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Why and why-not provenance have been studied extensively in recent years. However, why-not provenance, and to a lesser degree why provenance, can be very large resulting in severe scalability and usability challenges. In this paper, we…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Seokki Lee , Bertram Ludaescher , Boris Glavic

Provenance is an increasing concern due to the ongoing revolution in sharing and processing scientific data on the Web and in other computer systems. It is proposed that many computer systems will need to become provenance-aware in order to…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-01-06 Umut A. Acar , Amal Ahmed , James Cheney , Roly Perera

Provenance sketches, light-weight indexes that record what data is needed (is relevant) for answering a query, can significantly improve performance of important classes of queries (e.g., HAVING and top-k queries). Given a horizontal…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Ziyu Liu , Boris Glavic

Provenance is a record that describes how entities, activities, and agents have influenced a piece of data; it is commonly represented as graphs with relevant labels on both their nodes and edges. With the growing adoption of provenance in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-16 David Kohan Marzagão , Trung Dong Huynh , Ayah Helal , Sean Baccas , Luc Moreau

A provenance analysis for a query evaluation or a model checking computation extracts information on how its result depends on the atomic facts of the model or database. Traditional work on data provenance was, to a large extent, restricted…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Erich Grädel , Val Tannen

Provenance is information about the origin, derivation, ownership, or history of an object. It has recently been studied extensively in scientific databases and other settings due to its importance in helping scientists judge data validity,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2008-12-03 James Cheney , Umut Acar , Amal Ahmed

Large language models have recently shown promising progress in mathematical reasoning when fine-tuned with human-generated sequences walking through a sequence of solution steps. However, the solution sequences are not formally structured…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Andrew J. Nam , Mengye Ren , Chelsea Finn , James L. McClelland

Analytic provenance can be visually encoded to help users track their ongoing analysis trajectories, recall past interactions, and inform new analytic directions. Despite its significance, provenance is often hardwired into analytics…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Arpit Narechania , Shunan Guo , Eunyee Koh , Alex Endert , Jane Hoffswell

Abductive reasoning is a popular non-monotonic paradigm that aims to explain observed symptoms and manifestations. It has many applications, such as diagnosis and planning in artificial intelligence and database updates. In propositional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Johannes Schmidt , Mohamed Maizia , Victor Lagerkvist , Johannes K. Fichte

Successful data-driven science requires complex data engineering pipelines to clean, transform, and alter data in preparation for machine learning, and robust results can only be achieved when each step in the pipeline can be justified, and…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Adriane Chapman , Luca Lauro , Paolo Missier , Riccardo Torlone

Inductive reasoning is a core problem-solving capacity: humans can identify underlying principles from a few examples, which robustly generalize to novel scenarios. Recent work evaluates large language models (LLMs) on inductive reasoning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Ruocheng Wang , Eric Zelikman , Gabriel Poesia , Yewen Pu , Nick Haber , Noah D. Goodman

The complexity of exploratory data analysis poses significant challenges for collaboration and effective communication of analytic workflows. Automated methods can alleviate these challenges by summarizing workflows into more interpretable…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Shaghayegh Esmaeili , Irelis D. Suarez , Ezekiel Ajayi , Eric D. Ragan

Large-scale registries have collected vast amounts of data which has enabled investigators to efficiently conduct studies of observational data. Common practice is for investigators to use all data meeting the inclusion criteria of their…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-08-25 Reid Dale , Jordan Rodu , Maria E. Currie , Mike Baiocchi

In this paper, we investigate how we can leverage Spark platform for efficiently processing provenance queries on large volumes of workflow provenance data. We focus on processing provenance queries at attribute-value level which is the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Rajmohan C , Pranay Lohia , Himanshu Gupta , Siddhartha Brahma , Mauricio Hernandez , Sameep Mehta

The features of a logically sound approach to a theory of statistical reasoning are discussed. A particular approach that satisfies these criteria is reviewed. This is seen to involve selection of a model, model checking, elicitation of a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Luai Al-Labadi , Zeynep Baskurt , Michael Evans

In recent years the need to simplify or to hide sensitive information in provenance has given way to research on provenance abstraction. In the context of scientific workflows, existing research provides techniques to semi automatically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Pinar Alper , Khalid Belhajjame , Carole A. Goble

Mechanistic interpretability aims to reverse engineer neural networks by uncovering which high-level algorithms they implement. Causal abstraction provides a precise notion of when a network implements an algorithm, i.e., a causal model of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Theodora-Mara Pîslar , Sara Magliacane , Atticus Geiger

Data provenance (the process of determining the origin and derivation of data outputs) has applications across multiple domains including explaining database query results and auditing scientific workflows. Despite decades of research,…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Chrysanthi Kosyfaki , Ruiyuan Zhang , Nikos Mamoulis , Xiaofang Zhou

This paper describes how automated deduction methods for natural language processing can be applied more efficiently by encoding context in a more elaborate way. Our work is based on formal approaches to context, and we provide a tableau…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Christof Monz

Datalog reasoning based on the semina\"ive evaluation strategy evaluates rules using traditional join plans, which often leads to redundancy and inefficiency in practice, especially when the rules are complex. Hypertree decompositions help…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Xinyue Zhang , Pan Hu , Yavor Nenov , Ian Horrocks