RAPO: Reason-Aware Preference Optimization for Factual Table Question Answering over Structured Data.

@inproceedings{sayapaneni-2026-rapo, author = {Phaniram Sayapaneni and Wei Gao and Congcong Ge and Sunil Goda and Musen Wen and Congcong Ge and Sunil Goda}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{RAPO: Reason-Aware Preference Optimization for Factual Table Question Answering over Structured Data}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {4864--4868}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3808517}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3808517} }