RESEARCHarXiv CS.CL·5/4/2026
RSAT: Structured Attribution Makes Small Language Models Faithful Table Reasoners
RSAT is a new method that trains small language models (SLMs) to produce faithful, step-by-step reasoning for table questions, grounded with cell-level citations. It significantly improves faithfulness (3.7x) and achieves near-perfect citation validity by integrating attribution into the reasoning process.
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