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20162026
most citedLOCATER: Cleaning WiFi Connectivity Datasets for Semantic Localization

21 citations · 31 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.DB2026

Bolt-on, Verifiable Provenance for LLM-Powered Data Processing

Yiming Lin, Sepanta Zeighami, Aditya G. Parameswaran

Large Language Models (LLMs) are powerful tools for processing data. However, LLMs are also complex black-boxes, returning answers to queries on data, without any indication for wh…

cs.DB2026

Scout: Scalable Document Extraction via Data Similarity

Yiming Lin, Chiyu Hao, Shreya Shankar +1

Extracting values from large document collections powers data analysis across many domains. Frontier LLMs extract such values accurately, but processing an entire collection with o…

cs.CV2026

MinerU-Popo: Universal Post-Processing Model for Structured Document Parsing

Bangrui Xu, Ziyang Miao, Xuanhe Zhou +7

VLM-based OCR models have become the de facto choice for document parsing, as they can accurately extract page-level elements (e.g., paragraphs within individual pages) together wi…

cs.DB2026

Can AI Agents Answer Your Data Questions? A Benchmark for Data Agents

Ruiying Ma, Shreya Shankar, Ruiqi Chen +7

However, building reliable data agents remains difficult because real enterprise data is fragmented across many heterogeneous database systems, with duplicated and inconsistent dat…

cs.DB2025

LLM-Powered Proactive Data Systems

Sepanta Zeighami, Yiming Lin, Shreya Shankar +1

With the power of LLMs, we now have the ability to query data that was previously impossible to query, including text, images, and video. However, despite this enormous potential,…

cs.DB2025★ 1 cited

Visual Template Inference for Data Extraction from Documents

Yiming Lin, Mawil Hasan, Rohan Kosalge +2

Many templatized documents are programmatically generated from structured data following a visual template. Such documents include invoices, tax documents, financial reports, and p…

cs.DB2024★ 3 cited

Towards Accurate and Efficient Document Analytics with Large Language Models

Yiming Lin, Madelon Hulsebos, Ruiying Ma +4

Unstructured data formats account for over 80% of the data currently stored, and extracting value from such formats remains a considerable challenge. In particular, current approac…

cs.DB2024

SPADE: Synthesizing Data Quality Assertions for Large Language Model Pipelines

Shreya Shankar, Haotian Li, Parth Asawa +7

Large language models (LLMs) are being increasingly deployed as part of pipelines that repeatedly process or generate data of some sort. However, a common barrier to deployment are…

cs.DB2023★ 2 cited

Auto-BI: Automatically Build BI-Models Leveraging Local Join Prediction and Global Schema Graph

Yiming Lin, Yeye He, Surajit Chaudhuri

Business Intelligence (BI) is crucial in modern enterprises and billion-dollar business. Traditionally, technical experts like database administrators would manually prepare BI-mod…

cs.DB2022

QUIP: Query-driven Missing Value Imputation

Yiming Lin, Sharad Mehrotra

Missing values widely exist in real-world data sets, and failure to clean the missing data may result in the poor quality of answers to queries. \yiming{Traditionally, missing valu…

cs.DB2020★ 21 cited

LOCATER: Cleaning WiFi Connectivity Datasets for Semantic Localization

Yiming Lin, Daokun Jiang, Roberto Yus +4

This paper explores the data cleaning challenges that arise in using WiFi connectivity data to locate users to semantic indoor locations such as buildings, regions, rooms. WiFi con…

cs.DB2016★ 3 cited

Data Source Selection for Information Integration in Big Data Era

Yiming Lin, Hongzhi Wang, Jianzhong Li +1

In Big data era, information integration often requires abundant data extracted from massive data sources. Due to a large number of data sources, data source selection plays a cruc…

cs.DB2016★ 1 cited

Efficient Entity Resolution on Heterogeneous Records

Yiming Lin, Hongzhi Wang, Jianzhong Li +1

Entity resolution (ER) is the problem of identifying and merging records that refer to the same real-world entity. In many scenarios, raw records are stored under heterogeneous env…