StrucTab: A Structured Optimization Framework for Table Parsing

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.29905v1
• Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:41:39 GMT
• Title: StrucTab: A Structured Optimization Framework for Table Parsing
• Abstract summary: StrucTab is a table parsing model learned through intermediate structural supervision and reward decomposition.<n>At the modeling level, by decomposing the parsing process into human-inspired subtasks, StrucTab progressively unifies them through a sequential reasoning strategy.<n>At the optimization level, we introduce Uni-TabRL, a unified RL framework that leverages decomposed rewards to provide stable and informative optimization signals.
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• Abstract: Table parsing aims to convert table images into structured, machine-readable representations, a task requiring the joint perception of complex spatial layouts and textual content. While recent vision-language models (VLMs) enable end-to-end parsing, they typically rely on direct supervision of the final output, thereby bypassing the explicit intermediate reasoning that is crucial for understanding complex table structures. Furthermore, attempts to optimize these models using reinforcement learning (RL) are often hindered by unstable or ambiguous reward designs, limiting potential performance gains. To address these limitations, we propose StrucTab, a table parsing model learned through intermediate structural supervision and reward decomposition. At the modeling level, by decomposing the parsing process into human-inspired subtasks, such as row-column counting and merged-cell analysis, StrucTab progressively unifies them through a sequential reasoning strategy. At the optimization level, we introduce Uni-TabRL, a unified RL framework that leverages decomposed rewards (validity, structure, and content) to provide stable and informative optimization signals. Finally, at the evaluation level, we present TableVerse-5K, a large-scale, challenging benchmark encompassing diverse, real-world table scenarios. Extensive experiments demonstrate the state-of-the-art performance of StrucTab across all evaluated public benchmarks and significant improvements on TableVerse-5K, validating the effectiveness of explicit structural modeling and decomposed reward optimization. Code and benchmark are publicly available at https://github.com/VirtualLUOUCAS/StrucTab.

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