markdown-table-serialization-9d68f9db·1 events·first seen Aliases: Markdown table serialization
This paper proposes Semantic Triplet Restoration (STR), a table serialization protocol that rewrites each cell as an atomic fact <item path, feature path, value> to make header-cell alignments explicit for LLMs, replacing HTML/Markdown representations. The authors also introduce TripletQL, a query-aware router that selects relevant triplets per question. Evaluated on four Chinese and English table-QA benchmarks, STR matches or outperforms HTML-based baselines while reducing input token count. Benefits are most pronounced for smaller models and longer tables, suggesting value under constrained inference budgets.