arXiv AI

ProgramTab: Boosting Table Reasoning of LLMs via Programmatic Paradigm

arXiv:2607. 11207v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Table-based reasoning with large language models (LLMs), which requires reasoning based on natural language questions and structured tabular data, has gained widespread attention.

arXiv AI
Aug 26

PARTAB: Partition-Aware Reasoning with Structured Evidence for Scalable Table Understanding

PARTAB is a framework that improves large language model reasoning on tables by constructing a structured evidence interface. It represents query‑relevant evidence as semantically coherent, row‑linked table regions and performs hierarchical selection over column groups and row‑level partitions before composing the evidence for answer generation. Evaluations on multiple table reasoning benchmarks show that PARTAB consistently outperforms full‑table prompting and recent methods, achieving strong performance on WikiTableQuestions and TabFact while remaining competitive on numerical reasoning tasks.

By Md Mahadi Hasan Nahid, Davood Rafiei
arXiv AI
Sep 4

TabScope: Question-Adaptive Scope Selection for Table Question Answering

TabScope introduces a question‑adaptive framework for table question answering that dynamically chooses between localized and full‑table reasoning. It constructs question‑specific sub‑tables via operation‑aware decomposition and predicts the question type to select the appropriate reasoning mode. Experiments on WikiTQ and the new SLQA benchmark show that localization improves lookup and local reasoning questions, while adaptive selection yields the best overall performance on long tables.

By Yuxiang Wang, Junhao Gan, Jianzhong Qi
arXiv AI
Sep 15

Beyond Quacking: Deep Integration of Language Models and RAG into DuckDB

The paper introduces FlockMTL, an extension for database management systems that deeply integrates large language models and retrieval‑augmented generation into DuckDB. It provides model‑driven scalar and aggregate functions, cost‑based optimizations like batching and caching, and new SQL DDL abstractions (PROMPT and MODEL) to treat LLMs as first‑class schema objects. These features aim to simplify the development of knowledge‑intensive analytical applications by reducing the effort required to orchestrate heterogeneous data systems and manage LLM context.

By Anas Dorbani, Sunny Yasser, Jimmy Lin, Amine Mhedhbi
arXiv Computation and Language
4d ago

IESR:Efficient MCTS-Based Modular Reasoning for Text-to-SQL with Large Language Models

arXiv:2602.05385v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Text-to-SQL is a key natural language processing task that maps natural language questions to SQL queries, enabling intuitive interaction with web-...

By Tao Liu, Jiafan Lu, Bohan Yu, Pengcheng Wu, Liu Haixin, Guoyu Xu, Li Xiangheng, Lixiao Li, Jiaming Hou, Zhao Shijun, Xinglin Lyu, Kunli Zhang, Yuxiang Jia, Hongyin Zan
arXiv AI
Aug 28

Beyond Linearization: Attributed Table Graphs for Table Reasoning

The paper introduces Table Graph Reasoner (TabGR), a model that represents tables as an Attributed Table Graph (ATG) to preserve row-column-cell structure and enable graph-based reasoning without task-specific training. It also proposes a Question-Guided Personalized PageRank (QG-PPR) mechanism to rerank tabular data and address the lost-in-the-middle issue. Experiments on multiple table reasoning benchmarks show that TabGR outperforms state-of-the-art models by up to 9.7% in accuracy.

By Yuxiang Wang, Junhao Gan, Shengxiang Gao, Shenghao Ye, Zhengyi Yang, Jianzhong Qi
arXiv AI
Sep 7

TeleTables: A Benchmark for Large Language Models in Telecom Table Interpretation

TeleTables is a benchmark that evaluates large language models on interpreting telecom tables from 3GPP specifications. It contains 2,220 tables in four formats and 500 human‑verified multiple‑choice questions that range from simple retrieval to multi‑step reasoning. Tests on 20 open‑weight LLMs show that closed‑book performance is limited by domain knowledge, while providing the table as context yields high accuracy that still drops with deeper reasoning, evidence scope, and structural complexity.

By Anas Ezzakri, Nicola Piovesan, Mohamed Sana, Antonio De Domenico, Fadhel Ayed, Haozhe Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 17

Querying an astronomical database using large language models: the ALeRCE text-to-SQL system

arXiv:2606. 18108v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We develop a text-to-SQL (structured query language) system based on large language models (LLMs) using in-context learning and apply it to the Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events (ALeRCE) astronomical database.

By P. A. Estevez, J. Espejo-Moreira, S. Sanfeliu-Alvarez, F. Forster, A. M. Munoz Arancibia, G. Cabrera-Vives, F. E. Bauer, A. Bayo, M. Catelan, R. Dastidar, L. Hernandez-Garcia, J. A. Intriago, G. Pignata
arXiv AI
Jul 23

Logic-Guided Data Extraction with Answer Set Programming and Large Language Models

arXiv:2607. 19365v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When Large Language Models (LLMs) are used for semantic data extraction from unstructured text, producing candidate relational facts from natural language, they may remain unreliable for tasks requiring complex combinatorial reasoning and global consistency.

By Mario Alviano, Lorenzo Grillo, Nicola Leone, Fabrizio Lo Scudo