Reasoning-Table: Exploring Reinforcement Learning for Table Reasoning

Fangyu Lei; Jinxiang Meng; Jun Zhao; Kang Liu; Shizhu He; Tinghong Chen; Yiming Huang; Yun Zhang

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Reasoning-Table: Exploring Reinforcement Learning for Table Reasoning

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Pith's one-line read This paper claims that GRPO-based reinforcement learning with simple rule-based outcome rewards outperforms supervised fine-tuning across tableQA, fact verification, table-to-text, and text-to-SQL.

desk verdict A broad RL-over-SFT sweep for table reasoning whose 'first' claim is contradicted by its own citations, but whose empirical core is plausible and worth refereeing seriously. read the letter →

arxiv 2506.01710 v1 pith:VECYECVK submitted 2025-06-02 cs.CL

Fangyu Lei , Jinxiang Meng , Yiming Huang , Tinghong Chen , Yun Zhang , Shizhu He , Jun Zhao , Kang Liu This is my paper

classification cs.CL

keywords tablereasoningreinforcementlearningGRPOrule-basedrewardtext-to-SQLsupervisedfine-tuningquestionansweringlargelanguagemodels

verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal

The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

Reasoning-Table aims to establish that reinforcement learning—specifically GRPO (group-relative policy optimization) with rule-based outcome rewards—can replace supervised fine-tuning as the post-training method for LLMs on table reasoning. The paper argues that SFT's imitation bias limits generalization and robustness, whereas RL lets the model explore reasoning paths and optimize against a direct correctness signal. Across tableQA, table fact verification, table-to-text, and text-to-SQL, RL-zero beats both No-Reason SFT and Reason-SFT, and cold-starting RL from SFT reasoning data improves results further. In unified training over seven tableQA datasets, the 7B model reaches 62.62 average EM, about four points above Claude-3.7-Sonnet, and on the BIRD text-to-SQL benchmark it achieves 68.3% execution accuracy. The paper also claims improved robustness to table perturbations and stronger out-of-domain generalization.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing machinery is the reward function $$R(o_i)=R_{\text{ans}}(o_i)\times(1+\lambda_1 R_{\text{pos}}(o_i))+\lambda_2 R_{\text{fmt}}(o_i),$$ trained with GRPO's group-relative advantage estimate. $R_{\text{ans}}$ is a binary rule-based outcome reward defined per task: exact match for short answers, F1 threshold for long strings, SQL execution match for text-to-SQL, and BLEU threshold for long-form and table-to-text outputs. $R_{\text{pos}}$ rewards cell-level annotations that match ground-truth reference cells, and the multiplicative coupling ensures it only contributes when the answer is correct. This mechanism lets the model learn from its own rollouts rather than from teacher-generated chain-of-thought, with an optional cold start from filtered Reason-SFT data.

What would settle it

Compare the paper's rule-based reward against an oracle semantic-equivalence reward (human- or LLM-judged) on a dataset like WikiTQ where many gold answers have multiple valid phrasings, training identical GRPO runs otherwise. If the oracle-reward model beats the rule-based-reward model by a large margin on human-judged correctness, the rule-based reward is not a faithful correctness proxy and the central claim fails for answer-equivalence tasks.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central claim, stated on the paper's own terms, is that applying GRPO reinforcement learning with simple rule-based outcome rewards to table reasoning produces a model that outperforms SFT on every task family tested. The final reward couples answer correctness with table-specific evidence: $R_{\text{ans}}$ is exact match, F1 threshold, SQL execution match, or BLEU threshold, while a position reward $R_{\text{pos}}$ pays for annotating the actual cells and columns used in reasoning, and a format reward enforces the expected output structure. In the unified tableQA setting, RL-zero raises the average from 49.80 (No-Reason SFT) to 60.12, and Reason-SFT+RL reaches 62.62, surpassing Claude-3.7-Sonnet by about 4.0 points. On text-to-SQL, the method reaches 68.3% execution accuracy on the BIRD dev set with a 7B model. The paper further claims that RL, unlike SFT, remains robust under column and row perturbations and transfers to out-of-domain table datasets.

Load-bearing premise

The rule-based outcome reward—exact match, F1 threshold, SQL execution match, or BLEU threshold—faithfully identifies every acceptable answer; if it mislabels correct answers as wrong or wrong answers as right, the reinforcement signal is corrupted.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

GRPO reinforcement learning with rule-based outcome rewards can replace or complement SFT across tableQA, table fact verification, table-to-text, and text-to-SQL, with larger gains on reasoning-intensive tasks.
Unified multi-task RL lets a 7B model beat a much larger proprietary model (Claude-3.7-Sonnet) on tableQA benchmarks, indicating that task diversity in RL is a scaling axis.
RL-trained models are more robust than SFT models to table serialization changes and column or row order perturbations, and transfer better to out-of-domain tables.
Test-time scaling works: increasing rollouts improves pass@n and majority-voting accuracy on BIRD, with the best 7B configuration reaching 68.3% execution accuracy.
Data selection matters: filtering RL training data to 'challenging' examples yields better performance than using all data or only unstable examples.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The paper leaves implicit that its data-ablation result—training on 'challenging' examples beats using all data—points toward curriculum or difficulty-sampled RL as a natural way to improve sample efficiency.
Because the LLM-as-judge reward improved WikiTQ over rule-based matching, replacing the rule-based reward with an equivalence-aware judge is a plausible extension that could lift performance on free-form and multi-format answers.
The position reward only contributes when the answer is correct; a natural extension would be to convert it into a dense process signal during rollouts for multi-hop table reasoning.
The authors' stated lack of a code-execution module for tableQA implies that tool-augmented RL, executing Python or SQL during rollout, is a likely next step for reducing arithmetic hallucinations.

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Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, and a circularity audit.

Desk Editor's Note

read the letter

Here's the short version: the paper's headline claim—'first application of RL to table reasoning'—is wrong, and the paper itself disproves it by citing Table-R1, SQL-R1, and Reasoning-SQL. What's left after that overclaim is still a solid, useful empirical study. GRPO with rule-based outcome rewards beats SFT across nearly every dataset in a sweep covering tableQA, fact verification, table-to-text, and text-to-SQL, and the unified-training numbers on 7 tableQA datasets are consistently better than the SFT baselines. I believe that trend is real; it matches concurrent work and the direction of the field.

What the paper does well: the benchmark sweep is genuinely broad—15 datasets, 4 task families, single and unified training. The position reward, which rewards annotating the specific cells used in reasoning, is a sensible extension of schema linking to cell-level grounding, and the ablation suggests it helps (0.6–1.1 points on some sets). They also release data and code, report out-of-domain generalization (AIT-QA, TableBench), test-time scaling, and robustness to perturbation. Those are the parts I'd want to read carefully, but they're the right experiments to run.

The soft spots are mostly about the evaluation protocol. Table 1 explicitly states that they use the test set for evaluation without validation. Then the reward configuration (§5.1), the data ablation (§5.2), the N-gram addition, and the model-size analysis are all reported on the same test sets used for the headline numbers. With no error bars and apparently single-seed runs, the reported margins—especially the 4.0-point edge over Claude—are likely inflated by test-set selection. The comparison to proprietary models is also zero-shot, not fine-tuned, so 'surpassing Claude' is not an apples-to-apples result. The rule-based reward being equal to the eval metric is not itself a corruption; it means the RL is optimizing what gets measured. The more serious issue is choosing λ1, λ2, data filters, and extra rewards based on test performance.

Minor: the position evidence is generated by a Qwen2.5 model, same family as the policy, which is a mild circularity. And the paper's own §5.1 shows an LLM-as-judge reward helps WikiTQ but isn't used in the main runs, which suggests the rule-based reward is imperfect on at least one benchmark. Those are minor compared to the test-set problem.

Verdict: this deserves a serious referee. The empirical core is plausible and reproducible; the overclaim about 'first' needs to go, and the evaluation protocol needs a validation split or at least a disclosure of what was selected on test. I'd recommend conditional accept with major revisions, or, for a workshop, a strong poster with the overclaims fixed. I'd bring it to a reading group and would cite it for the breadth of the RL-over-SFT evidence.

Referee Report

4 major / 6 minor

Summary. The paper introduces Reasoning-Table, a GRPO-based reinforcement-learning pipeline for table reasoning. The method trains Qwen2.5-7B on tableQA, fact verification, table-to-text, and text-to-SQL using a rule-based outcome reward, optionally combined with a format reward and a novel position-evidence reward. The main empirical claims are that RL outperforms SFT across all task families, that unified RL training on seven tableQA datasets reaches an average of 62.62 and surpasses Claude-3.7-Sonnet by about 4.0 points, and that the method improves robustness and out-of-domain generalization. The authors release their curated datasets and code.

Significance. If the central claims hold, the paper would be a valuable contribution: it demonstrates that simple rule-based outcome rewards can drive reinforcement learning for structured table reasoning, introduces a position-evidence reward that is intuitively useful for table-grounded reasoning, and provides a broad empirical comparison across four task families with released data and code. The robustness and generalization experiments are also informative. However, the significance is currently bounded by the evaluation protocol: the headline margins and the comparison to proprietary models are selected or reported without a held-out validation set, multiple seeds, or confidence intervals, and the 'first application of RL to table reasoning' claim is explicitly contradicted by the paper's own related-work section. These issues need to be addressed before the quantitative claims can be taken at face value.

major comments (4)

[§4.1, Table 1 footnote] The paper states that 'We only use the train set for training and the test set for evaluation, without using the validation set.' Yet all ablation and configuration decisions—reward weights in Tables 3 and 4, the data-version choice in Figure 3, the N-gram reward added in App. C.2, and the model-size analysis in Figure 4—are evaluated on the same test/dev sets used for the headline numbers. Selecting λ1, λ2, data filtering, and extra rewards from test performance can inflate the reported RL-over-SFT margins (60.12 and 62.62 averages) and the 4.0-point margin over Claude-3.7-Sonnet. The authors should either introduce a held-out validation split and report the final numbers on a truly untouched test set, or report multiple seeds with means and confidence intervals for all key configurations.
[§4.2, Table 1] The comparison to Claude-3.7-Sonnet, GPT-4o, and Qwen2.5-32B-Instruct appears to be zero-shot prompting, since these models are not fine-tuned on the training portions of the benchmarks, whereas Reasoning-Table is trained on those exact datasets. The abstract's claim of 'surpassing larger proprietary models' therefore conflates a fine-tuned model with an inference-only baseline. The paper should explicitly state the inference protocol for all baselines and either add stronger fine-tuned baselines or soften the claim from 'state-of-the-art' to 'state-of-the-art among fine-tuned open 7B models at the time of writing.' There is also an internal inconsistency: §4.2 says 'Reason-SFT+RL surpasses Claude-3.5-Sonnet', while the abstract and Table 1 refer to Claude-3.7-Sonnet.
[§3.4, §5.1, Table 3] The rule-based outcome reward is a central design choice, but the paper itself provides evidence that it is an imperfect proxy: in §5.1, the LLM-as-a-judge reward improves WikiTQ from 80.35 to 81.23, yet the paper does not adopt it in the main training runs. Since the rule-based reward is essentially the same metric used for evaluation, this is not a circularity, but it is a correctness-risk concern. If acceptable answers are systematically mislabeled as incorrect, the RL signal is corrupted and the RL-over-SFT conclusion may partly reflect reward optimization rather than genuine reasoning improvement. The paper should quantify agreement between the rule-based reward and the LLM judge, and justify the decision to keep the rule-based reward in the main experiments despite the WikiTQ result.
[Abstract vs. §6 (Related Work)] The abstract and introduction repeatedly claim that Reasoning-Table is 'the first application of reinforcement learning (RL) to table reasoning.' However, §6 cites Table-R1 (Yang et al., 2025; Wu et al., 2025b) as sharing the same motivation and applies RL to table reasoning. This is an internal contradiction in the novelty claim. The 'first' wording should be relaxed, for example to 'one of the first' or 'the first unified systematic study across four table-reasoning task families,' unless the authors can specify a precise technical sense in which their contribution is strictly prior.

minor comments (6)

[Figure 1 caption] The caption says 'using the GPRO RL method'; the algorithm used throughout the paper is GRPO. Please correct the typo.
[App. A.1, App. A.2 headings] The headings 'Reason-SFT Data Quailty Control' and 'SFT Data Quailty Control' contain a misspelling of 'Quality.'
[Table 12] In Table 12, both FeTaQA and TAT-QA are attributed to (Nan et al., 2022); TAT-QA should be attributed to Zhu et al. (2021), and FeTaQA to Nan et al. (2022).
[§3.2] The notation 'T5 i=1 Pi' for the union of position sets is ambiguous; the 'T' likely represents a union symbol that did not render. Please use a clear union notation such as ⋃_{i=1}^{5} P_i.
[Table 8] The column headers in Table 8 lack spacing ('Origin(No-Reason Data)After Stage1After Stage2'), making the table difficult to read.
[§5.4] The text says 'using the strongest OmniSQL model as the base, Reasoning-Table achieves a performance of 69.0 in the majority voting setting'; Figure 5 appears to show multiple lines, and it would help to mark explicitly which line corresponds to the 69.0 value and whether this is the same as the 68.3 reported in the abstract or a different configuration.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: the paper's claims are empirical and benchmarked against external ground truth.

full rationale

The paper's central claim is that GRPO-based reinforcement learning with rule-based outcome rewards outperforms supervised fine-tuning across tableQA, fact verification, table-to-text, and text-to-SQL. This claim is supported by direct evaluations on external benchmarks with ground-truth answers, such as WikiTQ, BIRD, and Spider. The training reward functions (exact match, F1 threshold, execution match, BLEU threshold) align with the evaluation metrics, but this is standard objective design rather than circularity; the comparison to SFT remains empirical and is not an identity. The position reward uses ground-truth cell sets generated by a larger LLM (Qwen2.5-32B) and is ablated against test sets, so its benefit is measured externally rather than assumed. The paper's citation of its own TableQAKit is for data preprocessing and is not load-bearing for the central results. No equation or derivation reduces to its own inputs, and no fitted parameter is renamed as a prediction. Therefore, the derivation chain is self-contained with respect to circularity.

Assumptions & free parameters 10 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claims rest on the reliability of the reward functions, the correctness of benchmark labels, and the quality of LLM-generated position evidence. The free parameters are mostly reward weights and thresholds chosen on test data, which is a methodological weakness.

free parameters (10)

Reward weight lambda1 (position reward) = 0 or 0.2 depending on setting
Used in R = Rans * (1 + lambda1 Rpos) + lambda2 Rfmt; chosen by ablation on test sets (Table 3).
Reward weight lambda2 (format reward) = 0.2 in main training
Set to 0.2 in main results, but ablation shows minimal impact.
F1 threshold phi = not explicitly stated
Used in rule-based reward for long string answers; threshold is chosen but not reported, affecting reward correctness.
BLEU threshold tau = not explicitly stated (BLEU > 0.3 used for data filtering; tau used in reward)
Threshold for BLEU reward in table-to-text; value not reported in main text.
Redundancy filtering similarity threshold = 0.7
In Reason-SFT quality filtering; discards 90.3% of trajectories.
Sentence length cutoff = 5 words
In redundancy detection; ad hoc.
N-gram reward n = 2 (or 1 if insufficient tokens)
Used in SQL similarity reward to reach 68.3% on BIRD.
KL coefficient beta = 1e-3 for tableQA, 0 for SQL RL
GRPO hyperparameter; varies by task.
Clip higher ratio = 0.28
Follows DAPO.
Rollout count per prompt = 5 for tableQA, 16 for SQL, 16 in initial RL-zero
Training rollout number.

assumptions (5)

domain assumption The GRPO objective with group-relative advantage provides a valid policy gradient update for LLM fine-tuning.
Section 3.3 uses GRPO as the RL algorithm without proof of convergence or stability in this setting.
domain assumption The rule-based outcome reward (EM, F1, EX, BLEU) is a reliable indicator of answer correctness for RL.
Section 3.4; if reward is noisy, RL optimization is misaligned.
domain assumption The ground-truth answers in the adopted benchmarks are error-free.
All tables rely on dataset labels; no label verification is performed.
domain assumption LLM-generated position evidence (71.17% overall correctness) is accurate enough to serve as the ground-truth set G for the position reward.
Section 3.2 and Table 10 report 71.17% overall correctness, leaving nearly 29% possibly wrong evidence.
domain assumption Qwen2.5-32B pass@8 difficulty labels accurately reflect task difficulty for data selection.
Section 5.2 uses pass@8 from Qwen2.5-32B to split data into Challenging/Variable; this assumes the proxy model's difficulty estimates are meaningful.

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Table reasoning, encompassing tasks such as table question answering, fact verification, and text-to-SQL, requires precise understanding of structured tabular data, coupled with numerical computation and code manipulation for effective inference. Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) approaches have achieved notable success but often struggle with generalization and robustness due to biases inherent in imitative learning. We introduce Reasoning-Table, the first application of reinforcement learning (RL) to table reasoning, achieving state-of-the-art performance. Through rigorous data preprocessing, reward design, and tailored training strategies, our method leverages simple rule-based outcome rewards to outperform SFT across multiple benchmarks. Unified training across diverse tasks enables Reasoning-Table to emerge as a robust table reasoning large language model, surpassing larger proprietary models like Claude-3.7-Sonnet by 4.0% on table reasoning benchmarks. The approach also achieves excellent performance on text-to-SQL tasks, reaching 68.3% performance on the BIRD dev dataset with a 7B model. Further experiments demonstrate that Reasoning-Table enhances the model's generalization capabilities and robustness.

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Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2506.01710 by the authors.

**Figure 2.** Training metrics for the WikiTQ dataset, showing the performance of RL and [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Effect of different data selection strategy. Table QA Text-to-SQL 50 55 60 65 70 Avg score of tasks 58.5 70.8 60.1 72.7 59.6 72.2 Data version All data Challenging data Variable-performance data [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_3.png] view at source ↗

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**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Test-Time Scaling. For the BIRD dataset, we [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_5.png]

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: We present the training metrics for the HiTab dataset, showing the performance of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_6.png]

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Bolivia President of the Senate: 1970 (1)

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D Other train results We also present the metric changes during the training process on the HiTab dataset

Similarity: simn = ( |Np∩Ng| |Np∪Ng| if |Np ∪ Ng| > 0 0 otherwise Use n = 2; if tokens are insufficient, set n = 1. D Other train results We also present the metric changes during the training process on the HiTab dataset. As shown in Figure 6, the model trained with our caref...
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</think> and <answer>

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The question states that Braden Gellenthien won the men’s competition in 2006

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Looking at the table, I can verify that <|Braden Gellenthien (USA) |><|Men’s Individual |> indeed won in <|2006|><|Year|>

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The question asks who won the next year after 2006, which would be 2007

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The years jump from 2006 to 2008

Looking at the table, I don’t see any entry for 2007. The years jump from 2006 to 2008

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the next year

In <|2008|><|Year|>, I can see that <|Jedd Greschock (USA) |><|Men’s Individual |> won the men’s individual competition. So the next winner after Braden Gellenthien that appears in the table is Jedd Greschock in 2008. However, there is no data for 2007 in the table. Wait, I ne...

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Not 1970

Barbados - Sir Stanley Robinson entered in 1966. Not 1970

work page 1966

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Barbados - Sir Theodore Brancker entered in 1961. Nope

work page 1961

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Name is missing, but the year is 1970

Bolivia - President of the Senate, entered 1970. Name is missing, but the year is 1970. So that’s one. . . . Wait, let me recount: - Bolivia: 2 entries (President of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies) both 1970. Total 2. - Brazil: 2 entries (President of the Senate and Chamber of Deputies) both 1970. Now total 4. - El Salvador: 1970 (with ?). Total 8. - ...

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Bolivia President of the Chamber of Deputies: 1970 (2)

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Bolivia President of the Senate: 1970 (1)

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Brazil President of the Chamber of Deputies: 1970 (4)

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But the entry for Uruguay’s Fernando Elichirigoity is March 1, 1970, which counts

Uruguay President of the Chamber of Deputies: March 1, 1970 (10) Additionally, Nicaragua has entries with ”None” so excluded. But the entry for Uruguay’s Fernando Elichirigoity is March 1, 1970, which counts. Wait, also, what about Venezuela? Their entries are 1968. No. Mexico’s entries are 1967. So the count is 10? Wait, but let me check the exact entrie...

work page 1970

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Therefore, the answer is 10

Uruguay President of the Chamber of Deputies: 1970 (10) Yes, that’s 10. Therefore, the answer is 10. But wait, I need to check if any of the entries with exact dates (e.g., July 20, 1970) are counted. Since the year is 1970, they should be counted regardless of the month. So even if they entered in July, it’s still 1970. So those are valid. Now, cross-che...

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