Hybrid Graphs for Table-and-Text based Question Answering using LLMs (2025.naacl-long)
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| 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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