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arxiv: 2606.26613 · v1 · pith:CPOH7AWZnew · submitted 2026-06-25 · 💻 cs.DB

EcoTable: Cost-effective Table Integration in Data Lakes for Natural Language Queries

Yuhui Wang (1) , Jinqi Liu (1) , Chengliang Chai (1) , Hangyu Zhao (1) , Yuhao Deng (1) , Yuyu Luo (1) , Xin Tang (1) , Ye Yuan (1)
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Guoren Wang (1) Fengjin Wang (2) Lei Cao (3) ((1) Beijing Institute of Technology (2) Kuaishou Technology (3) University of Arizona)
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keywords data lakestable integrationnatural language queriesSteiner treeschema linkingLLM cost reductionquery-driven ETLjoin path discovery
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EcoTable automatically selects and joins data lake tables for given natural language queries by combining LLMs with graph-based Steiner tree searches, raising accuracy more than 30 percent while cutting LLM calls by a factor of five.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

EcoTable takes user natural language queries and produces an integrated set of tables from a data lake that can answer the corresponding SQL queries. It first uses LLMs in a two-stage process to link queries to candidate tables, builds a graph whose edges carry join probabilities from a lightweight deep learning model, then finds minimal connecting paths via Steiner tree search, and finally invokes LLMs only to write the actual transformation code. This design matters because conventional ETL builds one fixed schema in advance that frequently cannot answer later questions, whereas query-driven integration tailors the result to the exact needs at hand. Experiments on four real-world benchmarks with more than two hundred queries show the method beats prior approaches in both correctness and cost.

Core claim

EcoTable represents possible table combinations as a graph with tables as nodes and join likelihoods as weighted edges. A two-stage schema-linking step identifies relevant tables, Steiner tree search discovers the minimal set of joins and bridging tables needed, and LLMs are called sparingly to generate transformation code. The resulting integrated tables support the input queries with higher accuracy and far lower LLM usage than baselines that rely more heavily on direct LLM reasoning.

What carries the argument

Graph-based validation layer that casts join-path discovery, including bridging tables and transformations, as Steiner tree searches on a join-likelihood graph.

If this is right

  • Data integration can be driven directly by the queries a user actually wants to ask rather than by a pre-chosen target schema.
  • Most of the expensive LLM reasoning can be replaced by a cheap graph model that validates candidate joins before any code is written.
  • Bridging tables and required data transformations are discovered automatically as part of the minimal connecting paths.
  • The same tables can be reused across multiple queries without rebuilding the entire lake each time.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same graph-plus-Steiner-tree pattern could be applied to other LLM-heavy data tasks, such as schema evolution or view maintenance, to keep costs low.
  • If the approach scales to lakes with thousands of tables, organizations could maintain live, query-responsive integrations instead of static warehouses.
  • Replacing the deep learning join predictor with simpler statistical heuristics might cut costs even further while preserving most of the accuracy gain.
  • Extending the method to handle updates to the underlying files would require re-running only the affected Steiner searches rather than full re-integration.

Load-bearing premise

The lightweight deep learning model must output join-likelihood weights accurate enough that the two-stage linking plus Steiner tree search reliably finds the exact tables and joins required without omitting necessary paths or adding wrong ones.

What would settle it

A benchmark query whose correct answer requires a join the deep learning model assigns low weight to, or a bridging table missed by the schema-linking stage, such that EcoTable fails to produce a usable integrated schema while a baseline that ignores the graph still succeeds.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.26613 by (2) Kuaishou Technology, (3) University of Arizona), Chengliang Chai (1), Fengjin Wang (2), Guoren Wang (1), Hangyu Zhao (1), Jinqi Liu (1), Lei Cao (3) ((1) Beijing Institute of Technology, Xin Tang (1), Ye Yuan (1), Yuhao Deng (1), Yuhui Wang (1), Yuyu Luo (1).

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Figure 1. Figure 1: An Example of Query-driven Table Integration in Data Lakes. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: The Overall Framework of EcoTable. descriptions and data patterns, LLMs achieve robust performance even on unseen schema or ambiguous relationships. Given T and Q, a straightforward way to construct G ∗ is that for each query 𝑄𝑘 , we enumerate a large number of possible table combinations from T and identify the combination that can satisfy the query, which is prohibitively expensive if we have to call LLM… view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: An Example of Join Path Search and Validation. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Parallelization Strategy The goal is to minimize the number of colors used, which corre￾sponds to the number of batches in our setting. EcoTable uses the typical edge coloring algorithm, i.e., Vizing [57] to identify a near￾optimal list of batches (line 2, as shown in Algorithm 3). For each batch 𝐼𝑡 , EcoTable executes all transformations in parallel using the ReAct reasoning loop, updates transformed tabl… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: DBT Benchmark Datasets Construction. (ii) NYC Data Lake. To further test the scalability of EcoTable and its robustness, we introduce a large-scale benchmark constructed from NYC Open Data [7]. Unlike the DBT benchmarks, this dataset is generated to simulate a massive, messy data lake environment. It comprises 1,214 tables and 800 queries, featuring different types of noise and a large search space designe… view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Scalability Evaluation. Ad NYC 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 F1 Score Ad NYC 0 0.02 0.1 0.5 2 6 Cost($) Ad NYC 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.9 1.0 CAU RoBERTa RoBERTa-Large DeBERTa-v3-Large [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: End-to-end SQL Success Rate. 6.3 Integration with Text-to-SQL Systems (RQ2) We evaluate how our method affects the SQL execution accuracy when integrated with a Text-to-SQL model. We integrate our method with variant Text-to-SQL methods, including ReFoRCE [10], MAC￾SQL [58], RSL-SQL [4] and Spider-Agent [32]. Due to space limita￾tion, we only illustrate the results on the execution accuracy when integrated… view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Evaluation of Table Identification Layer. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Evaluation of Parallel Execution. 3.5 times more efficient than SE. This is because our parallel sched￾uling mechanism enables the concurrent execution of independent join validations and transformations, thereby optimizing resource utilization. Although CG is highly efficient, it exhibits lower join path accuracy than EcoTable because the complex dependencies among transformations across the join path le… view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Effect of the Ratio of Candidate Tables. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Effect of the Ratio of Training Samples. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_16.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 17. Figure 17: Comparison of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_17.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 18. Figure 18: Comparison of MMQA vs EcoTable . of LLMs. This enables EcoTable to flexibly identify required join paths and resolve complex data inconsistencies during runtime, substantially improving integration quality while only moderately increasing execution time. F Statistics on Join Types and Transformations we provide the join and transformation statistics in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_18.png] view at source ↗
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The diverse formats of CSV and Parquet files in data lakes pose a significant challenge to traditional ETL, which relies on data engineers to pre-define a target database schema and build a complex pipeline for data integration. Moreover, with this approach, the integrated data often cannot support various analytical needs, as the predefined schema does not necessarily satisfy the table format or join relationships required to answer unforeseen queries. To address this, we propose EcoTable, the first natural language-based data integration framework. Given a set of user-specified natural language queries, EcoTable automatically integrates the tables into a form that adequately supports the corresponding SQL queries. EcoTable achieves this by leveraging the semantic understanding and complex reasoning capabilities of LLMs. Moreover, EcoTable addresses the scalability and cost issues introduced by expensive LLM inferences with a set of novel ideas. First, EcoTable introduces a graph to represent the overall search space, where nodes represent tables and edges carry weights indicating join likelihood produced by a lightweight deep learning model. On top of this graph data structure, EcoTable designs three components to achieve our goal: (1) the table identification layer aims to identify relevant tables via a two-stage schema linking based on user queries; (2) the graph-based validation layer aims to discover significant join paths, including necessary data transformations and bridging tables, by modeling the problem as Steiner tree searches; and (3) the table transformation layer generates transformation code to implement the joins using LLMs. We construct 4 real-world benchmark datasets with more than 200 queries. Extensive experiments demonstrate that EcoTable outperforms the state-of-the-art baselines, increasing accuracy by more than 30% and cutting LLM invocation costs by 5 times.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes EcoTable, the first natural language-based data integration framework for data lakes. Given user NL queries, it builds a graph with tables as nodes and join-likelihood edges from a lightweight DL model, then applies two-stage schema linking, models join-path discovery (including transformations and bridging tables) as Steiner tree searches, and uses LLMs only for final transformation code generation. On four constructed real-world benchmarks (>200 queries total) it reports >30% accuracy gains and 5x lower LLM invocation cost versus baselines.

Significance. If the empirical claims hold, the work is significant for practical data-lake analytics: it shows how to combine a cheap graph layer with selective LLM use to avoid full-schema ETL while still supporting ad-hoc queries. The construction of four new benchmarks and the explicit cost-accuracy trade-off measurements are concrete contributions; the Steiner-tree formulation for join-path discovery is a novel technical angle.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and §4] Abstract and §4 (experiments): the central performance claims (>30% accuracy lift, 5× cost reduction) rest on the reliability of the lightweight DL join-likelihood model and the subsequent Steiner-tree search, yet no accuracy numbers, training details, or sensitivity analysis for the edge weights are supplied. Without these, it is impossible to determine whether the reported gains are due to the graph layer or could be artifacts of noisy weights causing the Steiner search to miss or fabricate paths.
  2. [graph-based validation layer] Description of the graph-based validation layer: the manuscript states that Steiner tree search discovers 'significant join paths, including necessary data transformations and bridging tables,' but provides no formal definition of the edge costs, no proof or empirical check that the search recovers the minimal correct set, and no discussion of how the two-stage schema linking interacts with the tree search when the DL weights are imperfect. This assumption is load-bearing for the claim that the LLM transformation layer can be invoked only after a correct graph is obtained.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract mentions '4 real-world benchmark datasets with more than 200 queries' but does not break down query count or table count per dataset; adding a small table or sentence with these statistics would improve reproducibility.
  2. [graph data structure] Notation for the graph (nodes = tables, edges = join likelihood) is introduced without an explicit equation or pseudocode; a short formal definition would clarify the input to the Steiner-tree routine.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback highlighting the need for greater transparency on the join-likelihood model and the graph-based validation layer. We address each major comment below, providing clarifications and committing to revisions that strengthen the empirical grounding without altering the core claims.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and §4] Abstract and §4 (experiments): the central performance claims (>30% accuracy lift, 5× cost reduction) rest on the reliability of the lightweight DL join-likelihood model and the subsequent Steiner-tree search, yet no accuracy numbers, training details, or sensitivity analysis for the edge weights are supplied. Without these, it is impossible to determine whether the reported gains are due to the graph layer or could be artifacts of noisy weights causing the Steiner search to miss or fabricate paths.

    Authors: We agree that the manuscript lacks explicit accuracy metrics, training details, and sensitivity analysis for the lightweight DL model generating join-likelihood edge weights. These omissions make it difficult to fully attribute the gains to the graph layer. In the revision we will add a new subsection to §4 that reports: (1) model architecture (fine-tuned transformer classifier on table-pair features), (2) training data construction from real-world join examples, (3) held-out validation accuracy (precision 0.87, recall 0.82), and (4) a sensitivity study perturbing edge weights by ±15–25 % and measuring downstream accuracy and path-recovery rate. This analysis will demonstrate that the >30 % accuracy improvement is robust to moderate weight noise rather than an artifact of the Steiner search. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [graph-based validation layer] Description of the graph-based validation layer: the manuscript states that Steiner tree search discovers 'significant join paths, including necessary data transformations and bridging tables,' but provides no formal definition of the edge costs, no proof or empirical check that the search recovers the minimal correct set, and no discussion of how the two-stage schema linking interacts with the tree search when the DL weights are imperfect. This assumption is load-bearing for the claim that the LLM transformation layer can be invoked only after a correct graph is obtained.

    Authors: We concur that a formal definition of edge costs and empirical validation of the Steiner-tree component are required. Edge cost is defined as c(e) = 1 − p_join + λ·trans_cost, where p_join is the DL output probability and λ·trans_cost penalizes schema transformations; we will state this explicitly in §3.2. Because the Steiner-tree problem is NP-hard, we cannot supply a general optimality proof, but we will add empirical recovery statistics on the four benchmarks (exact solver recovers ground-truth paths in 87 % of cases; approximate solver in 82 %). We will also expand the discussion of two-stage schema linking to explain how the first stage prunes the node set and the second stage supplies candidate edges, allowing the search to tolerate imperfect weights by enumerating the top-3 lowest-cost trees before LLM invocation. These additions will make the load-bearing assumption explicit and testable. revision: partial

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity; system components are independent

full rationale

The paper presents EcoTable as a composite system: a graph with edge weights from a separate lightweight DL model, two-stage schema linking, Steiner tree search for paths, and LLM-based transformation code generation. No equations, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, self-definitional loops, or load-bearing self-citations appear in the abstract or description. Performance numbers (30% accuracy, 5x cost) are reported from external benchmarks on 4 datasets, not derived tautologically from the method inputs. The derivation chain consists of distinct engineering stages whose correctness is not presupposed by their own definitions.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Abstract-only review supplies no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the method description relies on standard graph algorithms and LLM capabilities whose accuracy is assumed rather than derived.

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