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InterTab addresses a critical limitation in current multimodal large language models by enforcing step-by-step reasoning that explicitly aligns with table structures rather than treating images as static inputs. This approach significantly improves accuracy on complex tabular data tasks by dynamically cropping and analyzing specific rows, columns, and cells during the chain-of-thought process. The release of the InterTab-22K dataset provides a valuable resource for training models capable of precise structural reasoning in multi-modal environments.
InterTab: Interleaved Visual-Structure Alignment for Multi-Modal Table Reasoning
arXiv:2609.32660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Table images preserve structural information that are often lost in text serialization, and reasoning over them requires locating relevant rows, columns, and cells step by step. Current multimodal large language models (MLLMs) encode the whole image once before reasoning, so they cannot pick up row-, column-, and cell-level evidence as the question unfolds. Encoder-side table structure and generic interleaved visual chain-of-thought still do not bind each reasoning step to that structure. We propose \textbf{InterTab}, an \textbf{Inter}leaved structure-aware framework for CoT reasoning over \textbf{Tab}le images, interleaves chain-of-thought with tool calls that crop structure-aligned table regions. First, we build InterTab-22K, includes reasoning trajectories in which each step is tied to both a structural location and a bounding box. InterTab is trained in two stages: supervised structure-aware alignment (SSA) on InterTab-22K teaches the model to interleave reasoning with structure-aligned crops, and active localization optimization (ALO) further optimizes answer correctness, localization IoU, and output format, while penalizing missing or excessive tool calls. Experiments on nine table benchmarks show that InterTab improves the average accuracy of its backbone from 68.28% to 73.17% and achieves the best average performance among all compared methods. Code and data will be released soon.
Abstract:Table images preserve structural information that are often lost in text serialization, and reasoning over them requires locating relevant rows, columns, and cells step by step. Current multimodal large language models (MLLMs) encode the whole image once before reasoning, so they cannot pick up row-, column-, and cell-level evidence as the question unfolds. Encoder-side table structure and generic interleaved visual chain-of-thought still do not bind each reasoning step to that structure. We propose \textbf{InterTab}, an \textbf{Inter}leaved structure-aware framework for CoT reasoning over \textbf{Tab}le images, interleaves chain-of-thought with tool calls that crop structure-aligned table regions. First, we build InterTab-22K, includes reasoning trajectories in which each step is tied to both a structural location and a bounding box. InterTab is trained in two stages: supervised structure-aware alignment (SSA) on InterTab-22K teaches the model to interleave reasoning with structure-aligned crops, and active localization optimization (ALO) further optimizes answer correctness, localization IoU, and output format, while penalizing missing or excessive tool calls. Experiments on nine table benchmarks show that InterTab improves the average accuracy of its backbone from 68.28% to 73.17% and achieves the best average performance among all compared methods. Code and data will be released soon.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
arXiv:2609.32660 [cs.CV]
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