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
Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong capabilities in table reasoning, but their effectiveness degrades as tables grow in size and complexity due to irrelevant context and difficulty localizi...
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
arXiv:2605. 20254v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown promising results on NLP tasks, however, their performance on tabular data still needs research attention, because Table Question-Answering (TQA) requires precise cell retrieval and multi-step structured reasoning.
By Amritansh Maurya, Navjot Singh, Mohammed Javed, Omar Moured
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.
By Pei Guo, Enjie Liu, Yunzhi Tan, Mochi Gao, Jianxin Zhang, Ruichao Zhong, Juntao Li, Bo Hu, Zang Li
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
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:2607. 22633v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Table Question Answering (TableQA) aims to reason over tables to answer user queries.
By Guixin Su, Qiankun Pi, Mayi Xu, Wenli Li, Ming Zhong, Yuanyuan Zhu, Jiawei Jiang, Tieyun Qian
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
The paper introduces MAPLE, a family of decoder‑only language models pretrained with document‑level geographic metadata such as source URL, country, and continent. MAPLE is evaluated on a new benchmark, LocalNewsQA, which tests whether models can switch answers when the locale changes. Experiments show that, with inference‑time metadata fixed, MAPLE outperforms metadata‑free controls in both answer switching and accuracy on locale‑dependent questions, and these gains grow with model size.
By Anjishnu Mukherjee, Ziwei Zhu, Antonios Anastasopoulos
arXiv:2606. 32029v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While large language models (LLMs) perform well on table tasks, they still make data referencing errors (DREs), i.
By Yuqing Yang, Qi Zhu, Zhen Han, Boran Han, Zhengyuan Shen, Shuai Wang, Vassilis N. Ioannidis, Huzefa Rangwala
arXiv:2607. 06482v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current benchmarks for evaluating Large Language Models (LLMs) in data analysis often fail to reflect real-world settings.
By So Hasegawa, Shailaja Keyur Sampat, Lei Liu, Wei-Peng Chen