arXiv Computation and Language By Yushi Sun, Xujia Li, Nan Tang, Quanqing Xu, Chuanhui Yang, Lei Chen

LakeHopper: Knowledge-Aware Adaptation of Column Type Annotators across Data Lakes

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LakeHopper is a method for adapting column type annotators (CTA) from one data lake to another by treating cross‑lake adaptation as a knowledge‑management problem. It decomposes the source annotator’s knowledge into source‑specific, shared, and target‑specific parts, and then uses three mechanisms—label‑set realignment, LLM‑verified gap discovery, and cluster‑based propagation with rehearsal fine‑tuning—to adapt the annotator under a limited annotation budget. The approach achieves up to a 71.4% relative macro‑F1 improvement over three PLM backbones, reaches near‑full data quality with less than 6% of target labels, and trains 27–131 times faster than fine‑tuned table LLMs.

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