DataSTORM is an LLM‑based agentic system designed to conduct deep research over large‑scale structured databases and internet sources. It applies principles of Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Storytelling to frame research as a thesis‑driven analytical process, iteratively generating hypotheses, performing quantitative reasoning, and crafting coherent narratives. Evaluations on InsightBench and a new ACLED‑based dataset show that DataSTORM surpasses existing systems, achieving significant improvements in insight‑level recall and summary‑level scores.
By Shicheng Liu, Yucheng Jiang, Sajid Farook, Camila Nicollier Sanchez, David Fernando Castro Pena, Monica S. Lam
arXiv:2606. 10460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent large language models (LLMs) have shown rapid progress in reading-based question answering (QA), where evidence is explicitly provided or can be trivially retrieved.
By Haonan Wang, Jiaxiang Liu, Yurong Liu, Austin Senna Wijaya, Tianle Zhou, Eden Wu, Yijia Chen, Wanting You, Reya Vir, Daniela Pinto, Grace Fan, Yusen Zhang, Juliana Freire, Eugene Wu
arXiv:2411. 19504v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The advance of large language models (LLMs) has unlocked great opportunities in complex multi-modal data management tasks, particularly in question answering (QA) over complicated multi-table relational data.
By Zipeng Qiu, Chenyue Li, You Peng, Guangxin He, Binhang Yuan, Chen Wang
arXiv:2608.29345v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While recent Large Language Model (LLM)-based text-to-SQL systems achieve impressive performance on standard benchmarks, they struggle when user querie...
By Yunfan Zhou, Qiming Shi, Yizhou Yang, Di Weng, Yingcai Wu
The paper introduces Open Tabular Insight Extraction (OpenTI), a unified framework aimed at democratizing access to insights from large table corpora. It highlights how current research is fragmented across domains like table QA, text‑to‑SQL, and data analysis agents, and shows that existing systems and benchmarks fall short of covering the full end‑to‑end scope of OpenTI. The authors propose a consolidated terminology, conduct a systematic review, and outline a research agenda for developing comprehensive OpenTI systems, evaluation methods, and interaction paradigms.
By Daniel Gomm, Maarten de Rijke, Madelon Hulsebos
arXiv:2608. 03451v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data agents enable natural-language analytics over organizational workspaces, where relevant evidence may be scattered across databases, structured files, long documents, and multimedia.
By Boyan Li, Zhuowen Liang, Yupeng Xie, Xiaotian Lin, Tianqi Luo, Xinyu Liu, Yizhang Zhu, Zhangyang Peng, Yuan Li, Zhengxuan Zhang, Jiayi Zhang, Nan Tang, Guoliang Li, Yuyu Luo
arXiv:2607. 01647v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Data science aims to derive actionable insights from heterogeneous raw data, unlocking the value of the massive amounts of data generated in modern society.
By Zhaoyan Sun, Shan Zhong, Daizhou Wen, Jiaxing Han, Guoliang Li, Ying Yan, Peng Zhang, Yu Su, Xiang Qi, Baolin Sun, Chengyuan Yang, Tao Fang, Huaiyu Ruan
arXiv:2506. 18421v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The majority of data in businesses and industries is stored in tables, databases, and data warehouses.
By Ce Li, Xiaofan Liu, Zhiyan Song, Ce Chi, Boshen Shi, Chen Zhao, Guanguang Chang, Zhendong Wang, Kexin Yang, Xing Wang, Chao Deng, Junlan Feng
The paper introduces ElephantBench, a closed‑book knowledge probe with 1,094 multi‑account factual questions generated via an auditable graph‑based pipeline that pulls documents from a low‑exposure web corpus and identifies naturally occurring disagreements. Across 32 large language models, even the best model only recovers both divergent accounts on 52.4% of questions, and most models recall one account while omitting the other, indicating persistent epistemic myopia. The study shows that scaling model size and inference‑time reasoning improves recall but does not eliminate incompleteness, and that exposure imbalance in the corpus biases models toward the dominant account.
By Zhuoshi Pan, Junru Lu, Yan Qian, H. Vicky Zhao, Di Yin, Xing Sun
arXiv:2604. 28076v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have advanced Table Question Answering, where most queries can be answered by extracting information or simple aggregation.
By An-Yang Ji, Jun-Peng Jiang, De-Chuan Zhan, Han-Jia Ye
AI systems increasingly need to combine two demanding capabilities: navigating multi-session conversation history and performing deep reading comprehension within long documents. Yet no existing benchmark evaluates both simultaneously.
arXiv:2606. 04442v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI systems increasingly need to combine two demanding capabilities: navigating multi-session conversation history and performing deep reading comprehension within long documents.
By Qiyang Xie, Jialun Wu, Xinjie He, Su Liu, Shuai Xiao, Zhiyuan Lin, Weikai Zhou