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Table reasoning, including tabular QA and fact verification, often depends on annotated data or complex data augmentation, limiting flexibility and generalization. LLMs, despite their versatility, often underperform compared to simple…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yiran Rex Ma

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

We introduce a novel framework that integrates Semantic Digital Twins (SDTs) with Large Language Models (LLMs) to enable adaptive and goal-driven robotic task execution in dynamic environments. The system decomposes natural language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Mehreen Naeem , Andrew Melnik , Michael Beetz

Tabular data serves as the backbone of modern data analysis and scientific research. While Large Language Models (LLMs) fine-tuned via Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) have significantly improved natural language interaction with such…

Tabular data, widely used in various applications such as industrial control systems, finance, and supply chain, often contains complex interrelationships among its attributes. Data disentanglement seeks to transform such data into latent…

Many organizations rely on data from government and third-party sources, and those sources rarely follow the same data formatting. This introduces challenges in integrating data from multiple sources or aligning external sources with…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Arash Dargahi Nobari , Davood Rafiei

Tables and table-based use cases play a crucial role in many important real-world applications, such as spreadsheets, databases, and computational notebooks, which traditionally require expert-level users like data engineers, data analysts,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Junjie Xing , Yeye He , Mengyu Zhou , Haoyu Dong , Shi Han , Lingjiao Chen , Dongmei Zhang , Surajit Chaudhuri , H. V. Jagadish

Tabular representation learning has recently gained a lot of attention. However, existing approaches only learn a representation from a single table, and thus ignore the potential to learn from the full structure of relational databases,…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Liane Vogel , Benjamin Hilprecht , Carsten Binnig

Tabular foundation models aim to learn universal representations of tabular data that transfer across tasks and domains, enabling applications such as table retrieval, semantic search and table-based prediction. Despite the growing number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Liane Vogel , Kavitha Srinivas , Niharika D'Souza , Sola Shirai , Oktie Hassanzadeh , Horst Samulowitz

Foundation Models (FMs) are models trained on large corpora of data that, at very large scale, can generalize to new tasks without any task-specific finetuning. As these models continue to grow in size, innovations continue to push the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Avanika Narayan , Ines Chami , Laurel Orr , Simran Arora , Christopher Ré

Mathematical reasoning has long been a key benchmark for evaluating large language models. Although substantial progress has been made on math word problems, the need for reasoning over tabular data in real-world applications has been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Shi-Yu Tian , Zhi Zhou , Wei Dong , Kun-Yang Yu , Ming Yang , Zi-Jian Cheng , Lan-Zhe Guo , Yu-Feng Li

Structured data sources, such as tables, graphs, and databases, are ubiquitous knowledge sources. Despite the demonstrated capabilities of large language models (LLMs) on plain text, their proficiency in interpreting and utilizing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Alex Zhuang , Ge Zhang , Tianyu Zheng , Xinrun Du , Junjie Wang , Weiming Ren , Stephen W. Huang , Jie Fu , Xiang Yue , Wenhu Chen

Building upon the SALT benchmark for relational prediction (Klein et al., 2024), we introduce SALT-KG, a benchmark for semantics-aware learning on enterprise tables. SALT-KG extends SALT by linking its multi-table transactional data with a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Isaiah Onando Mulang , Felix Sasaki , Tassilo Klein , Jonas Kolk , Nikolay Grechanov , Johannes Hoffart

Tables have gained significant attention in large language models (LLMs) and multimodal large language models (MLLMs) due to their complex and flexible structure. Unlike linear text inputs, tables are two-dimensional, encompassing formats…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Xiaofeng Wu , Alan Ritter , Wei Xu

Can Large Language Models understand how students learn? As LLMs are deployed for adaptive testing and personalized tutoring, this question becomes urgent -- yet we cannot answer it with existing resources. Current educational datasets…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Eamon Worden , Cristina Heffernan , Neil Heffernan , Shashank Sonkar

Recent empirical studies have explored the idea of continuing to train a model at test-time for a given task, known as test-time training (TTT), and have found it to yield significant performance improvements. However, there is limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jonas Hübotter , Patrik Wolf , Alexander Shevchenko , Dennis Jüni , Andreas Krause , Gil Kur

To reduce issues like hallucinations and lack of control in Large Language Models (LLMs), a common method is to generate responses by grounding on external contexts given as input, known as knowledge-augmented models. However, previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Hyunji Lee , Sejune Joo , Chaeeun Kim , Joel Jang , Doyoung Kim , Kyoung-Woon On , Minjoon Seo

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

Tabular data, a prevalent data type across various domains, presents unique challenges due to its heterogeneous nature and complex structural relationships. Achieving high predictive performance and robustness in tabular data analysis holds…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Yucheng Ruan , Xiang Lan , Jingying Ma , Yizhi Dong , Kai He , Mengling Feng

Tabular data pervades the landscape of the World Wide Web, playing a foundational role in the digital architecture that underpins online information. Given the recent influence of large-scale pretrained models like ChatGPT and SAM across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Chao Ye , Guoshan Lu , Haobo Wang , Liyao Li , Sai Wu , Gang Chen , Junbo Zhao