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Relational Database Distillation: From Structured Tables to Condensed Graph Data
Xinyi Gao, Jingxi Zhang, Lijian Chen, Tong Chen, Lizhen Cui, Hongzhi Yin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06980

Relational Database Distillation: From Structured Tables to Condensed Graph Data
Relational databases (RDBs) underpin the majority of global data management systems, where information is structured into multiple interdependent tables. To effectively use the knowledge within RDBs for predictive tasks, recent advances leverage graph representation learning to capture complex inter-table relations as multi-hop dependencies. Despite achieving state-of-the-art performance, these methods remain hindered by the prohibitive storage overhead and excessive training time, due to the m…