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Entity resolution (ER), an important and common data cleaning problem, is about detecting data duplicate representations for the same external entities, and merging them into single representations. Relatively recently, declarative rules…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-01-19 Zeinab Bahmani , Leopoldo Bertossi , Nikolaos Vasiloglou

Entity Resolution (ER) is a critical task for data integration, yet state-of-the-art supervised deep learning models remain impractical for many real-world applications due to their need for massive, expensive-to-obtain labeled datasets.…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Dimitrios Karapiperis , Leonidas Akritidis , Panayiotis Bozanis , Vassilios Verykios

Accurate and efficient entity resolution is an open challenge of particular relevance to intelligence organisations that collect large datasets from disparate sources with differing levels of quality and standard. Starting from a…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Yuhang Zhang , Kee Siong Ng , Michael Walker , Pauline Chou , Tania Churchill , Peter Christen

Entity resolution (ER) is the task of identifying records belonging to the same entity (e.g. individual, group) across one or multiple databases. Ironically, it has multiple names: deduplication and record linkage, among others. In this…

Databases · Computer Science 2015-09-15 Matt Barnes

Preference-based reinforcement learning (PbRL) has shown impressive capabilities in training agents without reward engineering. However, a notable limitation of PbRL is its dependency on substantial human feedback. This dependency stems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Fengshuo Bai , Rui Zhao , Hongming Zhang , Sijia Cui , Ying Wen , Yaodong Yang , Bo Xu , Lei Han

A common method to reduce the uncertainty of causal inferences from experiments is to assign treatments in fixed proportions within groups of similar units: blocking. Previous results indicate that one can expect substantial reductions in…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-08-31 Fredrik Sävje

Entity resolution (ER) is a fundamental task in data integration that enables insights from heterogeneous data sources. The primary challenge of ER lies in classifying record pairs as matches or nonmatches, which in multi-source ER (MS-ER)…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Victor Christen , Peter Christen

One of the most important tasks for improving data quality and the reliability of data analytics results is Entity Resolution (ER). ER aims to identify different descriptions that refer to the same real-world entity, and remains a…

In electronic health records (EHRs), clustering patients and distinguishing disease subtypes are key tasks to elucidate pathophysiology and aid clinical decision-making. However, clustering in healthcare informatics is still based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Manar D. Samad , Yina Hou , Shrabani Ghosh

Epoch based memory reclamation (EBR) is one of the most popular techniques for reclaiming memory in lock-free and optimistic locking data structures, due to its ease of use and good performance in practice. However, EBR is known to be…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Daewoo Kim , Trevor Brown , Ajay Singh

In this paper, we analyze the convergence %semi-convergence properties of projected non-stationary block iterative methods (P-BIM) aiming to find a constrained solution to large linear, usually both noisy and ill-conditioned, systems of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-11 Mahdi Mirzapour , Andrzej Cegielski , Tommy Elfving

Entity Resolution (ER) is the problem of semi-automatically determining when two entities refer to the same underlying entity, with applications ranging from healthcare to e-commerce. Traditional ER solutions required considerable manual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Navapat Nananukul , Khanin Sisaengsuwanchai , Mayank Kejriwal

Finite mixtures of skew distributions provide a flexible tool for modelling heterogeneous data with asymmetric distributional features. However, parameter estimation via the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm can become very…

Computation · Statistics 2016-08-10 Sharon X Lee , Kaleb L Leemaqz , Geoffrey J McLachlan

In recent years, there is a growing need to train machine learning models on a huge volume of data. Designing efficient distributed optimization algorithms for empirical risk minimization (ERM) has therefore become an active and challenging…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Ching-pei Lee , Kai-Wei Chang

Entity resolution (ER) is the task of identifying different representations of the same real-world entities across databases. It is a key step for knowledge base creation and text mining. Recent adaptation of deep learning methods for ER…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Jungo Kasai , Kun Qian , Sairam Gurajada , Yunyao Li , Lucian Popa

Entity resolution (ER), an important and common data cleaning problem, is about detecting data duplicate representations for the same external entities, and merging them into single representations. Relatively recently, declarative rules…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Zeinab Bahmani , Leopoldo Bertossi , Nikolaos Vasiloglou

Enterprise deep research often fails to produce decision-ready reports due to uneven information coverage, context explosion, and premature stopping. We propose a scalable Enterprise Deep Research (EDR) architecture to address these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Prafulla Kumar Choubey , Kung-Hsiang Huang , Pranav Narayanan Venkit , Jiaxin Zhang , Vaibhav Vats , Yu Li , Xiangyu Peng , Chien-Sheng Wu

Spectral clustering is a popular method for effectively clustering nonlinearly separable data. However, computational limitations, memory requirements, and the inability to perform incremental learning challenge its widespread application.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Jo-Chun Chen , Hung-Hsuan Chen

The ever-growing size of training datasets enhances the generalization capability of modern machine learning models but also incurs exorbitant computational costs. Existing data pruning approaches aim to accelerate training by removing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Dongyue Wu , Zilin Guo , Jialong Zuo , Nong Sang , Changxin Gao

This paper introduces an innovative approach to boost the efficiency and scalability of Evolutionary Rule-based machine Learning (ERL), a key technique in explainable AI. While traditional ERL systems can distribute processes across…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hormoz Shahrzad , Risto Miikkulainen