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Context: Tables are ubiquitous formats for data. Therefore, techniques for writing correct programs over tables, and debugging incorrect ones, are vital. Our specific focus in this paper is on rich types that articulate the properties of…

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As machine learning (ML) models and datasets increase in complexity, the demand for methods that enhance explainability and interpretability becomes paramount. Prototypes, by encapsulating essential characteristics within data, offer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Orfeas Menis-Mastromichalakis , Giorgos Filandrianos , Jason Liartis , Edmund Dervakos , Giorgos Stamou

The integration of tabular data from diverse sources is often hindered by inconsistencies in formatting and representation, posing significant challenges for data analysts and personal digital assistants. Existing methods for automating…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Arash Dargahi Nobari , Davood Rafiei

Understanding dataset semantics is crucial for effective search, discovery, and integration pipelines. To this end, column type annotation (CTA) methods associate columns of tabular datasets with semantic types that accurately describe…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Christos Koutras , Juliana Freire

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown remarkable ability in solving complex tasks, making them a promising tool for enhancing tabular learning. However, existing LLM-based methods suffer from high resource requirements, suboptimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Ruxue Shi , Hengrui Gu , Xu Shen , Xin Wang

Tables are among the most widely used tools for representing structured data in research, business, medicine, and education. Although LLMs demonstrate strong performance in downstream tasks, their efficiency in processing tabular data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Ekaterina Borisova , Fabio Barth , Nils Feldhus , Raia Abu Ahmad , Malte Ostendorff , Pedro Ortiz Suarez , Georg Rehm , Sebastian Möller

Image-based table recognition is a challenging task due to the diversity of table styles and the complexity of table structures. Most of the previous methods focus on a non-end-to-end approach which divides the problem into two separate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Nam Tuan Ly , Atsuhiro Takasu

Tabular data plays an essential role in many data analytics and machine learning tasks. Typically, tabular data does not possess any machine-readable semantics. In this context, semantic table interpretation is crucial for making data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Simon Gottschalk , Elena Demidova

Tables are pervasive in diverse documents, making table recognition (TR) a fundamental task in document analysis. Existing modular TR pipelines separately model table structure and content, leading to suboptimal integration and complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Chunxia Qin , Chenyu Liu , Pengcheng Xia , Jun Du , Baocai Yin , Bing Yin , Cong Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown to be capable of various tasks, yet their capability in interpreting and reasoning over tabular data remains an underexplored area. In this context, this study investigates from three core…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Tianyang Liu , Fei Wang , Muhao Chen

Understanding tables is an important aspect of natural language understanding. Existing models for table understanding require linearization of the table structure, where row or column order is encoded as an unwanted bias. Such spurious…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Jingfeng Yang , Aditya Gupta , Shyam Upadhyay , Luheng He , Rahul Goel , Shachi Paul

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

The success of self-supervised learning in computer vision and natural language processing has motivated pretraining methods on tabular data. However, most existing tabular self-supervised learning models fail to leverage information across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Bingzhao Zhu , Xingjian Shi , Nick Erickson , Mu Li , George Karypis , Mahsa Shoaran

The proliferation of methods for modeling of human meaning-making constitutes a powerful class of instruments for the analysis of complex semiotic systems. However, the field lacks a general theoretical framework for describing these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zachary K. Stine , James E. Deitrick

Pretrained deep-learning models are the go-to solution for images or text. However, for tabular data the standard is still to train tree-based models. Indeed, transfer learning on tables hits the challenge of data integration: finding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Myung Jun Kim , Léo Grinsztajn , Gaël Varoquaux

Tables organize valuable content in a concise and compact representation. This content is extremely valuable for systems such as search engines, Knowledge Graph's, etc, since they enhance their predictive capabilities. Unfortunately, tables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Ahmed Nassar , Nikolaos Livathinos , Maksym Lysak , Peter Staar

Interpretability has become an essential topic for artificial intelligence in some high-risk domains such as healthcare, bank and security. For commonly-used tabular data, traditional methods trained end-to-end machine learning models with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Haixiao Chi , Dawei Wang , Gaojie Cui , Feng Mao , Beishui Liao

Tabular data remains one of the most prevalent data types across a wide range of real-world applications, yet effective representation learning for this domain poses unique challenges due to its irregular patterns, heterogeneous feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Weijieying Ren , Tianxiang Zhao , Yuqing Huang , Vasant Honavar

Table detection, a pivotal task in document analysis, aims to precisely recognize and locate tables within document images. Although deep learning has shown remarkable progress in this realm, it typically requires an extensive dataset of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Iqraa Ehsan , Tahira Shehzadi , Didier Stricker , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

Over the past several years, legal applications of deep learning have been on the rise. However, as with other high-stakes decision making areas, the requirement for interpretability is of crucial importance. Current models utilized by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Rohan Bhambhoria , Hui Liu , Samuel Dahan , Xiaodan Zhu