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Existing work on tabular representation learning jointly models tables and associated text using self-supervised objective functions derived from pretrained language models such as BERT. While this joint pretraining improves tasks involving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Hiroshi Iida , Dung Thai , Varun Manjunatha , Mohit Iyyer

Tabular foundation models aim to learn universal representations of tabular data that transfer across tasks and domains, enabling applications such as table retrieval, semantic search and table-based prediction. Despite the growing number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Liane Vogel , Kavitha Srinivas , Niharika D'Souza , Sola Shirai , Oktie Hassanzadeh , Horst Samulowitz

The majority of data in businesses and industries is stored in tables, databases, and data warehouses. Reasoning with table-structured data poses significant challenges for large language models (LLMs) due to its hidden semantics, inherent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Ce Li , Xiaofan Liu , Zhiyan Song , Ce Chi , Chen Zhao , Jingjing Yang , Zhendong Wang , Kexin Yang , Boshen Shi , Xing Wang , Chao Deng , Junlan Feng

Tabular deep-learning methods require embedding numerical and categorical input features into high-dimensional spaces before processing them. Existing methods deal with this heterogeneous nature of tabular data by employing separate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Boshko Koloski , Andrei Margeloiu , Xiangjian Jiang , Blaž Škrlj , Nikola Simidjievski , Mateja Jamnik

Tables stored in databases and tables which are present in web pages and articles account for a large part of semi-structured data that is available on the internet. It then becomes pertinent to develop a modeling approach with large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Soumajyoti Sarkar , Leonard Lausen

Table structure recognition (TSR) aims at extracting tables in images into machine-understandable formats. Recent methods solve this problem by predicting the adjacency relations of detected cell boxes, or learning to generate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Hangdi Xing , Feiyu Gao , Rujiao Long , Jiajun Bu , Qi Zheng , Liangcheng Li , Cong Yao , Zhi Yu

Humans can flexibly generalize knowledge across domains by leveraging structured relational representations. While prior research has shown how such representations support analogical reasoning, less is known about how they are recruited to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Guillermo Puebla , Leonidas A. A. Doumas

Learning relational tabular data has gained significant attention recently, but most studies focus on single tables, overlooking the potential of cross-table learning. Cross-table learning, especially in scenarios where tables lack shared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Zhaomin Wu , Shida Wang , Ziyang Wang , Bingsheng He

Tabular data serves as the backbone of modern data analysis and scientific research. While Large Language Models (LLMs) fine-tuned via Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) have significantly improved natural language interaction with such…

Tabular data is the most abundant data type in the world, powering systems in finance, healthcare, e-commerce, and beyond. As tabular datasets grow and span multiple related targets, there is an increasing need to exploit shared task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Dimitrios Sinodinos , Jack Yi Wei , Narges Armanfard

Large language models (LLMs) are primarily designed to understand unstructured text. When directly applied to structured formats such as tabular data, they may struggle to discern inherent relationships and overlook critical patterns. While…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Natraj Raman , Sumitra Ganesh , Manuela Veloso

Progress in deep learning highlights the tremendous potential of utilizing diverse robotic datasets for attaining effective generalization and makes it enticing to consider leveraging broad datasets for attaining robust generalization in…

Tables are a fundamental medium for organizing and analyzing data, making table reasoning a critical capability for intelligent systems. Although large language models (LLMs) exhibit strong general reasoning abilities, they still struggle…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Lang Cao , Jingxian Xu , Hanbing Liu , Jinyu Wang , Mengyu Zhou , Haoyu Dong , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

Tabular data is the foundation of the information age and has been extensively studied. Recent studies show that neural-based models are effective in learning contextual representation for tabular data. The learning of an effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Guang Liu , Jie Yang , Ledell Wu

While deep learning has achieved remarkable success across many domains, it has historically underperformed on tabular learning tasks, which remain dominated by gradient boosting decision trees. However, recent advancements are paving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Alan Arazi , Eilam Shapira , Roi Reichart

The first phase of table recognition is to detect the tabular area in a document. Subsequently, the tabular structures are recognized in the second phase in order to extract information from the respective cells. Table detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Khurram Azeem Hashmi , Marcus Liwicki , Didier Stricker , Muhammad Adnan Afzal , Muhammad Ahtsham Afzal , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

Tabular data in digital documents is widely used to express compact and important information for readers. However, it is challenging to parse tables from unstructured digital documents, such as PDFs and images, into machine-readable format…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Bin Xiao , Murat Simsek , Burak Kantarci , Ala Abu Alkheir

Tabular reasoning involves multi-step information extraction and logical inference over tabular data. While recent advances have leveraged large language models (LLMs) for reasoning over structured tables, such high-quality textual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Jun-Peng Jiang , Yu Xia , Hai-Long Sun , Shiyin Lu , Qing-Guo Chen , Weihua Luo , Kaifu Zhang , De-Chuan Zhan , Han-Jia Ye

Hierarchical knowledge structures are ubiquitous across real-world domains and play a vital role in organizing information from coarse to fine semantic levels. While such structures have been widely used in taxonomy systems, biomedical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yunhui Liu , Yongchao Liu , Yinfeng Chen , Chuntao Hong , Tao Zheng , Tieke He

Table Structure Recognition (TSR) requires the logical reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs) to handle complex table layouts, but current datasets are limited in scale and quality, hindering effective use of this reasoning…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Ruilin Zhang , Kai Yang