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: 14069
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 4.1905499e-05
Overall Rank: 10,759 | 25.23%
DOI: 10.14778/3749646.3749714

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
108	WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web	2008	VLDB	0.00048345996
365	Annotating and Searching Web Tables Using Entities, Types and Relationships	2010	VLDB	0.00025616694
420	InfoGather: Entity Augmentation and Attribute Discovery By Holistic Matching with Web Tables	2012	SIGMOD	0.00023700634
514	TURL: Table Understanding through Representation Learning	2021	VLDB	0.00021280726
516	Can Foundation Models Wrangle Your Data?	2023	VLDB	0.00021194444
1,866	ReAcTable: Enhancing ReAct for Table Question Answering	2024	VLDB	0.00010265592
2,513	Annotating Columns with Pre-trained Language Models	2022	SIGMOD	8.6155767e-05
2,585	Table-GPT: Table Fine-tuned GPT for Diverse Table Tasks	2024	SIGMOD	8.4909917e-05
2,842	Semantics-aware Dataset Discovery from Data Lakes with Contextualized Column-based Representation Learning	2023	VLDB	8.0366354e-05
2,895	Sato: Contextual Semantic Type Detection in Tables	2020	VLDB	7.9539265e-05
3,003	Chorus: Foundation Models for Unified Data Discovery and Exploration	2024	VLDB	7.7358219e-05
3,520	GitTables: A Large-Scale Corpus of Relational Tables	2023	SIGMOD	7.0136102e-05
4,860	Integrating Data Lake Tables	2023	VLDB	5.867964e-05
5,098	ArcheType: A Novel Framework for Open-Source Column Type Annotation using Large Language Models	2024	VLDB	5.6943033e-05
6,071	Observatory: Characterizing Embeddings of Relational Tables	2024	VLDB	5.2231739e-05
7,045	Magneto: Combining Small and Large Language Models for Schema Matching	2025	VLDB	4.8474104e-05
7,915	Efficient Approximate Algorithms for Empirical Entropy and Mutual Information	2021	SIGMOD	4.6135329e-05
8,852	Watchog: A Light-weight Contrastive Learning based Framework for Column Annotation	2023	SIGMOD	4.4313992e-05

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