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Mingyu Zheng

9 accepted papers

2026

How Far Can LLM Agents Reason with Tables? Benchmarking Multi-Turn Agentic Table Question Answering in the Wild

ICML 2026poster

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have substantially expanded the scope of Table Question Answering (TableQA). However, existing benchmarks primarily treat TableQA as a passive, single-turn natural language understanding task, lacking the capacity to evaluate autonomous reasoning and t…

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2025

NeedleInATable: Exploring Long-Context Capability of Large Language Models towards Long-Structured Tables

NeurIPS 2025poster

Processing structured tabular data, particularly large and lengthy tables, constitutes a fundamental yet challenging task for large language models (LLMs). However, existing long-context benchmarks like Needle-in-a-Haystack primarily focus on unstructured text, neglecting the challenge of diverse st…

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2025

TableDreamer: Progressive and Weakness-guided Data Synthesis from Scratch for Table Instruction Tuning

ACL 2025finding

Despite the commendable progress of recent LLM-based data synthesis methods, they face two limitations in generating table instruction tuning data. First, they can not thoroughly explore the vast input space of table understanding tasks, leading to limited data diversity. Second, they ignore the wea…

2025

Weights-Rotated Preference Optimization for Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

Despite the efficacy of Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) in aligning Large Language Models (LLMs), reward hacking remains a pivotal challenge. This issue emerges when LLMs excessively reduce the probability of rejected completions to achieve high rewards, without genuinely meeting their intended

2024

Multimodal Table Understanding

ACL 2024long

Although great progress has been made by previous table understanding methods including recent approaches based on large language models (LLMs), they rely heavily on the premise that given tables must be converted into a certain text sequence (such as Markdown or HTML) to serve as model input. Howev…

2023

Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Tabular Language Models

EMNLP 2023long findings

Tabular mathematical reasoning task requires models to perform multi-step operations including information look-up and numerical calculation, based on heterogeneous data from tables and questions. Existing solutions tend to extend chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning into powerful large language models…

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2023

IM-TQA: A Chinese Table Question Answering Dataset with Implicit and Multi-type Table Structures

ACL 2023long

Various datasets have been proposed to promote the development of Table Question Answering (TQA) technique. However, the problem setting of existing TQA benchmarks suffers from two limitations. First, they directly provide models with explicit table structures where row headers and column headers of…

2022

Language Prior Is Not the Only Shortcut: A Benchmark for Shortcut Learning in VQA

EMNLP 2022finding

Visual Question Answering (VQA) models are prone to learn the shortcut solution formed by dataset biases rather than the intended solution. To evaluate the VQA models’ reasoning ability beyond shortcut learning, the VQA-CP v2 dataset introduces a distribution shift between the training and test set…