Tree-of-Table: Unleashing the Power of LLMs for Enhanced Large-Scale Table Understanding

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Autores principales: Ji, Deyi, Zhu, Lanyun, Gao, Siqi, Xu, Peng, Lu, Hongtao, Ye, Jieping, Zhao, Feng
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Publicado: 2024
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author Ji, Deyi
Zhu, Lanyun
Gao, Siqi
Xu, Peng
Lu, Hongtao
Ye, Jieping
Zhao, Feng
author_facet Ji, Deyi
Zhu, Lanyun
Gao, Siqi
Xu, Peng
Lu, Hongtao
Ye, Jieping
Zhao, Feng
contents The ubiquity and value of tables as semi-structured data across various domains necessitate advanced methods for understanding their complexity and vast amounts of information. Despite the impressive capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in advancing the natural language understanding frontier, their application to large-scale tabular data presents significant challenges, specifically regarding table size and complex intricate relationships. Existing works have shown promise with small-scale tables but often flounder when tasked with the complex reasoning required by larger, interconnected tables found in real-world scenarios. To address this gap, we introduce "Tree-of-Table", a novel approach designed to enhance LLMs' reasoning capabilities over large and complex tables. Our method employs Table Condensation and Decomposition to distill and reorganize relevant data into a manageable format, followed by the construction of a hierarchical Table-Tree that facilitates tree-structured reasoning. Through a meticulous Table-Tree Execution process, we systematically unravel the tree-structured reasoning chain to derive the solutions. Experiments across diverse datasets, including WikiTQ, TableFact, FeTaQA, and BIRD, demonstrate that Tree-of-Table sets a new benchmark with superior performance, showcasing remarkable efficiency and generalization capabilities in large-scale table reasoning.
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spellingShingle Tree-of-Table: Unleashing the Power of LLMs for Enhanced Large-Scale Table Understanding
Ji, Deyi
Zhu, Lanyun
Gao, Siqi
Xu, Peng
Lu, Hongtao
Ye, Jieping
Zhao, Feng
Computation and Language
The ubiquity and value of tables as semi-structured data across various domains necessitate advanced methods for understanding their complexity and vast amounts of information. Despite the impressive capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in advancing the natural language understanding frontier, their application to large-scale tabular data presents significant challenges, specifically regarding table size and complex intricate relationships. Existing works have shown promise with small-scale tables but often flounder when tasked with the complex reasoning required by larger, interconnected tables found in real-world scenarios. To address this gap, we introduce "Tree-of-Table", a novel approach designed to enhance LLMs' reasoning capabilities over large and complex tables. Our method employs Table Condensation and Decomposition to distill and reorganize relevant data into a manageable format, followed by the construction of a hierarchical Table-Tree that facilitates tree-structured reasoning. Through a meticulous Table-Tree Execution process, we systematically unravel the tree-structured reasoning chain to derive the solutions. Experiments across diverse datasets, including WikiTQ, TableFact, FeTaQA, and BIRD, demonstrate that Tree-of-Table sets a new benchmark with superior performance, showcasing remarkable efficiency and generalization capabilities in large-scale table reasoning.
title Tree-of-Table: Unleashing the Power of LLMs for Enhanced Large-Scale Table Understanding
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.08516