Projects

Active Learning-based Interactive Database Exploration

There is an increasing gap between the fast growth of data and the limited human ability to comprehend data. Consequently, there has been a growing demand of data management tools that can bridge this gap and help the user retrieve high-value content from data more effectively. We aim to build interactive data exploration as a new database service, using an approach called “explore-by-example”.

In particular, we cast the explore-by-example problem in a principled “active learning” framework, and bring the properties of important classes of database queries to bear on the design of new algorithms and optimizations for active learningbased database exploration.