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Tabular data is often hidden in text, particularly in medical diagnostic reports. Traditional machine learning (ML) models designed to work with tabular data, cannot effectively process information in such form. On the other hand, large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Aleksa Bisercic , Mladen Nikolic , Mihaela van der Schaar , Boris Delibasic , Pietro Lio , Andrija Petrovic

As real-world tasks grow increasingly complex, long-context reasoning has become a core capability for Large Language Models (LLMs). However, few studies explore which data types are effective for long-context reasoning and why. We find…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Huaibing Xie , Guoliang Zhao , Yang Liu , Shihan Dou , Siming Huang , Yanling Xiao , Shaolei Wang , Yiting Liu , Cheng Zhang , Shaofan Liu , Pluto Zhou

Despite the remarkable capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4, producing complex, structured tabular data remains challenging. Our study assesses LLMs' proficiency in structuring tables and introduces a novel fine-tuning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Xiangru Tang , Yiming Zong , Jason Phang , Yilun Zhao , Wangchunshu Zhou , Arman Cohan , Mark Gerstein

The increasing adoption of large language models (LLMs) has raised serious concerns about their reliability and trustworthiness. As a result, a growing body of research focuses on evidence-based text generation with LLMs, aiming to link…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Tobias Schreieder , Tim Schopf , Michael Färber

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Irwin Deng , Kushagra Dixit , Vivek Gupta , Dan Roth

Table-to-text generation, a long-standing challenge in natural language generation, has remained unexplored through the lens of subjectivity. Subjectivity here encompasses the comprehension of information derived from the table that cannot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Tathagata Dey , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

Recently, many versatile Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have emerged continuously. However, their capacity to query information depicted in visual charts and engage in reasoning based on the queried contents remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Renqiu Xia , Bo Zhang , Hancheng Ye , Xiangchao Yan , Qi Liu , Hongbin Zhou , Zijun Chen , Peng Ye , Min Dou , Botian Shi , Junchi Yan , Yu Qiao

Synthetic tabular data generation is increasingly essential in data management, supporting downstream applications when real-world and high-quality tabular data is insufficient. Existing tabular generation approaches, such as generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Mingxuan Jiang , Yongxin Wang , Ziyue Dai , Yicun Liu , Hongyi Nie , Sen Liu , Hongfeng Chai

Current IR evaluation is based on relevance judgments, created either manually or automatically, with decisions outsourced to Large Language Models (LLMs). We offer an alternative paradigm, that never relies on relevance judgments in any…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Naghmeh Farzi , Laura Dietz

Table Structure Recognition (TSR) requires the logical reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs) to handle complex table layouts, but current datasets are limited in scale and quality, hindering effective use of this reasoning…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Ruilin Zhang , Kai Yang

Text generation from a knowledge base aims to translate knowledge triples to natural language descriptions. Most existing methods ignore the faithfulness between a generated text description and the original table, leading to generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Zhenyi Wang , Xiaoyang Wang , Bang An , Dong Yu , Changyou Chen

Reliable data quality is crucial for downstream analysis of tabular datasets, yet rule-based validation often struggles with inefficiency, human intervention, and high computational costs. We present a three-stage framework that combines…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ashlesha Akella , Akshar Kaul , Krishnasuri Narayanam , Sameep Mehta

Scientific documents contain tables that list important information in a concise fashion. Structure and content extraction from tables embedded within PDF research documents is a very challenging task due to the existence of visual features…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Pratik Kayal , Mrinal Anand , Harsh Desai , Mayank Singh

Unsupervised methods are widely used to induce latent semantic structure from large text collections, yet their outputs often contain incoherent, redundant, or poorly grounded clusters that are difficult to validate without labeled data. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Tunazzina Islam

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong potential for tabular data generation by modeling textualized feature-value pairs. However, tabular data inherently exhibits sparse feature-level dependencies, where many feature interactions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Zheyu Zhang , Shuo Yang , Bardh Prenkaj , Gjergji Kasneci

Tabular foundation models such as TabPFN and TabICL already produce full predictive distributions, yet prevailing regression benchmarks evaluate them almost exclusively via point-estimate metrics (RMSE, $R^2$). This discards precisely the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jonas Landsgesell , Pascal Knoll , Tizian Wenzel

In tabular prediction tasks, tree-based models combined with automated feature engineering methods often outperform deep learning approaches that rely on learned representations. While these feature engineering techniques are effective,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Jaehyun Nam , Kyuyoung Kim , Seunghyuk Oh , Jihoon Tack , Jaehyung Kim , Jinwoo Shin

This study presents a framework for automated evaluation of dynamically evolving topic models using Large Language Models (LLMs). Topic modeling is essential for organizing and retrieving scholarly content in digital library systems,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Zhiyin Tan , Jennifer D'Souza

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced text generation capabilities, yet evaluating their performance in generative writing remains a challenge. Existing benchmarks primarily focus on generic text…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Yuning Wu , Jiahao Mei , Ming Yan , Chenliang Li , Shaopeng Lai , Yuran Ren , Zijia Wang , Ji Zhang , Mengyue Wu , Qin Jin , Fei Huang

Foundation models have established unified representations for natural language processing, yet this paradigm remains largely unexplored for tabular data. Existing methods face fundamental limitations: LLM-based approaches lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Minjie Qiang , Mingming Zhang , Xiaoyi Bao , Xing Fu , Yu Cheng , Weiqiang Wang , Zhongqing Wang , Ningtao Wang