VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Sebastiano Saccani
dblp:334/7883
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
2since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 2 · 2 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 2 · 2 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
2 papers |
Generative modeling · 61% Knowledge representation and reasoning · 39% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Data integration and cleaning · 100% |
Topics — the 6 heaviest of 6, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Generative modeling
flow matching |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Graph-Conditional Flow Matching for Relational Data Generation · AAAI 2026 |
Data integration and cleaning › data generation
synthetic data generation |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Graph-Conditional Flow Matching for Relational Data Generation · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling › diffusion model
conditional sampling |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Zero-Shot Conditioning of Score-Based Diffusion Models by Neuro-Symbolic Constraints · AAAI 2025 |
Machine learning › Generative modeling
diffusion model |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Zero-Shot Conditioning of Score-Based Diffusion Models by Neuro-Symbolic Constraints · AAAI 2025 |
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Knowledge representation and reasoning
logical constraints |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Zero-Shot Conditioning of Score-Based Diffusion Models by Neuro-Symbolic Constraints · AAAI 2025 |
Knowledge, reasoning and agents › Knowledge representation and reasoning
neuro-symbolic reasoning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Zero-Shot Conditioning of Score-Based Diffusion Models by Neuro-Symbolic Constraints · AAAI 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
graph neural network · 2.0flow matching · 2.0score-based diffusion · 0.9neuro-symbolic constraints · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Graph-Conditional Flow Matching for Relational Data GenerationabstractData synthesis is gaining momentum as a privacy-enhancing technology. While single-table tabular data generation has seen considerable progress, current methods for multi-table data often lack the flexibility and expressiveness needed to capture complex relational structures. In particular, they struggle with long-range dependencies and complex foreign-key relationships, such as tables with multiple parent tables or multiple types of links between the same pair of tables. We propose a generative model for relational data that generates the content of a relational dataset given the graph formed by the foreign-key relationships. We do this by learning a deep generative model of the content of the whole relational database by flow matching, where the neural network trained to denoise records leverages a graph neural network to obtain information from connected records. Our method is flexible, as it can support relational datasets with complex structures, and expressive, as the generation of each record can be influenced by any other record within the same connected component. We evaluate our method on several benchmark datasets and show that it achieves state-of-the-art performance in terms of synthetic data fidelity. Davide Scassola, Sebastiano Saccani, Luca Bortolussi |
AAAI | 2 |
| 2025 | Zero-Shot Conditioning of Score-Based Diffusion Models by Neuro-Symbolic ConstraintsabstractScore-based diffusion models have emerged as effective approaches for both conditional and unconditional generation. Still conditional generation is based on either a specific training of a conditional model or classifier guidance, which requires training a noise-dependent classifier, even when a classifier for uncorrupted data is given. We propose a method that, given a pre-trained unconditional score-based generative model, samples from the conditional distribution under arbitrary logical constraints, without requiring additional training. Differently from other zero-shot techniques, that rather aim at generating valid conditional samples, our method is designed for approximating the true conditional distribution. Firstly, we show how to manipulate the learned score in order to sample from an un-normalized distribution conditional on a user-defined constraint. Then, we define a flexible and numerically stable neuro-symbolic framework for encoding soft logical constraints. Combining these two ingredients we obtain a general, but approximate, conditional sampling algorithm. We further developed effective heuristics aimed at improving the approximation. Finally, we show the effectiveness of our approach in approximating conditional distributions for various types of constraints and data: tabular data, images and time series. Davide Scassola, Sebastiano Saccani, Ginevra Carbone, Luca Bortolussi |
AAAI | 2 |