# TableReasoner: Advancing Table Reasoning Framework with Large Language Models

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08046 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2507.08046/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Placed in Knowledge- and tool-augmented reasoning, one of 17 directions in LLM reasoning.
- Builds on 13 of its 32 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 10 Jul 2025.

## Placed in

- LLM reasoning / [Knowledge- and tool-augmented reasoning](https://mlsanity.com/lr/knowledge-and-tool-augmented-reasoning/)

## Builds on (most cited first, 13 of 13)

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- [ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.03629/) (2022)
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- [TableGPT: Towards Unifying Tables, Nature Language and Commands into One GPT](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.08674/) (2023)
- [StructLM: Towards Building Generalist Models for Structured Knowledge Grounding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.16671/) (2024)
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## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [MR-UIE: Multi-Perspective Reasoning with Reinforcement Learning for Universal Information Extraction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.09082/) (2025)
- [SciTaRC: A Plan-Annotated Scientific Tabular QA Benchmark for Language Reasoning and Complex Computation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.08910/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The paper presents our system developed for table question answering (TQA). TQA tasks face challenges due to the characteristics of real-world tabular data, such as large size, incomplete column semantics, and entity ambiguity. To address these issues, we propose a large language model (LLM)-powered and programming-based table reasoning framework, named TableReasoner. It models a table using the schema that combines structural and semantic representations, enabling holistic understanding and efficient processing of large tables. We design a multi-step schema linking plan to derive a focused table schema that retains only query-relevant information, eliminating ambiguity and alleviating hallucinations. This focused table schema provides precise and sufficient table details for query refinement and programming. Furthermore, we integrate the reasoning workflow into an iterative thinking architecture, allowing incremental cycles of thinking, reasoning and reflection. Our system achieves first place in both subtasks of SemEval-2025 Task 8.