Multimodal Table Understanding

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08100v1
• Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 11:27:03 GMT
• Title: Multimodal Table Understanding
• Authors: Mingyu Zheng, Xinwei Feng, Qingyi Si, Qiaoqiao She, Zheng Lin, Wenbin Jiang, Weiping Wang,
• Abstract summary: How to directly understand tables using intuitive visual information is a crucial and urgent challenge for developing more practical applications. We propose a new problem, multimodal table understanding, where the model needs to generate correct responses to various table-related requests. We develop Table-LLaVA, a generalist multimodal large language model (MLLM), which significantly outperforms recent open-source MLLM baselines on 23 benchmarks.
• Score: 26.652797853893233
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Although great progress has been made by previous table understanding methods including recent approaches based on large language models (LLMs), they rely heavily on the premise that given tables must be converted into a certain text sequence (such as Markdown or HTML) to serve as model input. However, it is difficult to access such high-quality textual table representations in some real-world scenarios, and table images are much more accessible. Therefore, how to directly understand tables using intuitive visual information is a crucial and urgent challenge for developing more practical applications. In this paper, we propose a new problem, multimodal table understanding, where the model needs to generate correct responses to various table-related requests based on the given table image. To facilitate both the model training and evaluation, we construct a large-scale dataset named MMTab, which covers a wide spectrum of table images, instructions and tasks. On this basis, we develop Table-LLaVA, a generalist tabular multimodal large language model (MLLM), which significantly outperforms recent open-source MLLM baselines on 23 benchmarks under held-in and held-out settings. The code and data is available at this https://github.com/SpursGoZmy/Table-LLaVA

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