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Summary of Tabular Embedding Model (tem): Finetuning Embedding Models For Tabular Rag Applications, by Sujit Khanna and Shishir Subedi


Tabular Embedding Model (TEM): Finetuning Embedding Models For Tabular RAG Applications

by Sujit Khanna, Shishir Subedi

First submitted to arxiv on: 28 Apr 2024

Categories

  • Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
  • Secondary: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Information Retrieval (cs.IR)

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Medium GrooveSquid.com (original content) Medium Difficulty Summary
This paper addresses the limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs) in processing tabular data, a crucial task in many applications. Existing state-of-the-art (SOTA) models struggle to analyze large datasets due to their textual training datasets and lack of specialization for tabular data. The authors introduce Tabular Embedding Model (TEM), a novel approach to fine-tune embedding models specifically designed for Retrieval-Augmentation Generation (RAG) tasks involving tabular data. TEM outperforms current SOTA models in this domain while using a smaller and more efficient model structure. This breakthrough has significant implications for various applications, including code generation and general-purpose reasoning.
Low GrooveSquid.com (original content) Low Difficulty Summary
This paper solves a big problem with computers that can understand language (Large Language Models). These computers are great at math and writing code, but they struggle when dealing with lots of numbers or tables. The authors created a new way to make these computers better at understanding table data. They call it Tabular Embedding Model (TEM) and it’s really good at analyzing tables! It even does better than the best current models, but uses less computer power. This is important because many applications use big datasets with numbers or tables.

Keywords

» Artificial intelligence  » Embedding  » Rag