Table Understanding papers, 2023–2026
Table parsing
Scope: NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR, 2023–2026. 21 papers are tagged with this topic.
Key findings
- Table Understanding went from 2 papers in 2023 to 6 in 2026, roughly 3.0x in three years.
- ICLR publishes the most Table Understanding work: 8 papers from 2023 to 2026, 38% of the four-venue total.
- Among the 5 topics under Document and Layout, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, PDF Understanding, is up 6.5x versus 3.0x here.
Papers per venue
Counts by year and venue
| Year | NeurIPS | ICLR | ICML | CVPR | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 2025 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 2026 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
Representative papers
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- ICML 2026Orthogonal Hierarchical Decomposition for Structure-Aware Table Understanding with Large Language Models
- ICLR 2026TableDART: Dynamic Adaptive Multi-Modal Routing for Table Understanding
- NeurIPS 2025NeedleInATable: Exploring Long-Context Capability of Large Language Models towards Long-Structured Tables
- ICLR 2025Bridging the Semantic Gap Between Text and Table: A Case Study on NL2SQL
- CVPR 2025LATTE-MV: Learning to Anticipate Table Tennis Hits from Monocular Videos
- NeurIPS 2024TableRAG: Million-Token Table Understanding with Language Models
- ICLR 2024CABINET: Content Relevance-based Noise Reduction for Table Question Answering
- CVPR 2024Efficient 3D Implicit Head Avatar with Mesh-anchored Hash Table Blendshapes
- NeurIPS 2023Lookup Table meets Local Laplacian Filter: Pyramid Reconstruction Network for Tone Mapping
- ICML 2023Pix2Struct: Screenshot Parsing as Pretraining for Visual Language Understanding
- ICLR 2026TableMaster: A Recipe to Advance Table Understanding with Language Models
- NeurIPS 2025Causality Meets the Table: Debiasing LLMs for Faithful TableQA via Front-Door Intervention
- CVPR 2025SynTab-LLaVA: Enhancing Multimodal Table Understanding with Decoupled Synthesis
- NeurIPS 2024TabPedia: Towards Comprehensive Visual Table Understanding with Concept Synergy
- ICLR 2024Chain-of-Table: Evolving Tables in the Reasoning Chain for Table Understanding
- CVPR 2024OmniParser: A Unified Framework for Text Spotting Key Information Extraction and Table Recognition
- ICLR 2026Learning from the Electronic Structure of Molecules across the Periodic Table
- NeurIPS 2025Pan-LUT: Efficient Pan-sharpening via Learnable Look-Up Tables
- CVPR 2025LotusFilter: Fast Diverse Nearest Neighbor Search via a Learned Cutoff Table
- ICLR 2026TABLET: A Large-Scale Dataset for Robust Visual Table Understanding
All Table Understanding papers
21 papers, page 1 of 1
- ICLR 2026Enhancing Multi-Image Understanding through Delimiter Token Scaling
- ICLR 2026Learning from the Electronic Structure of Molecules across the Periodic Table
- ICLR 2026TableDART: Dynamic Adaptive Multi-Modal Routing for Table Understanding
- ICLR 2026TableMaster: A Recipe to Advance Table Understanding with Language Models
- ICLR 2026TABLET: A Large-Scale Dataset for Robust Visual Table Understanding
- ICML 2026Orthogonal Hierarchical Decomposition for Structure-Aware Table Understanding with Large Language Models
- CVPR 2025LATTE-MV: Learning to Anticipate Table Tennis Hits from Monocular Videos
- CVPR 2025LotusFilter: Fast Diverse Nearest Neighbor Search via a Learned Cutoff Table
- CVPR 2025SynTab-LLaVA: Enhancing Multimodal Table Understanding with Decoupled Synthesis
- ICLR 2025Bridging the Semantic Gap Between Text and Table: A Case Study on NL2SQL
- NeurIPS 2025Causality Meets the Table: Debiasing LLMs for Faithful TableQA via Front-Door Intervention
- NeurIPS 2025NeedleInATable: Exploring Long-Context Capability of Large Language Models towards Long-Structured Tables
- NeurIPS 2025Pan-LUT: Efficient Pan-sharpening via Learnable Look-Up Tables
- CVPR 2024Efficient 3D Implicit Head Avatar with Mesh-anchored Hash Table Blendshapes
- CVPR 2024OmniParser: A Unified Framework for Text Spotting Key Information Extraction and Table Recognition
- ICLR 2024CABINET: Content Relevance-based Noise Reduction for Table Question Answering
- ICLR 2024Chain-of-Table: Evolving Tables in the Reasoning Chain for Table Understanding
- NeurIPS 2024TableRAG: Million-Token Table Understanding with Language Models
- NeurIPS 2024TabPedia: Towards Comprehensive Visual Table Understanding with Concept Synergy
- ICML 2023Pix2Struct: Screenshot Parsing as Pretraining for Visual Language Understanding
- NeurIPS 2023Lookup Table meets Local Laplacian Filter: Pyramid Reconstruction Network for Tone Mapping
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FAQ
- How many Table Understanding papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?
- 21 in total: 2 in 2023, 6 in 2024, 7 in 2025, 6 in 2026.
- How many Table Understanding papers are at NeurIPS 2025?
- NeurIPS 2025 has 3 Table Understanding papers, versus 2 the year before.
- How many Table Understanding papers are at ICLR 2026?
- ICLR 2026 has 5 Table Understanding papers, versus 1 the year before.
- How many Table Understanding papers are at ICML 2026?
- ICML 2026 has 1 Table Understanding papers.
- How many Table Understanding papers are at CVPR 2025?
- CVPR 2025 has 3 Table Understanding papers, versus 2 the year before.
- Which conference publishes the most Table Understanding papers?
- ICLR, with 8 papers from 2023 to 2026.