arXiv:2509.01312cs.CL2025-09被引 8

用编程思维提升表格问答精度,解决大表推理难题

TableZoomer: A Collaborative Agent Framework for Large-scale Table Question Answering

  • 将表格转为结构化模式,降低理解复杂度
  • 动态生成子表结构,定位目标数据更准更快
  • 代码化推理避免数值幻觉,适合复杂查询场景

尽管大语言模型通过提示工程在表格问答任务中展现潜力,但在工业应用中仍面临结构异构、目标数据定位困难和复杂推理瓶颈等问题。为此,本文提出 TableZoomer——一种基于编程的 LLM 驱动代理框架。其核心创新包括:(1) 用结构化表格模式替代全文本描述,缩小语义差距并降低计算开销;(2) 提出查询感知的表格缩放机制,通过列选择与实体链接动态生成子表模式,显著提升目标定位效率;(3) 引入程序思维(PoT)策略,将查询转化为可执行代码,有效缓解数值幻觉问题。同时,结合 ReAct 推理范式实现迭代推理。大量实验表明,该框架在保持易用性的同时,显著提升跨规模表格的性能与可扩展性。使用 Qwen3-8B-Instruct 模型时,在 DataBench 大规模数据集上相较传统 PoT 方法准确率提升 19.34%,在 TableBench 小规模事实核查任务中提升 25%。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

While large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in the table question answering (TQA) task through prompt engineering, they face challenges in industrial applications, including structural heterogeneity, difficulties in target data localization, and bottlenecks in complex reasoning. To address these limitations, this paper presents TableZoomer, a novel LLM-powered, programming-based agent framework. It introduces three key innovations: (1) replacing the original fully verbalized table with structured table schema to bridge the semantic gap and reduce computational complexity; (2) a query-aware table zooming mechanism that dynamically generates sub-table schema through column selection and entity linking, significantly improving target localization efficiency; and (3) a Program-of-Thoughts (PoT) strategy that transforms queries into executable code to mitigate numerical hallucination. Additionally, we integrate the reasoning workflow with the ReAct paradigm to enable iterative reasoning. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our framework maintains the usability advantages while substantially enhancing performance and scalability across tables of varying scales. When implemented with the Qwen3-8B-Instruct LLM, TableZoomer achieves accuracy improvements of 19.34% and 25% over conventional PoT methods on the large-scale DataBench dataset and the small-scale Fact Checking task of TableBench dataset, respectively.

表格问答编程思维大模型推理优化

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