Challenge: Current methods for QA rely on fine-tuning and high-quality data, which is difficult to obtain.
Approach: They propose a Hybrid Graph-based approach for Table-Text QA that leverages Large Language Models without fine-tuning.
Outcome: The proposed approach improves Exact Match scores by 10% on Hybrid-QA and 5.4% on OTT-QA.

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