arXiv:2607.28680cs.CLcs.LG2026-07

通过迭代纠错优化,提升表格实体链接的准确率与推理质量。

TELLER: Dual-Path Iterative Preference Optimization for Table Entity Linking

论文配图:TELLER: Dual-Path Iterative Preference Optimization for Table Entity Linking
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  • 双路径设计:直接答案路径与推理路径并行优化
  • 迭代更新偏好数据,解决模型误差累积问题
  • 在多个数据集上显著提升准确率,尤其强化复杂推理能力

表格中的实体链接旨在将短而模糊的单元格提及匹配到知识库中的对应实体。现有方法通常依赖预处理管道,保留简洁或丰富的表格上下文作为证据,并将实体链接建模为指令微调模型的语言生成任务;近期系统进一步引入显式推理以消除歧义。然而,其训练监督常为静态:固定偏好数据无法适应模型演进中的残余误差,且推理长度变化会干扰序列级偏好学习。为此,我们提出 TELLER:基于错误学习与推理的表格实体链接。首先检索并排序 Wikidata 候选实体,精简提示中的表格证据。直接答案路径采用迭代直接偏好优化,并用更新模型的残差误差刷新偏好数据;推理路径使用过滤压缩后的思维链理由进行监督微调,随后执行迭代长度归一化的正则化偏好优化。在 TableInstruct 实体链接子集上,直接答案路径准确率从 94.35% 提升至 94.50%;在 MammoTab V2 评估集上,从 87.59% 提升至 88.20%。推理路径在 TableInstruct 上准确率从 92.90% 提升至 92.95%,在 MammoTab V2 上从 79.09% 提升至 81.85%,同时保持高比例完整推理生成。结果表明,迭代偏好学习对简洁预测与显式推理均有增益。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Entity linking in tables matches short and ambiguous cell mentions to their corresponding knowledge-base entities. Existing approaches typically rely on data preprocessing pipelines that retain either compact or extensive table content as contextual evidence, and then formulate entity linking as a language generation task for instruction-tuned models; recent systems further incorporate explicit reasoning to disambiguate challenging mentions. However, their training supervision is usually static: fixed preference data cannot adapt to the residual errors of an evolving model, while variations in reasoning length can bias sequence-level preference learning. To address these limitations, we present TELLER: Table Entity Linking through Learning from Errors and Reasoning. We first retrieve and rank Wikidata candidates and retain reduced table evidence in the prompt. The direct-answer path applies iterative direct preference optimization and refreshes its preference data with residual errors from the updated model. The reasoning path uses filtered and compressed chain-of-thought rationales for supervised fine-tuning, followed by our iterative length-normalized regularized preference optimization. On the TableInstruct entity-linking subset, the direct-answer path improves accuracy from 94.35\% to 94.50\%; on the MammoTab V2 evaluation set, it improves accuracy from 87.59\% to 88.20\%. The reasoning path improves accuracy from 92.90\% to 92.95\% on TableInstruct and from 79.09\% to 81.85\% on MammoTab V2, while maintaining high rates of complete reasoning generation. These results show that iterative preference learning benefits both concise entity prediction and explicit reasoning.

实体链接表格理解偏好优化

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