MontePrep: Monte-Carlo-Driven Automatic Data Preparation without Target Data Instances

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Autori principali: Ge, Congcong, Liu, Yachuan, Tang, Yixuan, Zhu, Yifan, Tu, Yaofeng, Gao, Yunjun
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Ge, Congcong
Liu, Yachuan
Tang, Yixuan
Zhu, Yifan
Tu, Yaofeng
Gao, Yunjun
author_facet Ge, Congcong
Liu, Yachuan
Tang, Yixuan
Zhu, Yifan
Tu, Yaofeng
Gao, Yunjun
contents In commercial systems, a pervasive requirement for automatic data preparation (ADP) is to transfer relational data from disparate sources to targets with standardized schema specifications. Previous methods rely on labor-intensive supervision signals or target table data access permissions, limiting their usage in real-world scenarios. To tackle these challenges, we propose an effective end-to-end ADP framework MontePrep, which enables training-free pipeline synthesis with zero target-instance requirements. MontePrep is formulated as an open-source large language model (LLM) powered tree-structured search problem. It consists of three pivot components, i.e., a data preparation action sandbox (DPAS), a fundamental pipeline generator (FPG), and an execution-aware pipeline optimizer (EPO). We first introduce DPAS, a lightweight action sandbox, to navigate the search-based pipeline generation. The design of DPAS circumvents exploration of infeasible pipelines. Then, we present FPG to build executable DP pipelines incrementally, which explores the predefined action sandbox by the LLM-powered Monte Carlo Tree Search. Furthermore, we propose EPO, which invokes pipeline execution results from sources to targets to evaluate the reliability of the generated pipelines in FPG. In this way, unreasonable pipelines are eliminated, thus facilitating the search process from both efficiency and effectiveness perspectives. Extensive experimental results demonstrate the superiority of MontePrep with significant improvement against five state-of-the-art competitors.
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spellingShingle MontePrep: Monte-Carlo-Driven Automatic Data Preparation without Target Data Instances
Ge, Congcong
Liu, Yachuan
Tang, Yixuan
Zhu, Yifan
Tu, Yaofeng
Gao, Yunjun
Artificial Intelligence
Databases
Machine Learning
In commercial systems, a pervasive requirement for automatic data preparation (ADP) is to transfer relational data from disparate sources to targets with standardized schema specifications. Previous methods rely on labor-intensive supervision signals or target table data access permissions, limiting their usage in real-world scenarios. To tackle these challenges, we propose an effective end-to-end ADP framework MontePrep, which enables training-free pipeline synthesis with zero target-instance requirements. MontePrep is formulated as an open-source large language model (LLM) powered tree-structured search problem. It consists of three pivot components, i.e., a data preparation action sandbox (DPAS), a fundamental pipeline generator (FPG), and an execution-aware pipeline optimizer (EPO). We first introduce DPAS, a lightweight action sandbox, to navigate the search-based pipeline generation. The design of DPAS circumvents exploration of infeasible pipelines. Then, we present FPG to build executable DP pipelines incrementally, which explores the predefined action sandbox by the LLM-powered Monte Carlo Tree Search. Furthermore, we propose EPO, which invokes pipeline execution results from sources to targets to evaluate the reliability of the generated pipelines in FPG. In this way, unreasonable pipelines are eliminated, thus facilitating the search process from both efficiency and effectiveness perspectives. Extensive experimental results demonstrate the superiority of MontePrep with significant improvement against five state-of-the-art competitors.
title MontePrep: Monte-Carlo-Driven Automatic Data Preparation without Target Data Instances
topic Artificial Intelligence
Databases
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17553