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most citedAnyMatch -- Efficient Zero-Shot Entity Matching with a Small Language Model

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cs.DB2026

ML Engineering Agents - A Data Management Perspective

Arnab Phani, Elias Strauss, Tim Schuster +1

Machine learning engineering (MLE) agents are emerging as a new paradigm for automating end-to-end ML pipeline development. Using large language models for code generation and pred…

cs.CL2026

Learning how to Forget: Fine-tuning for Long-Context Sparse Attention

Matthias Seeger, Zeyu Zhang, Vihang Patil +2

A lot of prior work addressed key-value (KV) cache selection and compression by sparse attention to enable long-context inference for transformer language models without excessive…

cs.DB2026

"Will This Data Break My Task?" - Interactive Synthesis of Task-Aware Data Unit Tests

Hao Chen, Arnab Phani, Sebastian Schelter

Data is a central resource for modern enterprises and institutions, and data errors propagating through data pipelines lead to serious impact in production. Therefore, data validat…

cs.DB2026

Beyond Scale and Generation: Understanding Language Model-based Entity Matching

Zeyu Zhang, Xue Li, Iacer Calixto +2

Entity matching identifies records that refer to the same real-world entity. Language models can be adapted to this task through bi-encoder, cross-encoder, and generative matcher a…

cs.LG2026

SemPiper: Interactive Code Synthesis for Semantic Operators in Machine Learning Pipelines

Olga Ovcharenko, Luciano Duarte, Sebastian Schelter

Machine learning (ML) pipelines require extensive data preparation, feature engineering, and integration across heterogeneous sources, making them tedious and error-prone to develo…

cs.LG2026

Be Fair! Can Machine Learning Engineering Agents Adhere to Fairness Constraints?

Anna Richter, Julia Stoyanovich, Sebastian Schelter

Machine learning engineering (MLE) agents promise to automate end-to-end ML pipeline development from raw data and natural language instructions, potentially making ML accessible t…

cs.DB2026

ArtiFact: A Large-Scale Multi-Modal Cultural Heritage Dataset

Luciano Duarte, Olga Ovcharenko, Sebastian Schelter

Multi-modal data management has emerged as a central research topic in the database community, spanning data integration, semantic query processing, and data quality assessment. De…

cs.LG2026

PrismaDV: Automated Task-Aware Data Unit Test Generation

Hao Chen, Arnab Phani, Sebastian Schelter

Data is a central resource for modern enterprises, and data validation is essential for ensuring the reliability of downstream applications. However, existing automated data unit t…

cs.DB2026

stratum: A System Infrastructure for Massive Agent-Centric ML Workloads

Arnab Phani, Elias Strauss, Sebastian Schelter

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) transform how machine learning (ML) pipelines are developed and evaluated. LLMs enable a new type of workload, agentic pipeline sear…

cs.DB2026

Cost-Efficient RAG for Entity Matching with LLMs: A Blocking-based Batch Processing Framework

Chuangtao Ma, Zeyu Zhang, Arijit Khan +2

Large language models (LLMs) offer a compelling approach to entity matching (EM) in label-scarce settings, yet their matching quality is sensitive to records with ambiguous or spar…

cs.LG2026

SemPipes -- Optimizable Semantic Data Operators for Tabular Machine Learning Pipelines

Olga Ovcharenko, Matthias Boehm, Sebastian Schelter

Real-world machine learning on tabular data relies on complex data preparation pipelines for prediction, data integration, augmentation, and debugging. Designing these pipelines re…

cs.LG2025

Towards Cross-Modal Error Detection with Tables and Images

Olga Ovcharenko, Sebastian Schelter

Ensuring data quality at scale remains a persistent challenge for large organizations. Despite recent advances, maintaining accurate and consistent data is still complex, especiall…

cs.IR2025

Towards a Real-World Aligned Benchmark for Unlearning in Recommender Systems

Pierre Lubitzsch, Olga Ovcharenko, Hao Chen +2

Modern recommender systems heavily leverage user interaction data to deliver personalized experiences. However, relying on personal data presents challenges in adhering to privacy…

cs.DB2025

AmbiGraph-Eval: Can LLMs Effectively Handle Ambiguous Graph Queries?

Yuchen Tian, Kaixin Li, Hao Chen +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated strong capabilities in translating natural language into database queries, especially when dealing with complex graph-struct…

q-bio.QM2025

scSSL-Bench: Benchmarking Self-Supervised Learning for Single-Cell Data

Olga Ovcharenko, Florian Barkmann, Philip Toma +4

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has proven to be a powerful approach for extracting biologically meaningful representations from single-cell data. To advance our understanding of SS…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

AnyMatch -- Efficient Zero-Shot Entity Matching with a Small Language Model

Zeyu Zhang, Paul Groth, Iacer Calixto +1

Entity matching (EM) is the problem of determining whether two records refer to same real-world entity, which is crucial in data integration, e.g., for product catalogs or address…