = {10},
        number = {11},
        pages = {1190--1203},
        doi = {10.14778/3137628.3137663},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3137628.3137663},
        year = {2017}
}

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7,310	Data Civilizer 2.0: A Holistic Framework for Data Preparation and Analytics	2019	VLDB	5.5432586e-05
7,438	Data Integration and Machine Learning: A Natural Synergy	2018	VLDB	5.5123601e-05
7,496	Fast Detection of Denial Constraint Violations	2022	VLDB	5.4968024e-05
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7,870	CoClean: Collaborative Data Cleaning	2020	SIGMOD	5.4200227e-05
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7,892	Rock: Cleaning Data by Embedding ML in Logic Rules	2024	SIGMOD	5.4156936e-05
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190	A Cost-Based Model and Effective Heuristic for Repairing Constraints by Value Modification	2005	SIGMOD	0.00025812169
264	Record Linkage: Similarity Measures and Algorithms	2006	SIGMOD	0.0002276412
348	Discovering Denial Constraints	2013	VLDB	0.00020216677
502	Dependencies Revisited for Improving Data Quality	2008	PODS	0.00017239652
516	Data Curation at Scale: The Data Tamer System	2013	CIDR	0.00016963937
527	Improving Data Quality: Consistency and Accuracy	2007	VLDB	0.00016859013
544	ERACER: A Database Approach for Statistical Inference and Data Cleaning	2010	SIGMOD	0.00016584014
569	Incremental Knowledge Base Construction Using DeepDive	2015	VLDB	0.00016212139
619	Reasoning about Record Matching Rules	2009	VLDB	0.00015503747
621	Entity Resolution: Theory, Practice & Open Challenges	2012	VLDB	0.00015460277
652	Don’t be SCAREd: Use SCalable Automatic REpairing with Maximal Likelihood and Bounded Changes	2013	SIGMOD	0.00015117165
695	NADEEF: A Commodity Data Cleaning System	2013	SIGMOD	0.00014679058
769	The LLUNATIC Data-Cleaning Framework	2013	VLDB	0.00014091996
939	Truth Finding on the Deep Web: Is the Problem Solved?	2013	VLDB	0.00012945534
988	Towards Certain Fixes with Editing Rules and Master Data	2010	VLDB	0.00012643318
1,067	Tuffy: Scaling up Statistical Inference in Markov Logic Networks using an RDBMS	2011	VLDB	0.00012170631
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1,169	DimmWitted: A Study of Main-Memory Statistical Analytics	2014	VLDB	0.00011690039
1,306	Detecting Data Errors: Where are we and what needs to be done?	2016	VLDB	0.00011076619
1,354	Sampling the Repairs of Functional Dependency Violations under Hard Constraints	2010	VLDB	0.00010912271
2,759	Dichotomies in the Complexity of Preferred Repairs	2015	PODS	8.0269594e-05
2,958	Towards Dependable Data Repairing with Fixing Rules	2014	SIGMOD	7.7991971e-05
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