FormaT5: Abstention and Examples for Conditional Table Formatting with Natural Language
Summary: Transformer-based FormaT5 synthesizes spreadsheet conditional-formatting (CF) rules from a table plus often under-specified natural-language descriptions by learning an abstention objective to emit placeholders for risky arguments. Placeholders are filled via a secondary model or programming-by-example; evaluated on a new 1,053-task real-world benchmark and outperforms 8 neural baselines, highlighting the benefit of domain-specific abstention+PBE pipelines. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Mukul Singh
- 2. José Cambronero
- 3. Sumit Gulwani
- 4. Vu Le
- 5. Carina Negreanu
- 6. Elnaz Nouri
- 7. Mohammad Raza
- 8. Gust Verbruggen
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 10,498 | PLM4NDV: Minimizing Data Access for Number of Distinct Values Estimation with Pre-trained Language Models | 2025 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 10,713 | CoLA: Model Collaboration for Log-based Anomaly Detection | 2025 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
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| 517 | Can Foundation Models Wrangle Your Data? | 2023 | VLDB | 0.00021169035 |
| 535 | ATHENA: An Ontology-Driven System for Natural Language Querying over Relational Data Stores | 2016 | VLDB | 0.00020727678 |
| 567 | NaLIR: An Interactive Natural Language Interface for Querying Relational Databases | 2014 | SIGMOD | 0.00019966681 |
| 1,459 | Query From Examples: An Iterative, Data-Driven Approach to Query Construction | 2015 | VLDB | 0.00011889802 |
| 11,245 | Cornet: Learning Table Formatting Rules By Example | 2023 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
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