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Logical Table-to-Text (LT2T) generation is tasked with generating logically faithful sentences from tables. There currently exists two challenges in the field: 1) Faithfulness: how to generate sentences that are factually correct given the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Yilun Zhao , Zhenting Qi , Linyong Nan , Lorenzo Jaime Yu Flores , Dragomir Radev

Table-to-text generation aims at automatically generating text to help people conveniently obtain salient information in tables. Recent works explicitly decompose the generation process into content planning and surface generation stages,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Liang Li , Ruiying Geng , Chengyang Fang , Bing Li , Can Ma , Binhua Li , Yongbin Li

Transcribing structured data into natural language descriptions has emerged as a challenging task, referred to as "data-to-text". These structures generally regroup multiple elements, as well as their attributes. Most attempts rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Clément Rebuffel , Laure Soulier , Geoffrey Scoutheeten , Patrick Gallinari

The diversity of tables makes table detection a great challenge, leading to existing models becoming more tedious and complex. Despite achieving high performance, they often overfit to the table style in training set, and suffer from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yang Fan , Xiangping Wu , Qingcai Chen , Heng Li , Yan Huang , Zhixiang Cai , Qitian Wu

We present a comprehensive evaluation of structured decoding for text-to-table generation with large language models (LLMs). While previous work has primarily focused on unconstrained generation of tables, the impact of enforcing structural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Julian Oestreich , Lydia Müller

Recent advancements in diffusion models have notably improved the perceptual quality of generated images in text-to-image synthesis tasks. However, diffusion models often struggle to produce images that accurately reflect the intended…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Yang Zhang , Teoh Tze Tzun , Lim Wei Hern , Tiviatis Sim , Kenji Kawaguchi

Large Language Model (LLM) based text-to-speech (TTS) systems have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in handling large speech datasets and generating natural speech for new speakers. However, LLM-based TTS models are not robust as the…

We propose a novel high-performance and interpretable canonical deep tabular data learning architecture, TabNet. TabNet uses sequential attention to choose which features to reason from at each decision step, enabling interpretability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Sercan O. Arik , Tomas Pfister

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been widely adopted in conversational applications. However, their reliance on parametric knowledge limits reliability in real-world scenarios that require dynamic or domain-specific information.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Kaiqiao Han , LuAn Tang , Renliang Sun , Peng Yuan , Wei Cheng , Haoyu Wang , Wei Wang , Yizhou Sun , Haifeng Chen

Recent advances in data-to-text generation have led to the use of large-scale datasets and neural network models which are trained end-to-end, without explicitly modeling what to say and in what order. In this work, we present a neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Ratish Puduppully , Li Dong , Mirella Lapata

Sequence modeling has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on natural language and document understanding tasks. However, it is challenging to correctly serialize tokens in form-like documents in practice due to their variety of layout…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Chen-Yu Lee , Chun-Liang Li , Timothy Dozat , Vincent Perot , Guolong Su , Nan Hua , Joshua Ainslie , Renshen Wang , Yasuhisa Fujii , Tomas Pfister

Distilling large, unstructured text into a structured, condensed form such as tables is an open research problem. One of the primary challenges in automatically generating tables is ensuring their syntactic validity. Prior approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Anirudh Sundar , Christopher Richardson , Larry Heck

We present a framework for generating natural language description from structured data such as tables; the problem comes under the category of data-to-text natural language generation (NLG). Modern data-to-text NLG systems typically employ…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-08 Anirban Laha , Parag Jain , Abhijit Mishra , Karthik Sankaranarayanan

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

Structured tabular data is a fundamental data type in numerous fields, and the capacity to reason over tables is crucial for answering questions and validating hypotheses. However, constructing labeled data for complex reasoning tasks is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Zhenyu Li , Xiuxing Li , Sunqi Fan , Jianyong Wang

Apart from the high accuracy of machine learning models, what interests many researchers in real-life problems (e.g., fraud detection, credit scoring) is to find hidden patterns in data; particularly when dealing with their challenging…

Heterogeneous tabular data poses unique challenges in generative modelling due to its fundamentally different underlying data structure compared to homogeneous modalities, such as images and text. Although previous research has sought to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Xiangjian Jiang , Nikola Simidjievski , Mateja Jamnik

Transformers have shown impressive results in tabular data generation. However, they lack domain-specific inductive biases which are critical for preserving the intrinsic characteristics of tabular data. They also suffer from poor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Jiayu Li , Bingyin Zhao , Zilong Zhao , Uzair Javaid , Kevin Yee , Biplab Sikdar

Table-to-text generation aims to translate the structured data into the unstructured text. Most existing methods adopt the encoder-decoder framework to learn the transformation, which requires large-scale training samples. However, the lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-09 Shuming Ma , Pengcheng Yang , Tianyu Liu , Peng Li , Jie Zhou , Xu Sun

Transformers achieve promising performance in document understanding because of their high effectiveness and still suffer from quadratic computational complexity dependency on the sequence length. General efficient transformers are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Mingliang Zhai , Yulin Li , Xiameng Qin , Chen Yi , Qunyi Xie , Chengquan Zhang , Kun Yao , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia