AixelAsk: A Stepwise-Guided Retrieval and Reasoning Framework for Large Table QA

Summary: Introduces AixelAsk, an LLM-based framework for large-table QA that constructs a DAG decomposition of execution nodes to guide stepwise LLM reasoning. Retrieves key rows/columns into sub-tables to cut tokens by ~86% while improving EM by 4–8%. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 11 2026)

Paper ID: 7428
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2026
Pagerank: 4.1905499e-05
Overall Rank: 10,117 | 29.69%
DOI: 10.1145/3769831

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998	CodeS: Towards Building Open-source Language Models for Text-to-SQL	2024	SIGMOD	0.00014726344
1,839	DocETL: Agentic Query Rewriting and Evaluation for Complex Document Processing	2025	VLDB	0.00010351287
1,866	ReAcTable: Enhancing ReAct for Table Question Answering	2024	VLDB	0.00010265592
2,013	Palimpzest: Optimizing AI-Powered Analytics with Declarative Query Processing	2025	CIDR	9.7986166e-05
2,645	Camel: Managing Data for Efficient Stream Learning	2022	SIGMOD	8.3768838e-05
2,948	Few-shot Text-to-SQL Translation using Structure and Content Prompt Learning	2023	SIGMOD	7.8301799e-05
3,189	Text2SQL is Not Enough: Unifying AI and Databases with TAG	2025	CIDR	7.4140094e-05
5,429	Logical and Physical Optimizations for SQL Query Execution over Large Language Models	2025	SIGMOD	5.511638e-05
7,110	Wide Table Layout Optimization based on Column Ordering and Duplication	2017	SIGMOD	4.8228761e-05
7,423	Table Extraction and Understanding for Scientific and Enterprise Applications	2020	VLDB	4.729385e-05
9,161	Automatically Generating Interesting Facts from Wikipedia Tables	2019	SIGMOD	4.380727e-05
11,189	Regularized Pairwise Relationship based Analytics for Structured Data	2023	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05

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