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Large Language Models (LLMs) often exhibit strong linguistic abilities while remaining unreliable on multi-step reasoning tasks, particularly when deployed without additional training or fine-tuning. In this work, we study inference-time…

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Tabular data prediction is a fundamental machine learning task for many applications. Existing methods predominantly employ discriminative modeling and operate under the assumption of a fixed target column, necessitating re-training for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Ruiyu Wang , Zifeng Wang , Jimeng Sun

Language serves as a vehicle for conveying thought, enabling communication among individuals. The ability to distinguish between diverse concepts, identify fairness and injustice, and comprehend a range of legal notions fundamentally relies…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Ha-Thanh Nguyen , Wachara Fungwacharakorn , Ken Satoh

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

Acquiring high-quality data is often a significant challenge in training machine learning (ML) models for tabular prediction, particularly in privacy-sensitive and costly domains like medicine and finance. Providing natural language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Dylan Slack , Sameer Singh

Tables, typically two-dimensional and structured to store large amounts of data, are essential in daily activities like database queries, spreadsheet manipulations, web table question answering, and image table information extraction.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Weizheng Lu , Jing Zhang , Ju Fan , Zihao Fu , Yueguo Chen , Xiaoyong Du

Augmenting large language models (LLMs) with external tools is a promising avenue for developing high-performance mathematical reasoning systems. Prior tool-augmented approaches typically finetune an LLM to select and invoke a single tool…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Bohan Yao , Vikas Yadav

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

Table-based Fact Verification (TFV) aims to extract the entailment relation between statements and structured tables. Existing TFV methods based on small-scaled models suffer from insufficient labeled data and weak zero-shot ability.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Hanwen Zhang , Qingyi Si , Peng Fu , Zheng Lin , Weiping Wang

The rapid advancements in large Language models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced their reasoning capabilities, driven by various strategies such as multi-agent collaboration. However, unlike the well-established performance improvements…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Zihan Chen , Song Wang , Zhen Tan , Xingbo Fu , Zhenyu Lei , Peng Wang , Huan Liu , Cong Shen , Jundong Li

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in vision-language answering tasks. Despite their strengths, these models often encounter challenges in achieving complex reasoning tasks such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Jinhao Chen , Zhen Yang , Jianxin Shi , Tianyu Wo , Jie Tang

Large language models (LLMs) are reshaping automated fact-checking (AFC) by enabling unified, end-to-end verification pipelines rather than isolated components. While large proprietary models achieve strong performance, their closed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Malin Astrid Larsson , Harald Fosen Grunnaleite , Vinay Setty

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in interpreting visual layouts and text. However, a significant challenge remains in their ability to interpret robustly and reason over multi-tabular data presented as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Anshul Singh , Chris Biemann , Jan Strich

With advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), a major use case that has emerged is querying databases in plain English, translating user questions into executable database queries, which has improved significantly. However, real-world…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Pratyush Kumar , Kuber Vijaykumar Bellad , Bharat Vadlamudi , Aman Chadha

The table reasoning task, crucial for efficient data acquisition, aims to answer questions based on the given table. Recently, reasoning large language models (RLLMs) with Long Chain-of-Thought (Long CoT) significantly enhance reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Xuanliang Zhang , Dingzirui Wang , Keyan Xu , Qingfu Zhu , Wanxiang Che

Tabular prediction traditionally relies on gradient-boosted decision trees and deep learning models, which excel in specific tasks but lack interpretability and transferability. Reasoning large language models (LLMs) promise cross-task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Pengxiang Cai , Zihao Gao , Wanchen Lian , Jintai Chen

Tabular reasoning involves interpreting natural language queries about tabular data, which presents a unique challenge of combining language understanding with structured data analysis. Existing methods employ either textual reasoning,…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Nikhil Abhyankar , Vivek Gupta , Dan Roth , Chandan K. Reddy

Business documents often contain substantial tabular and textual information with numerical values, requiring mathematical reasoning for effective document understanding. While Small Language Models (SLMs) still struggle at this task,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Vishnou Vinayagame , Gregory Senay , Luis Martí

Recent advances in table understanding have focused on instruction-tuning large language models (LLMs) for table-related tasks. However, existing research has overlooked the impact of hyperparameter choices, and also lacks a comprehensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Naihao Deng , Rada Mihalcea

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied for tabular tasks using in-context learning. The prompt representation for a table may play a role in the LLMs ability to process the table. Inspired by prior work, we generate a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Ananya Singha , José Cambronero , Sumit Gulwani , Vu Le , Chris Parnin