Iteratively Learning Data Transformation Programs from Examples
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This document summarizes Bo Wu's Ph.D. defense on iteratively learning data transformation programs from examples. The defense discusses an approach for learning conditional statements to classify input formats and synthesizing branch transformation programs for different formats. The approach aims to maximize user correctness with minimal user effort. It presents the learning of conditional statements from example clusters, generation of branch programs, and iterative refinement of programs based on user feedback to improve accuracy. Evaluation results demonstrate the approach can efficiently generate accurate programs for real-world datasets with multiple formats and handle large datasets.
![Transformation Program
BNK: blankspace
NUM([0-9]+): 98
UWRD([A-Z]): I
LWRD([a-z]+): mage
WORD([a-zA-Z]+): Image
START:
END:
VBAR: |
…
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Conditional
statement
Branch
transformation
program
Branch
transformation
program
9.75 in|16 in HIGH x 13.75 in|19.5 in WIDE 19.5
Segment program:
return a substring
Position program:
return a position in the input
Transform value( )
switch (classify(value)) :
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1 = valueindexOf BNK. ( , NNUM, -1
pos BNK, 2
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. ( , )2 = valueindexOf NUM
output=value.substr(pos pos )
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![Our contributions
• Efficiently learning accurate conditional
statements [DINA, 2014]
• Efficiently synthesizing branch transformation
programs [IJCAI, 2015]
• Maximizing the user correctness with minimal
user effort [IUI, 2014; IUI, 2016(submitted)]
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- 1. Iteratively Learning Data Transformation Programs from Examples Ph.D. defense 2015-10-21 Bo Wu 1 Department of Computer Science
- 2. Agenda • Introduction • Previous work • Our approach – Learning conditional statements – Synthesizing branch transformation programs – Maximize user correctness with minimal effort • Related work • Conclusion and future work 2
- 3. Programming by example Accession Credit Dimensions Medium Name 01.2 Gift of the artist 5.25 in HIGH x 9.375 in WIDE Oil on canvas John Mix Stanley 05.411 Gift of James L. Edison 20 in HIGH x 24 in WIDE Oil on canvas Mortimer L. Smith 06.1 Gift of the artist Image: 20.5 in. HIGH x 17.5 in. WIDE Oil on canvas Theodore Scott Dabo 06.2 Gift of the artist 9.75 in|16 in HIGH x 13.75 in|19.5 in WIDE Oil on canvas Leon Dabo … 09.8 Gift of the artist 12 in|14 in HIGH x 16 in|18 in WIDE Oil on canvas Gari Melchers 3
- 4. Programming by Example Raw Value Target Value R1 5.25 in HIGH x 9.375 in WIDE R2 20 in HIGH x 24 in WIDE R3 9.75 in|16 in HIGH x 13.75 in|19.5 in WIDE R4 Image: 20.5 in. HIGH x 17.5 in. WIDE R5 12 in|14 in HIGH x 16 in|18 in WIDE . . . 4 9.375 24 null 17.5 null 24 19.5 17.5 null 24 19.5 17.5 18
- 5. Challenges • Various formats and few examples • Stringent time limits • Verifying the correctness on large datasets 5
- 6. Research problem Enabling PBE approaches to efficiently generate correct transformation programs for large datasets with multiple formats using minimal user effort 6
- 7. Examining records and providing examples Synthesizing programs and transforming records Examples Transformed records Users PBE systems Iterative Transformation
- 8. Agenda • Introduction • Previous work • Our approach – Learning conditional statements – Synthesizing branch transformation programs – Maximize user correctness with minimal effort • Related work • Conclusion and future work 8
- 9. R1, R2, R4 GUI Conditional Statement Synthesizing Example Cluster 1 Example Cluster K… Learning Classifier Examples Branch Program 1 Branch Program k… Combining Transformation program Clustering Synthesizing… R1 5.25 in HIGH x 9.375 in WIDE 9.375 R2 20 in HIGH x 24 in WIDE 24 R3 9.75 in|16 in HIGH x 13.75 in|19.5 in WIDE 19.5 R4 Image: 20.5 in. HIGH x 17.5 in. WIDE 17.5 R3 classify substring(pos1, pos2) substring(pos3, pos4)
- 10. Transformation Program BNK: blankspace NUM([0-9]+): 98 UWRD([A-Z]): I LWRD([a-z]+): mage WORD([a-zA-Z]+): Image START: END: VBAR: | … 10 Conditional statement Branch transformation program Branch transformation program 9.75 in|16 in HIGH x 13.75 in|19.5 in WIDE 19.5 Segment program: return a substring Position program: return a position in the input Transform value( ) switch (classify(value)) : case format : pos 1 1 = valueindexOf BNK. ( , NNUM, -1 pos BNK, 2 ) . ( , )2 = valueindexOf NUM output=value.substr(pos pos ) ca 1 2, sse format pos NUM 2 3 : . ("|",= value indexOf ,, 2 pos -1 ) . ( , , )4 = value indexOf NUM BNK output=value.substr(pos pos ) retur 3 4, nn output
- 11. Creating Hypothesis Spaces • Create traces • Derive hypothesis spaces 11 Traces: A trace here defines how the output string is constructed from a specific set of substrings from the input string.
- 12. • Generate programs from hypothesis space – Generate-and-test – Generate simpler programs first Programs with one segment programs earlier than Programs with three segment programs Generating Branch Programs 12
- 13. R1 5.25 in HIGH x 9.375 in WIDE 9.375 R2 20 in HIGH x 24 in WIDE 24 R4 Image: 20.5 in. HIGH x 17.5 in. WIDE 17.5 Learning Conditional Statements 13 R3 9.75 in|16 in HIGH x 13.75 in|19.5 in WIDE 19.5 • Cluster examples • Learn a multiclass classifier • Recognize the format of the inputs Cluster1-format1 Cluster2-format2 R5 Image: 20.5 in. HIGH x 17.5 in. WIDE R6 12 in|14 in HIGH x 16 in|18 in WIDE format1 format2
- 14. Agenda • Introduction • Previous work • Our approach – Learning conditional statements – Synthesizing branch transformation programs – Maximize user correctness with minimal effort • Related work • Conclusion and future work 14
- 15. Our contributions • Efficiently learning accurate conditional statements [DINA, 2014] • Efficiently synthesizing branch transformation programs [IJCAI, 2015] • Maximizing the user correctness with minimal user effort [IUI, 2014; IUI, 2016(submitted)] 15
- 16. Agenda • Introduction • Previous work • Our approach – Learning conditional statements – Synthesizing branch transformation programs – Maximize user correctness with minimal effort • Related work • Conclusion and future work 16
- 17. Motivation • Example clustering is time consuming – Many ways (2n) to cluster the examples – Many examples are not compatible – Verifying compatibility is expensive • Learned conditional statement is not accurate – Users are willing to provide a few examples 17 R1 5.25 in HIGH x 9.375 in WIDE 9.375 R2 20 in HIGH x 24 in WIDE 24 R3 9.75 in|16 in HIGH x 13.75 in|19.5 in WIDE 19.5 ✕
- 18. Utilizing known compatibilities 18 R1 5.25 in HIGH x 9.375 in WIDE 9.375 R2 20 in HIGH x 24 in WIDE 24 R3 9.75 in|16 in HIGH x 13.75 in|19.5 in WIDE 19.5 ✕After providing 3 examples After providing 4 examples R1 R2 R3 R4 R1 R2 R3 ✕
- 19. Constraints • Two types of constraints: • Cannot-merge constraints: Ex: • Must-merge constraints: Ex: 5.25 in HIGH x 9.375 in WIDE 9.375 9.75 in|16 in HIGH x 13.75 in|19.5 in WIDE 13.75 20 in HIGH x 24 in WIDE 24 5.25 in HIGH x 9.375 in WIDE 9.375 20 in HIGH x 24 in WIDE 24 19
- 20. Constrained Agglomerative Clustering R1 20 R2 R3 R4 R1 R4 R2 R3 R1 R2 R4 R3 Distance between clusters (pi and pj) : R1 5.25 in HIGH x 9.375 in WIDE R4 Image: 20.5 in. HIGH x 17.5 in. WIDE R1 5.25 in HIGH x 9.375 in WIDE R2 20 in HIGH x 24 in WIDE R3 9.75 in|16 in HIGH x 13.75 in|19.5 in WIDE ✕
- 21. Distance Metric Learning • Distance metric learning • Objective function far away Close to each other 21
- 23. Evaluation • Dataset: – 30 editing scenarios collected from student course projects • Methods: – SP • The state-of-the-art approach that uses compatibility score to select partitions to merge – SPIC • Utilize previous constraints besides using compatibility score – DP • Learn distance metric – DPIC • Utilize previous constraints besides learning distance metric – DPICED • Our approach in this paper 23 Avg records Min formats Max formats Avg formats 350 2 12 4.4
- 25. Agenda • Introduction • Previous work • Our approach – Learning conditional statements – Synthesizing branch transformation programs – Maximize user correctness with minimal effort • Related work • Conclusion and future work 25
- 26. Learning Transformation Programs by Example Input Data Target Data 2000 Ford Expedition 11k runs great los angeles $4900 (los angeles) 1998 Honda Civic 12k miles s. Auto. - $3800 (Arcadia) 2008 Mitsubishi Galant ES $7500 (Sylmar CA) pic 1996 Isuzu Trooper 14k clean title west covina $999 (west covina) pic … … 2000 Ford Expedition los angeles $4900 1998 Honda Civic 12k miles s. Auto. - $3800 (Arcadia) 2008 Mitsubishi Galant ES $7500 (Sylmar CA) pic 1998 Honda Civic Arcadia $3800 2008 Mitsubishi Galant Sylmar CA $7500 1996 Isuzu Trooper west covina $999 Time complexity is exponential in the number and a high polynomial in the length of examples 10/11/2016 26
- 27. Reuse subprograms After 1st example After 2nd example After 3rd example 27
- 28. Identify incorrect subprograms Input Output 2000 Ford Expedition 11k runs great los angeles $4900 (los angeles) 2000 Ford Expedition los angeles $4900 1998 Honda Civic 12k miles s. Auto. - $3800 (Arcadia) 1998 Honda Civic Arcadia $3800 (START, NUM, 1) (BNK, NUM, 1) (’(’, WORD, 1) (LWRD, ’)', 1) (ANY,BNK’$', 1) (NUM, BNK, 2)Program 2008 Mitsubishi Galant ES $7500 (Sylmar CA) picInput: Execution Result: ␣$7500 NullNull 0 -1 33 -1 2008 Mitsubishi Galant Sylmar CA $7500 Target output: 33 430 23 ≠ = ≠ = 10/11/2016 28
- 29. Update hypothesis spaces (START, NUM, 1) (BNK, NUM, 1) (’(’, WORD, 1) (LWRD, ’)', 1) (ANY,BNK’$', 1)Program Hypothesis H3 2000 Ford Expedition 11k runs great los angeles $4900 (los angeles) 1998 Honda Civic 12k miles s. Auto. - $3800 (Arcadia) h33h32h31 H3 h31 s h31 e h32 s h32 e h32 e Left context: • LWRD • WORD • … Right context: • “)” • … 2008 Mitsubishi Galant ES $7500 (Sylmar CA) pic h32 e Left context: • WORD • … Right context: • “)” • … 10/11/2016 29
- 30. • Dataset – D1: 17 scenarios used in (Lin et al., 2014) • 5 records per scenario – D2: 30 scenarios collected from student data integration projects • about 350 records per scenario – D3: synthetic dataset • designed to evaluate scale-up • Alternative approaches – Our implementation of Gulwani’s approach: (Gulwani, 2011) – Metagol: (Lin et al., 2014) • Metric – Time (in seconds) to generate a transformation program Evaluation 30
- 31. Program generation time comparisons Table: time (in seconds) to generate programs on D1 and D2 datasets Figure: scalability test on D3 D3 10/11/2016 31
- 32. Agenda • Introduction • Previous work • Our approach – Learning conditional statements – Synthesizing branch transformation programs – Maximize user correctness with minimal effort • Related work • Conclusion and future work 32
- 33. Motivation 33 • Thousands of records in datasets • Various transformation scenarios • Overconfident users
- 35. Learning from various past results 35 … Raw Transformed 26" H x 24" W x 12.5 26 Framed at 21.75" H x 24.25” W 21 12" H x 9" 12 … Raw Transformed Ravage 2099#24 (November, 1994) November, 1994 Gambit III#1 (September, 1997) September, 1997 (comic) Spidey Super Stories#12/2 (September, 1975) comic … Examples Incorrect records Correct records
- 36. Approach Overview 36 Raw Transformed 10“ H x 8” W 10 H: 58 x W:25” 58 12”H x 9”W 12 11”H x 6” 11 … … 30 x 46” 30 x 46 Entire dataset Random Sampling Raw Transformed 10“ H x 8” W 10 11”H x 6” 11 … … 30 x 46” 30 x 46 Sampled records Verifying records Raw Transformed 11”H x 6” 11 30 x 46” 30 x 46 … … Sorting and color-codingRaw Transformed 30 x 46” 30 x 46 11”H x 6” 11 … …
- 37. Verifying Records • Recommend records causing runtime errors – Records cause the program exit abnormally • Recommend potentially incorrect records – Learn a binary meta-classifier 37 Program: (LWRD, ‘)’, 1) Input: 2008 Mitsubishi Galant ES $7500 (Sylmar CA) pic Raw Transformed 11”H x 6” 11 30 x 46” 30 x 46 … … Ex:
- 38. Learning the Meta-classifier 38 Learn an ensemble of classifiers using ADABOOST: (1) Select a fi from a pool of binary classifiers (2) Assign weight wi to fi (3) Loop until error below a threshold
- 39. Dataset: 30 scenarios 350 records per scenario Experiment setup: • Approach-β • Baseline Metrics: • Iteration correctness • MRR Evaluation 39
- 40. Agenda • Introduction • Previous work • Our approach – Learning conditional statements – Synthesizing branch transformation programs – Maximize user correctness with minimal effort • Related work • Conclusion and future work 40
- 41. Related Work • Approaches not focusing on data transformation – Wrapper induction • Kushmerick,1997; Hsu and Dung, 1998; Muslea et al., 1999 – Inductive programming (we learn ) • Summers, 1977; Kitzelmam and Schmid, 2006;Shaprio, 1981; Muggleton and Lin, 2013 • Approaches not learning program iteratively • FlashFill (Gulwani, 2011); SmartPython (Lau, 2001), SmartEdit (Lau, 2001); Singh and Gulwani 2012; Raza et al., 2014; Harris, et al., 2011 – Approaches learning part of the programs iteratively • MetagolDF (Lin et al., 2014); Preleman, et al 2014 41
- 42. Conclusion: contributions • Enable users to generate complicated programs in real time • Enable users to work on large datasets • Improve the performance of other PBE approaches 42
- 43. Conclusion: future work • Managing user expectation • Incorporating third-party functions • Handling user errors 43
- 44. 44 Questions ?
Editor's Notes
- #4: To do: Change the table format here
- #6: One figure for one bullet and one built in for one bullet.
- #10: Remove
- #11: Transformation programs Conditional / branch Branch is a concatenation of several segment programs Segment program basically returns a substring One way of specifying the segment program is to specify where to extract this substring from the input.
- #12: Creating traces Derive hypothesis space 1.Node contains all 2. Edges contains all the segment programs 3. Each path contains all the programs that transform the inputs into the outputs
- #15: 18:08
- #17: 18:08
- #19: Provide the intuition here
- #20: Every time user provides an example, the system will tries to generate a program. During this process, the system has figure out certain programs shouldn’t be put into same partition and certain examples can be put into same partition. We use two types of constraints to model this information
- #22: The reason why learning a distance metric Why weighted eucldiean distance How to model the two constraints
- #24: Verifying 3 design decisions Whether using constraints from previous iterations are helpful Whether the learned distance metric can outperform directly applying euclidean distance and CBS Whether incorprating unlabeled data is helpful
- #26: 35 mininutes
- #27: Syntax transformation entity extraction.
- #28: Trace specifies one way of generating the Program from the trace will look like ….
- #29: Change color of the dashed lines
- #33: 12 minutes
- #35: buildin
- #39: How detail should I describe the classifiers
- #41: 15 minutes