Cents: A Flexible and Cost-Effective Framework for LLM-Based Table Understanding
Summary: Cents unifies LLM-based table-understanding tasks in a flexible framework, rather than task-specific systems. Its tabular-input compression reduces token cost while improving accuracy, outperforming prior LLM baselines across tasks at equal or lower cost. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Guorui Xiao (University of Washington)
- 2. Dong He (University of Washington)
- 3. Jin Wang (Arizona State University)
- 4. Magdalena Balazinska (University of Washington)
BibTeX Citation
@article{xiao_vldb25,
title = {{Cents: A Flexible and Cost-Effective Framework for LLM-Based Table Understanding}},
author = {Xiao, Guorui and He, Dong and Wang, Jin and Balazinska, Magdalena},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '25},
volume = {18},
number = {11},
pages = {4574--4587},
doi = {10.14778/3749646.3749714},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3749646.3749714},
year = {2025}
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| 10,510 | Shape-Agnostic Table Overlap Discovery: A Maximum Common Subhypergraph Approach | 2026 | SIGMOD | 4.9769913e-05 |
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