CurrentClean: Spatio-Temporal Cleaning of Stale Data
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Data currency is imperative towards achieving up-to-date and accurate data analysis. Data is considered current if changes in real world entities are reflected in the database. When this does not occur, stale data arises. Identifying and repairing stale data goes beyond simply having timestamps. Individual entities each have their own update patterns in both space and time. These update patterns can be learned and predicted given available query logs. In this paper, we present CurrentClean, a probabilistic system for identifying and cleaning stale values. We introduce a spatio-temporal probabilistic model that captures the database update patterns to infer stale values, and propose a set of inference rules that model spatio-temporal update patterns commonly seen in real data. We recommend repairs to clean stale values by learning from past update values over cells. Our evaluation shows CurrentClean's effectiveness to identify stale values over real data, and achieves improved error detection and repair accuracy over state-of-the-art techniques.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.003 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it