12 papers
Cost-Effective Numerical QA over Semi-Structured Table: Structuring, Resolution, Planning
Feng Luo, Hui Luo, Zhifeng Bao +3
Semi-structured tables encode rich semantic information through diverse layout elements, such as hierarchical row and column headers. Answering numerical questions over such data i…
TaxoConf: Taxonomy-Guided Automatic Conference Program Organization
Daomin Ji, Zhifeng Bao, Junhao Gan
Conference program organization, the task of assembling accepted papers into a technical program, is labor-intensive. Papers must be grouped into topically coherent sessions under…
GRAFT: Graph-Matched Retrieval and Fusion of Tables in Data Lakes
Daomin Ji, Hui Luo, Zhifeng Bao +2
Autonomous data agents resolve analytical queries by retrieving and reasoning over evidence in tabular data lakes. Existing methods score tables independently against the query and…
Alignment-Guided Largest Table Overlap Size Estimation
Ge Lee, Shixun Huang, Zhifeng Bao +2
Fast estimation of the size of the largest overlap between tables enables blocking and query-by-table retrieval in large table repositories. The first and the state-of-the-art esti…
LEARNT: A Practical Estimator for Cardinality of LIKE Queries with Formal Accuracy Guarantees
Hai Lan, Zhifeng Bao, Divesh Srivastava +3
We study the problem of cardinality estimation for LIKE queries on string data, focusing on the most common patterns in real workloads: prefix, suffix, and substring queries. We pr…
Unified Data Discovery across Query Modalities and User Intents
Tingting Wang, Shixun Huang, Zhifeng Bao +4
Data discovery - retrieving relevant tables from a data lake in response to user queries - is a fundamental building block for downstream analytics. In practice, data discovery mus…
Shape-Agnostic Table Overlap Discovery: A Maximum Common Subhypergraph Approach
Ge Lee, Shixun Huang, Zhifeng Bao +3
Understanding how two tables overlap is useful for many data management tasks, but challenging because tables often differ in row and column orders and lack reliable metadata in pr…
Decomposition-Driven Multi-Table Retrieval and Reasoning for Numerical Question Answering
Feng Luo, Hai Lan, Hui Luo +4
In this paper, we study the problem of numerical multi-table question answering (MTQA) over large-scale table collections (e.g., online data repositories). This task is essential i…
A Survey on Open Dataset Search in the LLM Era: Retrospectives and Perspectives
Pengyue Li, Sheng Wang, Hua Dai +3
High-quality datasets are typically required for accomplishing data-driven tasks, such as training medical diagnosis models, predicting real-time traffic conditions, or conducting…
Table Integration in Data Lakes Unleashed: Pairwise Integrability Judgment, Integrable Set Discovery, and Multi-Tuple Conflict Resolution
Daomin Ji, Hui Luo, Zhifeng Bao +1
Table integration aims to create a comprehensive table by consolidating tuples containing relevant information. In this work, we investigate the challenge of integrating multiple t…
Dataset Discovery via Line Charts
Daomin Ji, Hui Luo, Zhifeng Bao +1
Line charts are a valuable tool for data analysis and exploration, distilling essential insights from a dataset. However, access to the underlying dataset behind a line chart is ra…
Distinctiveness Maximization in Datasets Assemblage
Tingting Wang, Shixun Huang, Zhifeng Bao +3
In this paper, given a user's query set and budget, we aim to use the limited budget to help users assemble a set of datasets that can enrich a base dataset by introducing the maxi…