Retrieve Only Relevant Tables Whether Few or Many: Adaptive Table Retrieval Method (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for retrieving relevant tables from databases are limited by the number of tables required. |
| Approach: | They propose an adaptive table retrieval method that adjusts the number of tables retrieved according to the requirements of each query. |
| Outcome: | Experiments on Spider, BIRD, and Spider 2.0 show that the proposed method improves performance and retrieval and downstream tasks. |
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