Michael Cafarella

Synthesizing Data Programs

2015 · Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research

1. ABSTRACT At least two important tasks in modern data management exist outside traditional database models and query languages: data transformation and feature programs. Data transformation is the informal preprocessing code that transforms raw data …

PalimpChat: Declarative and Interactive AI analytics

2025 · arXiv (Cornell University)

Thanks to the advances in generative architectures and large language models, data scientists can now code pipelines of machine-learning operations to process large collections of unstructured data. Recent progress has seen the rise of declarative …