Summary of Spreadsheetllm: Encoding Spreadsheets For Large Language Models, by Yuzhang Tian et al.
SpreadsheetLLM: Encoding Spreadsheets for Large Language Models
by Yuzhang Tian, Jianbo Zhao, Haoyu Dong, Junyu Xiong, Shiyu Xia, Mengyu Zhou, Yun Lin, José Cambronero, Yeye He, Shi Han, Dongmei Zhang
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research paper introduces SpreadsheetLLM, an innovative approach to unleashing large language models (LLMs) for understanding and reasoning on spreadsheets. The vanilla serialization method for encoding spreadsheets was found to be limited by token constraints, making it impractical for most applications. To address this challenge, the authors developed SheetCompressor, a novel encoding framework that compresses spreadsheets effectively for LLMs. The framework consists of three modules: structural-anchor-based compression, inverse index translation, and data-format-aware aggregation. The results show significant improvements in the spreadsheet table detection task, with an increase of 25.6% in GPT4’s in-context learning setting compared to the vanilla approach. Furthermore, fine-tuned LLM with SheetCompressor achieves a state-of-the-art F1 score of 78.9%, outperforming existing models by 12.3%. The authors also propose Chain of Spreadsheet for downstream tasks of spreadsheet understanding and validate it in a new and demanding spreadsheet QA task. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Spreadsheets are special types of computer files that can be tricky for big computers like language models to understand. This paper helps solve this problem by creating a better way for language models to work with spreadsheets. The idea is to make the spreadsheet information more compact, so it’s easier for the language model to process. They call this new approach SheetCompressor and show that it works really well. It can even help machines answer questions about the spreadsheets better than before! |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » F1 score » Language model » Token » Translation
