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Spreadsheet formula prediction has been an important program synthesis problem with many real-world applications. Previous works typically utilize input-output examples as the specification for spreadsheet formula synthesis, where each…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Xinyun Chen , Petros Maniatis , Rishabh Singh , Charles Sutton , Hanjun Dai , Max Lin , Denny Zhou

Spreadsheets are widely recognized as the most popular end-user programming tools, which blend the power of formula-based computation, with an intuitive table-based interface. Today, spreadsheets are used by billions of users to manipulate…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Sibei Chen , Yeye He , Weiwei Cui , Ju Fan , Song Ge , Haidong Zhang , Dongmei Zhang , Surajit Chaudhuri

With the evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) we can solve increasingly more complex NLP tasks across various domains, including spreadsheets. This work investigates whether LLMs can generate code (Excel OfficeScripts, a TypeScript API…

Spreadsheets are end-user programs and domain models that are heavily employed in administration, financial forecasting, education, and science because of their intuitive, flexible, and direct approach to computation. As a result,…

Databases · Computer Science 2014-01-30 Michael Kohlhase , Corneliu Prodescu , Christian Liguda

The task of generating code from a natural language description, or NL2Code, is considered a pressing and significant challenge in code intelligence. Thanks to the rapid development of pre-training techniques, surging large language models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Daoguang Zan , Bei Chen , Fengji Zhang , Dianjie Lu , Bingchao Wu , Bei Guan , Yongji Wang , Jian-Guang Lou

We introduce SpreadsheetBench, a challenging spreadsheet manipulation benchmark exclusively derived from real-world scenarios, designed to immerse current large language models (LLMs) in the actual workflow of spreadsheet users. Unlike…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Zeyao Ma , Bohan Zhang , Jing Zhang , Jifan Yu , Xiaokang Zhang , Xiaohan Zhang , Sijia Luo , Xi Wang , Jie Tang

Spreadsheets are critical to data-centric tasks, with rich, structured layouts that enable efficient information transmission. Given the time and expertise required for manual spreadsheet layout design, there is an urgent need for automated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Qin Chen , Yuanyi Ren , Xiaojun Ma , Mugeng Liu , Han Shi , Dongmei Zhang

Large Language Models (LLM) have become sophisticated enough that complex computer programs can be created through interpretation of plain English sentences and implemented in a variety of modern languages such as Python, Java Script, C++…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Simon Thorne

Computer end users have spent billions of hours completing daily tasks like tabular data processing and project timeline scheduling. Most of these tasks are repetitive and error-prone, yet most end users lack the skill to automate these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Hongxin Li , Jingran Su , Yuntao Chen , Qing Li , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Excel is a pervasive yet often complex tool, particularly for novice users, where runtime errors arising from logical mistakes or misinterpretations of functions pose a significant challenge. While large language models (LLMs) offer…

Computational notebooks, such as Jupyter notebooks, are interactive computing environments that are ubiquitous among data scientists to perform data wrangling and analytic tasks. To measure the performance of AI pair programmers that…

While large language models (LLMs) show promise in code generation, existing benchmarks neglect the flowchart-based code generation. To promote further research on flowchart-based code generation, this work presents Flow2Code, a novel…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Mengliang He , Jiayi Zeng , Yankai Jiang , Wei Zhang , Zeming Liu , Xiaoming Shi , Aimin Zhou

Spreadsheets are widely used for table manipulation and presentation. Stylistic formatting of these tables is an important property for both presentation and analysis. As a result, popular spreadsheet software, such as Excel, supports…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Mukul Singh , José Cambronero , Sumit Gulwani , Vu Le , Carina Negreanu , Mohammad Raza , Gust Verbruggen

Spreadsheets are characterized by their extensive two-dimensional grids, flexible layouts, and varied formatting options, which pose significant challenges for large language models (LLMs). In response, we introduce SpreadsheetLLM,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Haoyu Dong , Jianbo Zhao , Yuzhang Tian , Junyu Xiong , Shiyu Xia , Mengyu Zhou , Yun Lin , José Cambronero , Yeye He , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

The Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) technique is used to convert natural language queries into executable SQL statements. Typically, slot-filling is employed as a classification method for multi-task cases to achieve this goal. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Chenduo Hao , Xu Zhang

With the growing abundance of repositories containing tabular data, discovering relevant tables for in-depth analysis remains a challenging task. Existing table discovery methods primarily retrieve desired tables based on a query table or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Lingxi Cui , Huan Li , Ke Chen , Lidan Shou , Gang Chen

Numerous knowledge workers utilize spreadsheets in business, accounting, and finance. However, a lack of systematic documentation methods for spreadsheets hinders automation, collaboration, and knowledge transfer, which risks the loss of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Amila Indika , Igor Molybog

Despite the rapid growth of machine learning research, corresponding code implementations are often unavailable, making it slow and labor-intensive for researchers to reproduce results and build upon prior work. In the meantime, recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Minju Seo , Jinheon Baek , Seongyun Lee , Sung Ju Hwang

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly tasked with producing and manipulating structured artifacts. We consider the task of end-to-end spreadsheet generation, where language models are prompted to produce spreadsheet artifacts to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Srivatsa Kundurthy , Clara Na , Michael Handley , Zach Kirshner , Chen Bo Calvin Zhang , Manasi Sharma , Emma Strubell , John Ling

Tables store rich numerical data, but numerical reasoning over tables is still a challenge. In this paper, we find that the spreadsheet formula, which performs calculations on numerical values in tables, is naturally a strong supervision of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Zhoujun Cheng , Haoyu Dong , Ran Jia , Pengfei Wu , Shi Han , Fan Cheng , Dongmei Zhang
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