| Challenge: | Table to text models generate descriptive summaries that repeat information contained within a table in sentences. |
| Approach: | They propose a table-aware table-to-text model that uses vector-quantization to infuse different types of analytical reasoning into the output. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model achieves 2.2%, 2.9% improvement on PARENT metric over state-of-the-art models. |
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