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Temporal reasoning over tabular data presents substantial challenges for large language models (LLMs), as evidenced by recent research. In this study, we conduct a comprehensive analysis of temporal datasets to pinpoint the specific…

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Large language models (LLMs) are becoming attractive as few-shot reasoners to solve Natural Language (NL)-related tasks. However, the understanding of their capability to process structured data like tables remains an under-explored area.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Yuan Sui , Mengyu Zhou , Mingjie Zhou , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

Extracting valuable facts or informative summaries from multi-dimensional tables, i.e. insight mining, is an important task in data analysis and business intelligence. However, ranking the importance of insights remains a challenging and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Qi Zeng , Liangchen Luo , Wenhao Huang , Yang Tang

Generating insightful and actionable information from databases is critical in data analysis. This paper introduces a novel approach using Large Language Models (LLMs) to automatically generate textual insights. Given a multi-table database…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Alberto Sánchez Pérez , Alaa Boukhary , Paolo Papotti , Luis Castejón Lozano , Adam Elwood

Large models have demonstrated significant progress across various domains, particularly in tasks related to text generation. In the domain of Table to Text, many Large Language Model (LLM)-based methods currently resort to modifying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Junyi Bian , Xiaolei Qin , Wuhe Zou , Mengzuo Huang , Congyi Luo , Ke Zhang , Weidong Zhang

Tabular foundation models are becoming increasingly popular for low-resource tabular problems. These models make up for small training datasets by pretraining on large volumes of synthetic data. The prior knowledge obtained via pretraining…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 George Yakushev , Alina Shutova , Ivan Rubachev , Natalia Bereberdina , Renat Sergazinov , Artem Babenko

Commonsense reasoning deals with the implicit knowledge that is well understood by humans and typically acquired via interactions with the world. In recent times, commonsense reasoning and understanding of various LLMs have been evaluated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Abhinav Joshi , Areeb Ahmad , Divyaksh Shukla , Ashutosh Modi

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in natural language tasks, yet understanding their reasoning processes remains a significant challenge. We address this by introducing XplainLLM, a dataset accompanying an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zichen Chen , Jianda Chen , Ambuj Singh , Misha Sra

In recent years, table reasoning has garnered substantial research interest, particularly regarding its integration with Large Language Models (LLMs), which have revolutionized natural language applications. Existing LLM-based studies…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Qingyang Mao , Qi Liu , Zhi Li , Mingyue Cheng , Zheng Zhang , Rui Li

The paper presents our system developed for table question answering (TQA). TQA tasks face challenges due to the characteristics of real-world tabular data, such as large size, incomplete column semantics, and entity ambiguity. To address…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Sishi Xiong , Dakai Wang , Yu Zhao , Jie Zhang , Changzai Pan , Haowei He , Xiangyu Li , Wenhan Chang , Zhongjiang He , Shuangyong Song , Yongxiang Li

This work presents a framework for assessing whether large language models (LLMs) encode more factual knowledge in their parameters than what they express in their outputs. While a few studies hint at this possibility, none has clearly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Zorik Gekhman , Eyal Ben David , Hadas Orgad , Eran Ofek , Yonatan Belinkov , Idan Szpektor , Jonathan Herzig , Roi Reichart

Large Language Models (LLMs), while being increasingly dominant on a myriad of knowledge-intensive activities, have only had limited success understanding lengthy table-text mixtures, such as academic papers and financial reports. Recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Yikang Pan , Yi Zhu , Rand Xie , Yizhi Liu

Large Language Models (LLMs) trained on large volumes of data excel at various natural language tasks, but they cannot handle tasks requiring knowledge that has not been trained on previously. One solution is to use a retriever that fetches…

Current Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit limited ability to understand table structures and to apply precise numerical reasoning, which is crucial for tasks such as table question answering (TQA) and table-based fact verification (TFV).…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Xinyuan Lu , Liangming Pan , Yubo Ma , Preslav Nakov , Min-Yen Kan

Reasoning over tabular data is a crucial capability for tasks like question answering and fact verification, as it requires models to comprehend both free-form questions and semi-structured tables. However, while methods like…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Qixian Huang , Hongqiang Lin , Tong Fu , Yingsen Wang , Zhenghui Fu , Qirui Wang , Yiding Sun , Dongxu Zhang

Table Question Answering (TableQA) poses a significant challenge for large language models (LLMs) because conventional linearization of tables often disrupts the two-dimensional relationships intrinsic to structured data. Existing methods,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Seho Pyo , Jiheon Seok , Jaejin Lee

Recent language models enable new opportunities for structured reasoning with text, such as the construction of intuitive, proof-like textual entailment trees without relying on brittle formal logic. However, progress in this direction has…

Table images present unique challenges for effective and efficient understanding due to the need for question-specific focus and the presence of redundant background regions. Existing Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) approaches often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Jongha Kim , Minseong Bae , Sanghyeok Lee , Jinsung Yoon , Hyunwoo J. Kim

People primarily consult tables to conduct data analysis or answer specific questions. Text generation systems that can provide accurate table summaries tailored to users' information needs can facilitate more efficient access to relevant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Yilun Zhao , Zhenting Qi , Linyong Nan , Boyu Mi , Yixin Liu , Weijin Zou , Simeng Han , Ruizhe Chen , Xiangru Tang , Yumo Xu , Dragomir Radev , Arman Cohan

Fact-seeking question answering with large language models (LLMs) remains unreliable when answers depend on up-to-date or conflicting information. Although retrieval-augmented and tool-using LLMs reduce hallucinations, they often rely on…

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