arXiv AI By Simone Varriale, Tamara Cucumides, Floris Geerts, Paolo Papotti

Latent Bridges for Multi-Table Question Answering

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arXiv:2606. 28916v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce GRAB, a constructor-encoder-bridge pipeline for table question answering.

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