arxivcs.CLcs.AI2026-06-30
When LLMs Read Tables Carelessly: Measuring and Reducing Data Referencing Errors
Yuqing Yang, Qi Zhu, Zhen Han, Boran Han, Zhengyuan Shen, Shuai Wang, et al.
While large language models (LLMs) perform well on table tasks, they still make data referencing errors (DREs), i.e., incorrectly citing or omitting table values, despite understanding the table structure. Beyond final-answer accuracy, DREs directly compromise the correctness and…