Chain-of-Table: Evolving Tables in the Reasoning Chain for Table Understanding
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| author | Wang, Zilong Zhang, Hao Li, Chun-Liang Eisenschlos, Julian Martin Perot, Vincent Wang, Zifeng Miculicich, Lesly Fujii, Yasuhisa Shang, Jingbo Lee, Chen-Yu Pfister, Tomas |
| author_facet | Wang, Zilong Zhang, Hao Li, Chun-Liang Eisenschlos, Julian Martin Perot, Vincent Wang, Zifeng Miculicich, Lesly Fujii, Yasuhisa Shang, Jingbo Lee, Chen-Yu Pfister, Tomas |
| contents | Table-based reasoning with large language models (LLMs) is a promising direction to tackle many table understanding tasks, such as table-based question answering and fact verification. Compared with generic reasoning, table-based reasoning requires the extraction of underlying semantics from both free-form questions and semi-structured tabular data. Chain-of-Thought and its similar approaches incorporate the reasoning chain in the form of textual context, but it is still an open question how to effectively leverage tabular data in the reasoning chain. We propose the Chain-of-Table framework, where tabular data is explicitly used in the reasoning chain as a proxy for intermediate thoughts. Specifically, we guide LLMs using in-context learning to iteratively generate operations and update the table to represent a tabular reasoning chain. LLMs can therefore dynamically plan the next operation based on the results of the previous ones. This continuous evolution of the table forms a chain, showing the reasoning process for a given tabular problem. The chain carries structured information of the intermediate results, enabling more accurate and reliable predictions. Chain-of-Table achieves new state-of-the-art performance on WikiTQ, FeTaQA, and TabFact benchmarks across multiple LLM choices. |
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| spellingShingle | Chain-of-Table: Evolving Tables in the Reasoning Chain for Table Understanding Wang, Zilong Zhang, Hao Li, Chun-Liang Eisenschlos, Julian Martin Perot, Vincent Wang, Zifeng Miculicich, Lesly Fujii, Yasuhisa Shang, Jingbo Lee, Chen-Yu Pfister, Tomas Computation and Language Table-based reasoning with large language models (LLMs) is a promising direction to tackle many table understanding tasks, such as table-based question answering and fact verification. Compared with generic reasoning, table-based reasoning requires the extraction of underlying semantics from both free-form questions and semi-structured tabular data. Chain-of-Thought and its similar approaches incorporate the reasoning chain in the form of textual context, but it is still an open question how to effectively leverage tabular data in the reasoning chain. We propose the Chain-of-Table framework, where tabular data is explicitly used in the reasoning chain as a proxy for intermediate thoughts. Specifically, we guide LLMs using in-context learning to iteratively generate operations and update the table to represent a tabular reasoning chain. LLMs can therefore dynamically plan the next operation based on the results of the previous ones. This continuous evolution of the table forms a chain, showing the reasoning process for a given tabular problem. The chain carries structured information of the intermediate results, enabling more accurate and reliable predictions. Chain-of-Table achieves new state-of-the-art performance on WikiTQ, FeTaQA, and TabFact benchmarks across multiple LLM choices. |
| title | Chain-of-Table: Evolving Tables in the Reasoning Chain for Table Understanding |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04398 |