SEC-FinTables: Evaluating Large Language Models for Detecting Logical Inconsistencies on Tabular Data (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Large language models are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains where logical inconsistencies are unrecognized. |
| Approach: | They propose a benchmarking system that decomposes inconsistency detection into granular subtasks and a protocol that decompiles it into subtask. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model decomposes inconsistencies into subtasks and identifies them in 103,395 real-world and error-injected table instances. |
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