Cents: A Flexible and Cost-Effective Framework for LLM-Based Table Understanding

Summary: Unified, cost-aware framework for LLM-based table understanding that compresses tabular inputs to cut input token cost while boosting accuracy. Demonstrated across multiple tasks (e.g., column-type annotation), outperforms LLM baselines at equal or lower cost. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 14068
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 4.1945683e-05
Overall Rank: 10,753 | 25.20%
DOI: 10.14778/3749646.3749714

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107	WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web	2008	VLDB	0.00048377684
364	Annotating and Searching Web Tables Using Entities, Types and Relationships	2010	VLDB	0.00025637562
420	InfoGather: Entity Augmentation and Attribute Discovery By Holistic Matching with Web Tables	2012	SIGMOD	0.00023719065
513	TURL: Table Understanding through Representation Learning	2021	VLDB	0.00021288342
517	Can Foundation Models Wrangle Your Data?	2023	VLDB	0.00021169035
1,872	ReAcTable: Enhancing ReAct for Table Question Answering	2024	VLDB	0.00010259702
2,517	Annotating Columns with Pre-trained Language Models	2022	SIGMOD	8.6092139e-05
2,587	Table-GPT: Table Fine-tuned GPT for Diverse Table Tasks	2024	SIGMOD	8.4924618e-05
2,836	Semantics-aware Dataset Discovery from Data Lakes with Contextualized Column-based Representation Learning	2023	VLDB	8.0443826e-05
2,888	Sato: Contextual Semantic Type Detection in Tables	2020	VLDB	7.9594996e-05
3,015	Chorus: Foundation Models for Unified Data Discovery and Exploration	2024	VLDB	7.7092391e-05
3,520	GitTables: A Large-Scale Corpus of Relational Tables	2023	SIGMOD	7.0131061e-05
4,859	Integrating Data Lake Tables	2023	VLDB	5.8732433e-05
5,099	ArcheType: A Novel Framework for Open-Source Column Type Annotation using Large Language Models	2024	VLDB	5.6997784e-05
6,092	Observatory: Characterizing Embeddings of Relational Tables	2024	VLDB	5.2138566e-05
7,048	Magneto: Combining Small and Large Language Models for Schema Matching	2025	VLDB	4.8520651e-05
7,914	Efficient Approximate Algorithms for Empirical Entropy and Mutual Information	2021	SIGMOD	4.6179608e-05
8,852	Watchog: A Light-weight Contrastive Learning based Framework for Column Annotation	2023	SIGMOD	4.4356508e-05

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