CAPE: Explaining Outliers by Counterbalancing
Summary: Explains surprising aggregation outcomes by counterbalancing with opposite-direction outliers. Defines coarse aggregate regression patterns (ARPs) and presents an efficient algorithm to surface counterbalances as explanations. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Zhengjie Miao (Duke University)
- 2. Qitian Zeng (Illinois Institute of Technology)
- 3. Chenjie Li (Illinois Institute of Technology)
- 4. Boris Glavic (Illinois Institute of Technology)
- 5. Oliver Kennedy (State University of New York at Buffalo)
- 6. Sudeepa Roy (Duke University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{miao_vldb19,
title = {{CAPE: Explaining Outliers by Counterbalancing}},
author = {Miao, Zhengjie and Zeng, Qitian and Li, Chenjie and Glavic, Boris and Kennedy, Oliver and Roy, Sudeepa},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '19},
volume = {12},
number = {12},
pages = {1806--1809},
doi = {10.14778/3352063.3352071},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3352063.3352071},
year = {2019}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5,793 | Banzhaf Values for Facts in Query Answering | 2024 | SIGMOD | 5.9930101e-05 |
| 6,699 | Toward Interpretable and Actionable Data Analysis with Explanations and Causality | 2022 | VLDB | 5.7058728e-05 |
| 7,924 | Outlier Summarization via Human Interpretable Rules | 2024 | VLDB | 5.425954e-05 |
| 10,018 | ExTuNe: Explaining Tuple Non-conformance | 2020 | SIGMOD | 5.0956141e-05 |
| 10,530 | Outliers: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly | 2026 | SIGMOD | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 10,739 | Database Views as Explanations for Relational Deep Learning | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | Provenance Semirings | 2007 | PODS | 0.00059752575 |
| 189 | Scorpion: Explaining Away Outliers in Aggregate Queries | 2013 | VLDB | 0.00025840026 |
| 670 | A Formal Approach to Finding Explanations for Database Queries | 2014 | SIGMOD | 0.00014954494 |
| 4,739 | Going Beyond Provenance: Explaining Query Answers with Pattern-based Counterbalances | 2019 | SIGMOD | 6.4441962e-05 |
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