google-research/tapas

• highreadme#1

  Clarify TAPAS's role as a specialized model in the README intro

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  # TAble PArSing (TAPAS)
  
  Code and checkpoints for training the transformer-based Table QA models introduced in the paper [TAPAS: Weakly Supervised Table Parsing via Pre-training](#how-to-cite-tapas).

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  # TAble PArSing (TAPAS)
  
  TAPAS provides end-to-end neural models for answering natural language questions directly from structured tables. This repository contains the code and checkpoints for training these transformer-based Table QA models, offering a specialized solution for table understanding rather than a general-purpose system-building framework.

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• mediumhomepage#2

  Add a homepage URL to the repository metadata

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  [Add a relevant project or research page URL, e.g., a Google AI blog post or dedicated project page]

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• lowreadme#3

  Add a concise 'Key Features' section above the 'News'

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  #### 2021/09/15
  * Released code for sparse table attention from MATE: Multi-view Attention for Table Transformer Efficiency. For more info check here.

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  ## Key Features
  
  *   **End-to-end Neural Table QA:** Directly processes tabular data for question answering without intermediate SQL generation.
  *   **Transformer-based Models:** Leverages powerful transformer architectures for robust table-text understanding.
  *   **Weakly Supervised Pre-training:** Benefits from pre-training on large datasets for improved performance.
  *   **Integration with Hugging Face Transformers:** Easily accessible and deployable via the Hugging Face ecosystem.
  
  ## News

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Category GEO backends resolved for this scan: google/gemini-2.5-flash, deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash

• CATEGORY QUERY

  How to build a system for answering natural language questions from tabular data?

  you: #5
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  1. LangChain
  2. OpenAI GPT-4/GPT-3.5 Turbo
  3. LlamaIndex
  4. Hugging Face Transformers
  5. TAPAS ← you
  6. RAG
  7. SQLFlow
  8. Microsoft Text-to-SQL
  9. Azure Cognitive Services
  10. LUIS (Language Understanding)
  11. PyTorch
  12. TensorFlow
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  What are effective neural models for extracting answers from tables using text queries?

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  2. TUTA
  3. GraPPa
  4. BERT
  5. RoBERTa
  6. SQLNet
  7. SQLova
  8. Logic-driven Table QA
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