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Probabilistic relational models provide a well-established formalism to combine first-order logic and probabilistic models, thereby allowing to represent relationships between objects in a relational domain. At the same time, the field of…

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Tables form a central component in both exploratory data analysis and formal reporting procedures across many industries. These tables are often complex in their conceptual structure and in the computations that generate their individual…

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Data preparation, also called data wrangling, is considered one of the most expensive and time-consuming steps when performing analytics or building machine learning models. Preparing data typically involves collecting and merging data from…

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This paper proposes a relational constraint driven technique that synthesizes test cases automatically for web applications. Using a static analysis, servlets can be modeled as relational transducers, which manipulate backend databases. We…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2010-09-21 Xiang Fu

We address the task of auto-completing data cells in relational tables. Such tables describe entities (in rows) with their attributes (in columns). We present the CellAutoComplete framework to tackle several novel aspects of this problem,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Shuo Zhang , Krisztian Balog

Unstructured enterprise data such as reports, manuals and guidelines often contain tables. The traditional way of integrating data from these tables is through a two-step process of table detection/extraction and mapping the table layouts…

Databases · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Mustafa Canim , Cristina Cornelio , Arun Iyengar , Ryan Musa , Mariano Rodrigez Muro

Relational databases (RDBs) are widely used by corporations and governments to store multiple related tables. Their relational schemas pose unique challenges to synthetic data generation for privacy-preserving data sharing, e.g., for…

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Detecting synthetic tabular data is essential to prevent the distribution of false or manipulated datasets that could compromise data-driven decision-making. This study explores whether synthetic tabular data can be reliably identified ''in…

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Achieving fully autonomous driving systems requires learning rational decisions in a wide span of scenarios, including safety-critical and out-of-distribution ones. However, such cases are underrepresented in real-world corpus collected by…

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Separate programming models for data transformation (declarative) and computation (procedural) impact programmer ergonomics, code reusability and database efficiency. To eliminate the necessity for two models or paradigms, we propose a…

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Detecting synthetic tabular data is essential to prevent the distribution of false or manipulated datasets that could compromise data-driven decision-making. This study explores whether synthetic tabular data can be reliably identified…

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Business Intelligence (BI) plays a critical role in empowering modern enterprises to make informed data-driven decisions, and has grown into a billion-dollar business. Self-service BI tools like Power BI and Tableau have democratized the…

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The Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) workflow is fundamental for populating and maintaining data warehouses and other data stores accessed by analysts for downstream tasks. A major shortcoming of modern ETL solutions is the extensive need for…

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Analytical SQL is widely used in modern database applications and data analysis. However, its partitioning and grouping operators are challenging for novice users. Unfortunately, programming by example, shown effective on standard SQL, are…

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This paper presents an example-driven synthesis technique for automating a large class of data preparation tasks that arise in data science. Given a set of input tables and an out- put table, our approach synthesizes a table transformation…

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Data collaboration via Data Clean Room offers value but raises privacy concerns, which can be addressed through synthetic data and multi-table synthesizers. Common multi-table synthesizers fail to perform when subjects occur repeatedly in…

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Recursive query processing has experienced a recent resurgence, as a result of its use in many modern application domains, including data integration, graph analytics, security, program analysis, networking and decision making. Due to the…

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Foundation models, particularly those that incorporate Transformer architectures, have demonstrated exceptional performance in domains such as natural language processing and image processing. Adapting these models to structured data, like…

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Training LLMs to invoke tools and leverage retrieved information necessitates high-quality, diverse data. However, existing pipelines for synthetic data generation often rely on tens of thousands of real API calls to enhance generalization,…

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