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A Survey of LLM × DATA

A collection of papers and projects related to LLMs and corresponding data-centric methods. arXiv

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If you find our survey useful, please cite the paper:

@article{LLMDATASurvey,
    title={A Survey of LLM × DATA},
    author={Xuanhe Zhou, Junxuan He, Wei Zhou, Haodong Chen, Zirui Tang, Haoyu Zhao, Xin Tong, Guoliang Li, Youmin Chen, Jun Zhou, Zhaojun Sun, Binyuan Hui, Shuo Wang, Conghui He, Zhiyuan Liu, Jingren Zhou, Fan Wu},
    year={2025},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.18458},
    url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18458}
}
@article{tangllmasanalyst,
    title={LLM/Agent-as-Data-Analyst: A Survey},
    author={Zirui Tang, Weizheng Wang, Zihang Zhou, Yang Jiao, Bangrui Xu, Boyu Niu, Xuanhe Zhou, Guoliang Li, Yeye He, Wei Zhou, Yitong Song, Cheng Tan, Bin Wang, Conghui He, Xiaoyang Wang, Fan Wu},
    year={2025},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.23988},
    url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23988}
}

🌤 The IaaS Concept of DATA4LLM

The IaaS concept for LLM data (phonetically echoing Infrastructure as a Service) defines the characteristics of high-quality datasets along four key dimensions: (1) Inclusiveness ensures broad coverage across domains, tasks, sources, languages, styles, and modalities. (2) Abundance emphasizes sufficient and well-balanced data volume to support scaling, fine-tuning, and continual learning without overfitting. (3) Articulation requires clear, coherent, and instructive content with step-by-step reasoning to enhance model understanding and task performance. (4) Sanitization involves rigorous filtering to remove private, toxic, unethical, and misleading content, ensuring data safety, neutrality, and compliance. arXiv

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🌟 LLM/Agent-as-Data-Analyst

We observe the evolution of LLM/Agent-as-Data-Analyst techniques follows a five-dimension trajectory: (1) Data Modality (homogeneous → heterogeneous); (2) Analysis Functionality (literal → semantic); (3) Knowledge Scope (closed-world →open-world); (4) Tool Integration (tool-coupled → tool-assisted); (5) Development Autonomy (manual → fully autonomous).

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Table of Contents

Datasets

  1. CommonCrawl: A massive web crawl dataset covering diverse languages and domains; widely used for LLM pretraining. [Source]

  2. The Stack: A large-scale dataset of permissively licensed source code in multiple programming languages; used for code LLMs. [HuggingFace]

  3. RedPajama: A replication of LLaMA’s training data recipe with open datasets; spans web, books, arXiv, and more. [Github]

  4. SlimPajama-627B-DC: A deduplicated and filtered subset of RedPajama (627B tokens); optimized for clean and efficient training. [HuggingFace]

  5. Alpaca-CoT: Instruction-following dataset enhanced with Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning prompts; used for dialogue fine-tuning. [Github]

  6. LLaVA-Pretrain: A multimodal dataset with image-text pairs for training visual language models like LLaVA. [HuggingFace]

  7. Wikipedia: Structured and encyclopedic content; a foundational source for general-purpose language models. [HuggingFace]

  8. C4: A cleaned version of CommonCrawl data, widely used in models like T5 for high-quality web text. [HuggingFace]

  9. BookCorpus: Contains free fiction books; often used to teach models long-form language understanding. [HuggingFace]

  10. Arxiv: Scientific paper corpus from arXiv, covering physics, math, CS, and more; useful for academic language modeling. [HuggingFace]

  11. PubMed: Biomedical literature dataset from the PubMed database; key resource for medical domain models. [Source]

  12. StackExchange: Community Q&A data covering domains like programming, math, philosophy, etc.; useful for QA and dialogue tasks. [Source]

  13. OpenWebText2: A high-quality open-source web text dataset based on URLs commonly cited on Reddit; GPT-style training corpus. [Source]

  14. OpenWebMath: A dataset of math questions and answers; designed to improve mathematical reasoning in LLMs. [HuggingFace]

  15. Falcon-RefinedWeb: Filtered web data used in training Falcon models; emphasizes data quality through rigorous preprocessing. [HuggingFace]

  16. CCI 3.0: A large-scale multi-domain Chinese web corpus, suitable for training high-quality Chinese LLMs. [HuggingFace]

  17. OmniCorpus: A unified multimodal dataset (text, image, audio) designed for general-purpose AI training. [Github]

  18. WanJuan3.0: A diverse and large-scale Chinese dataset including news, fiction, QA, and more; released by OpenDataLab. [Source]

0 Data Characteristics across LLM Stages

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Data for Pretraining

  1. OBELICS: An Open Web-Scale Filtered Dataset of Interleaved Image-Text Documents
    Hugo Laurençon, Lucile Saulnier, Léo Tronchon, et al. NeurIPS 2023. [Paper]
  2. Aligning Books and Movies: Towards Story-like Visual Explanations by Watching Movies and Reading Books
    Yukun Zhu, Ryan Kiros, Richard Zemel, et al. ICCV 2015. [Paper]

Data for Continual Pre-training

  1. MedicalGPT: Training Medical GPT Model
    Ming Xu. 2025. [Github]
  2. BBT-Fin: Comprehensive Construction of Chinese Financial Domain Pre-trained Language Model, Corpus and Benchmark
    Dakuan Lu, Hengkui Wu, Jiaqing Liang, et al. arXiv 2023. [Paper]

Data for Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT)

General Instruction Following

  1. Free dolly: Introducing the world’s first truly open instruction-tuned llm
    Mike Conover, Matt Hayes, Ankit Mathur, et al. 2023. [Source]

Specific Domain Usage

  1. MedicalGPT: Training Medical GPT Model [Github]
  2. DISC-LawLLM: Fine-tuning Large Language Models for Intelligent Legal Services
    Shengbin Yue, Wei Chen, Siyuan Wang, et al. arXiv 2023. [Paper]

Data for Reinforcement Learning (RL)

RLHF

  1. MedicalGPT: Training Medical GPT Model [Github]
  2. UltraFeedback: Boosting Language Models with Scaled AI Feedback
    Ganqu Cui, Lifan Yuan, Ning Ding, et al. ICML 2024. [Paper]

RoRL

  1. DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
    DeepSeek-AI. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  2. Kimi k1.5: Scaling Reinforcement Learning with LLMs
    Kimi Team. arXiv 2025. [Paper]

Data for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

  1. DH-RAG: A Dynamic Historical Context-Powered Retrieval-Augmented Generation Method for Multi-Turn Dialogue
    Feiyuan Zhang, Dezhi Zhu, James Ming, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  2. Medical Graph RAG: Towards Safe Medical Large Language Model via Graph Retrieval-Augmented Generation
    Junde Wu, Jiayuan Zhu, Yunli Qi, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  3. ERAGent: Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Language Models with Improved Accuracy, Efficiency, and Personalization
    Yunxiao Shi, Xing Zi, Zijing Shi, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  4. PersonaRAG: Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems with User-Centric Agents
    Saber Zerhoudi, Michael Granitzer. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  5. DISC-LawLLM: Fine-tuning Large Language Models for Intelligent Legal Services [Paper]

Data for LLM Evaluation

  1. MMMU: A Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark for Expert AGI
    Xiang Yue, Yuansheng Ni, Kai Zhang, et al. CVPR 2024. [Paper]
  2. LexEval: A Comprehensive Chinese Legal Benchmark for Evaluating Large Language Models
    Haitao Li, You Chen, Qingyao Ai, et al. NeurIPS 2024. [Paper]
  3. What disease does this patient have? a large-scale open domain question answering dataset from medical exams
    Di Jin, Eileen Pan, Nassim Oufattole, et al. AAAI 2021. [Paper]
  4. Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code
    Mark Chen, Jerry Tworek, Heewoo Jun, et al. arXiv 2021. [Paper]

Data for LLM Agents

  1. STeCa: Step-level Trajectory Calibration for LLM Agent Learning
    Hanlin Wang, Jian Wang, Chak Tou Leong, Wenjie Li. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  2. Large Language Model-Based Agents for Software Engineering: A Survey
    Junwei Liu, Kaixin Wang, Yixuan Chen, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  3. Advancing LLM Reasoning Generalists with Preference Trees
    Lifan Yuan, Ganqu Cui, Hanbin Wang, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  4. Tool Learning in the Wild: Empowering Language Models as Automatic Tool Agents
    Zhengliang Shi, Shen Gao, Lingyong Yan, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  5. Enhancing Chat Language Models by Scaling High-quality Instructional Conversations
    Ning Ding, Yulin Chen, Bokai Xu, et al. EMNLP 2023. [Paper]

1 Data Processing for LLM

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1.1 Data Acquisition

Data Sources

Public Data
  1. Project Gutenberg: A large collection of free eBooks from the public domain; supports training language models on long-form literary text. [Source]
  2. Open Library: A global catalog of books with metadata and some open-access content; useful for multilingual and knowledge-enhanced language modeling. [Source]
  3. GitHub: The world’s largest open-source code hosting platform; supports training models for code generation and understanding. [Source]
  4. GitLab: A DevOps platform for hosting both private and open-source projects; provides high-quality programming and documentation data. [Source]
  5. Bitbucket: A source code hosting platform by Atlassian; suitable for mining enterprise-level software development data. [Source]
  6. CulturaX: A Cleaned, Enormous, and Multilingual Dataset for Large Language Models in 167 Languages
    Thuat Nguyen, Chien Van Nguyen, Viet Dac Lai, et al. LREC-COLING 2024. [Paper]
  7. The Stack: 3 TB of permissively licensed source code
    Denis Kocetkov, Raymond Li, Loubna Ben Allal, et al. arXiv 2022. [Paper]
  8. mT5: A Massively Multilingual Pre-trained Text-to-Text Transformer
    Linting Xue, Noah Constant, Adam Roberts, et al. NAACL 2021. [Paper]
  9. Exploring the limits of transfer learning with a unified text-to-text transformer
    Colin Raffel, Noam Shazeer, Adam Roberts, et al. JMLR 2020. [Paper]
  10. CodeSearchNet Challenge: Evaluating the State of Semantic Code Search
    Hamel Husain, Ho-Hsiang Wu, Tiferet Gazit, et al. arXiv 2019. [Paper]
  11. Aligning Books and Movies: Towards Story-like Visual Explanations by Watching Movies and Reading Books [Paper]

Data Acquisition Methods

Website Crawling
  1. Beautiful Soup: A Python-based library for parsing HTML and XML documents; supports extracting structured information from static web pages. [Source]
  2. Selenium: A browser automation tool that enables interaction with dynamic web pages; suitable for scraping JavaScript-heavy content. [Github]
  3. Playwright: A browser automation framework developed by Microsoft; supports multi-browser environments and is ideal for high-quality, concurrent web scraping tasks. [Source]
  4. Puppeteer: A Node.js library that provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome or Chromium; useful for scraping complex pages, taking screenshots, or generating PDFs. [Source]
  5. An Empirical Comparison of Web Content Extraction Algorithms
    Janek Bevendorff, Sanket Gupta, Johannes Kiesel, Benno Stein. SIGIR 2023. [Paper]
  6. Trafilatura: A Web Scraping Library and Command-Line Tool for Text Discovery and Extraction
    Adrien Barbaresi. ACL 2021 Demo. [Paper]
  7. Fact or Fiction: Content Classification for Digital Libraries
    Aidan Finn, N. Kushmerick, Barry Smyth. DELOS Workshops / Conferences 2001. [Paper]
Layout Analysis
  1. PaddleOCR: An open-source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) toolkit based on the PaddlePaddle deep learning framework; supports multilingual text detection and recognition, ideal for extracting text from images and document layout analysis. [Github]
  2. YOLOv10: Real-Time End-to-End Object Detection
    Ao Wang, Hui Chen, Lihao Liu, et al. NeurIPS 2024. [Paper]
  3. UMIE: Unified Multimodal Information Extraction with Instruction Tuning
    Lin Sun, Kai Zhang, Qingyuan Li, Renze Lou. AAAI 2024. [Paper]
  4. ChatEL: Entity Linking with Chatbots
    Yifan Ding, Qingkai Zeng, Tim Weninger. LREC-COLING 2024. [Paper]
  5. Vary: Scaling up the Vision Vocabulary for Large Vision-Language Models
    Haoran Wei, Lingyu Kong, Jinyue Chen, et al. ECCV 2024. [Paper]
  6. General OCR Theory: Towards OCR - 2.0 via a Unified End - to - end Model
    Haoran Wei, Chenglong Liu, Jinyue Chen, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  7. Focus Anywhere for Fine-grained Multi-page Document Understanding
    Chenglong Liu, Haoran Wei, Jinyue Chen, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  8. MinerU: An Open-Source Solution for Precise Document Content Extraction
    Bin Wang, Chao Xu, Xiaomeng Zhao, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  9. WebIE: Faithful and Robust Information Extraction on the Web
    Chenxi Whitehouse, Clara Vania, Alham Fikri Aji, et al. ACL 2023. [Paper]
  10. ReFinED: An Efficient Zero-shot-capable Approach to End-to-End Entity Linking
    Tom Ayoola, Shubhi Tyagi, Joseph Fisher, et al. NAACL 2022 Industry Track. [Paper]
  11. Alignment-Augmented Consistent Translation for Multilingual Open Information Extraction
    Keshav Kolluru, Muqeeth Mohammed, Shubham Mittal, et al. ACL 2022. [Paper]
  12. LayoutLMv3: Pre-training for Document AI with Unified Text and Image Masking
    Yupan Huang, Tengchao Lv, Lei Cui, et al. ACM Multimedia 2022. [Paper]
  13. Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision
    Alec Radford, Jong Wook Kim, Chris Hallacy, et al. ICML 2021. [Paper]
  14. Tesseract: an open-source optical character recognition engine
    Anthony Kay. Linux Journal, Volume 2007. [Paper]

1.2 Data Deduplication

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  1. Analysis of the Reasoning with Redundant Information Provided Ability of Large Language Models
    Wenbei Xie. arXiv 2023. [Paper]
  2. Scaling Laws and Interpretability of Learning from Repeated Data
    Danny Hernandez, Tom Brown, Tom Conerly, et al. arXiv 2022. [Paper]

Exact Substring Matching

  1. BaichuanSEED: Sharing the Potential of ExtensivE Data Collection and Deduplication by Introducing a Competitive Large Language Model Baseline
    Guosheng Dong, Da Pan, Yiding Sun, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  2. Deduplicating Training Data Makes Language Models Better
    Katherine Lee, Daphne Ippolito, Andrew Nystrom, et al. ACL 2022. [Paper]
  3. Suffix arrays: a new method for on-line string searches
    Udi Manber, Gene Myers. SIAM Journal on Computing 1993. [Paper]

Approximate Hashing-based Deduplication

  1. BaichuanSEED: Sharing the Potential of ExtensivE Data Collection and Deduplication by Introducing a Competitive Large Language Model Baseline [Paper]
  2. LSHBloom: Memory-efficient, Extreme-scale Document Deduplication
    Arham Khan, Robert Underwood, Carlo Siebenschuh, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  3. SimiSketch: Efficiently Estimating Similarity of streaming Multisets
    Fenghao Dong, Yang He, Yutong Liang, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  4. DotHash: Estimating Set Similarity Metrics for Link Prediction and Document Deduplication
    Igor Nunes, Mike Heddes, Pere Vergés, et al. KDD 2023. [Paper]
  5. Formalizing BPE Tokenization
    Martin Berglund (Umeå University), Brink van der Merwe (Stellenbosch University). NCMA 2023. [Paper]
  6. SlimPajama-DC: Understanding Data Combinations for LLM Training
    Zhiqiang Shen, Tianhua Tao, Liqun Ma, et al. arXiv 2023. [Paper]
  7. Deduplicating Training Data Makes Language Models Better [Paper]
  8. Noise-Robust De-Duplication at Scale
    Emily Silcock, Luca D'Amico-Wong, Jinglin Yang, Melissa Dell. arXiv 2022. [Paper]
  9. In Defense of Minhash over Simhash
    Anshumali Shrivastava, Ping Li. AISTATS 2014. [Paper]
  10. Similarity estimation techniques from rounding algorithms
    Moses S. Charikar. STOC 2002. [Paper]
  11. On the Resemblance and Containment of Documents
    A. Broder. Compression and Complexity of SEQUENCES 1997. [Paper]

Approximate Frequency-based Down-Weighting

  1. SoftDedup: an Efficient Data Reweighting Method for Speeding Up Language Model Pre-training
    Nan He, Weichen Xiong, Hanwen Liu, et al. ACL 2024. [Paper]

Embedding-Based Clustering

  1. FairDeDup: Detecting and Mitigating Vision-Language Fairness Disparities in Semantic Dataset Deduplication
    Eric Slyman, Stefan Lee, Scott Cohen, Kushal Kafle. CVPR 2024. [Paper]
  2. Effective Pruning of Web-Scale Datasets Based on Complexity of Concept Clusters
    Amro Abbas, Evgenia Rusak, Kushal Tirumala, et al. ICLR 2024. [Paper]
  3. D4: Improving LLM Pretraining via Document De-Duplication and Diversification
    Kushal Tirumala, Daniel Simig, Armen Aghajanyan, Ari Morcos. NeurIPS 2023. [Paper]
  4. SemDeDup: Data-efficient learning at web-scale through semantic deduplication
    Amro Abbas, Kushal Tirumala, Dániel Simig, et al. ICLR 2023. [Paper]
  5. OPT: Open Pre-trained Transformer Language Models
    Susan Zhang, Stephen Roller, Naman Goyal, et al. arXiv 2022. [Paper]
  6. Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision [Paper]
  7. OpenCLIP
    Gabriel Ilharco, Mitchell Wortsman, Ross Wightman, et al. 2021. [Paper]
  8. LAION-400M: Open Dataset of CLIP-Filtered 400 Million Image-Text Pairs
    Christoph Schuhmann, Richard Vencu, Romain Beaumont, et al. NeurIPS 2021. [Paper]

Non-Text Data Deduplication

  1. DataComp: In search of the next generation of multimodal datasets
    Samir Yitzhak Gadre, Gabriel Ilharco, Alex Fang, et al. NeurIPS 2023. [Paper]
  2. SemDeDup: Data-efficient learning at web-scale through semantic deduplication [Paper]
  3. Contrastive Learning with Large Memory Bank and Negative Embedding Subtraction for Accurate Copy Detection
    Shuhei Yokoo. arXiv 2021. [Paper]
  4. Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision [Paper]

1.3 Data Filtering

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Sample-level Filtering

(1) Statistical Evaluation
  1. Perplexed by Perplexity: Perplexity-Based Data Pruning With Small Reference Models
    Zachary Ankner, Cody Blakeney, Kartik Sreenivasan, et al. ICLR 2025. [Paper]
  2. Data-efficient Fine-tuning for LLM-based Recommendation
    Xinyu Lin, Wenjie Wang, Yongqi Li, et al. SIGIR 2024. [Paper]
  3. SHED: Shapley-Based Automated Dataset Refinement for Instruction Fine-Tuning
    Yexiao He, Ziyao Wang, Zheyu Shen, et al. NeurIPS 2024. [Paper]
  4. SmallToLarge (S2L): Scalable Data Selection for Fine-tuning Large Language Models by Summarizing Training Trajectories of Small Models
    Yu Yang, Siddhartha Mishra, Jeffrey Chiang, et al. NeurIPS 2024. [Paper]
  5. Effective Pruning of Web-Scale Datasets Based on Complexity of Concept Clusters [Paper]
  6. WizardLM: Empowering Large Pre-Trained Language Models to Follow Complex Instructions
    Can Xu, Qingfeng Sun, Kai Zheng, et al. ICLR 2024. [Paper]
  7. Superfiltering: Weak-to-Strong Data Filtering for Fast Instruction-Tuning
    Ming Li, Yong Zhang, Shwai He, et al. ACL 2024. [Paper]
  8. Smaller Language Models are capable of selecting Instruction-Tuning Training Data for Larger Language Models
    Dheeraj Mekala, Alex Nguyen, Jingbo Shang. ACL 2024. [Paper]
  9. Dolma: an Open Corpus of Three Trillion Tokens for Language Model Pretraining Research
    Luca Soldaini, Rodney Kinney, Akshita Bhagia, et al. ACL 2024. [Paper]
  10. From Quantity to Quality: Boosting LLM Performance with Self-Guided Data Selection for Instruction Tuning
    Ming Li, Yong Zhang, Zhitao Li, et al. NAACL 2024. [Paper]
  11. Improving Pretraining Data Using Perplexity Correlations
    Tristan Thrush, Christopher Potts, Tatsunori Hashimoto. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  12. Introducing MPT-7B: A New Standard for Open-Source, Commercially Usable LLMs
    The Mosaic Research Team. 2023. [Paper]
  13. Instruction Tuning with GPT-4
    Baolin Peng, Chunyuan Li, Pengcheng He, et al. arXiv 2023. [Paper]
  14. DINOv2: Learning Robust Visual Features without Supervision
    Maxime Oquab, Timothée Darcet, Théo Moutakanni, et al. arXiv 2023. [Paper]
  15. The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling
    Leo Gao, Stella Biderman, Sid Black, et al. arXiv 2021. [Paper]
  16. Language Models are Unsupervised Multitask Learners
    Alec Radford, Jeffrey Wu, Rewon Child, et al. OpenAI blog 2019. [Paper]
  17. Bag of Tricks for Efficient Text Classification
    Armand Joulin, Edouard Grave, Piotr Bojanowski, Tomas Mikolov. EACL 2017. [Paper]
  18. The Shapley Value: Essays in Honor of Lloyd S. Shapley
    A. E. Roth, Ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. [Source]
(2) Model Scoring
  1. SEAL: Safety-enhanced Aligned LLM Fine-tuning via Bilevel Data Selection
    Han Shen, Pin-Yu Chen, Payel Das, Tianyi Chen. ICLR 2025. [Paper]
  2. SCAR: Data Selection via Style-Consistency-Aware Response Ranking for Efficient Instruction Tuning of Large Language Models
    Zhuang Li, Yuncheng Hua, Thuy-Trang Vu, et al. ACL 2025. [Paper]
  3. QuRating: Selecting High-Quality Data for Training Language Models
    Alexander Wettig, Aatmik Gupta, Saumya Malik, Danqi Chen. ICML 2024. [Paper]
  4. What Makes Good Data for Alignment? A Comprehensive Study of Automatic Data Selection in Instruction Tuning
    Wei Liu, Weihao Zeng, Keqing He, et al. ICLR 2024. [Paper]
  5. LAB: Large-Scale Alignment for ChatBots
    Shivchander Sudalairaj, Abhishek Bhandwaldar, Aldo Pareja, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  6. Biases in Large Language Models: Origins, Inventory, and Discussion
    Roberto Navigli, Simone Conia, Björn Ross. ACM JDIQ, 2023. [Paper]
(3) Hybrid Methods
  1. Emergent and predictable memorization in large language models
    Stella Biderman, USVSN Sai Prashanth, Lintang Sutawika, et al. NeurIPS 2023. [Paper]
  2. When Less is More: Investigating Data Pruning for Pretraining LLMs at Scale
    Max Marion, Ahmet Üstün, Luiza Pozzobon, et al. arXiv 2023. [Paper]
  3. Instruction Mining: Instruction Data Selection for Tuning Large Language Models
    Yihan Cao, Yanbin Kang, Chi Wang, Lichao Sun. arXiv 2023. [Paper]
  4. Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models
    Hugo Touvron, Louis Martin, Kevin Stone, et al. arXiv 2023. [Paper]
  5. MoDS: Model-oriented Data Selection for Instruction Tuning
    Qianlong Du, Chengqing Zong, Jiajun Zhang. arXiv 2023. [Paper]
  6. Economic Hyperparameter Optimization With Blended Search Strategy
    Chi Wang, Qingyun Wu, Silu Huang, Amin Saied. ICLR 2021. [Paper]
  7. BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding
    Jacob Devlin, Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee, et al. NAACL 2019. [Paper]
  8. Active Learning for Convolutional Neural Networks: A Core-Set Approach
    Ozan Sener, Silvio Savarese. ICLR 2018. [Paper]

Content-level Filtering

  1. spaCy: An industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) library that supports tokenization, part-of-speech tagging, named entity recognition, dependency parsing, and more; well-suited for fast and accurate text processing and information extraction. [Source]
  2. CogVideoX: Text-to-Video Diffusion Models with An Expert Transformer
    Zhuoyi Yang, Jiayan Teng, Wendi Zheng, et al. ICLR 2025. [Paper]
  3. HunyuanVideo: A Systematic Framework For Large Video Generative Models
    Weijie Kong, Qi Tian, Zijian Zhang, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  4. Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Models
    Team Wan et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  5. Video-LLaMA: An Instruction-tuned Audio-Visual Language Model for Video Understanding
    Hang Zhang, Xin Li, Lidong Bing. EMNLP 2023 (System Demonstrations). [Paper]
  6. Analyzing Leakage of Personally Identifiable Information in Language Models
    Nils Lukas, Ahmed Salem, Robert Sim, et al. IEEE S&P 2023. [Paper]
  7. DeID-GPT: Zero-shot Medical Text De-Identification by GPT-4
    Zhengliang Liu, Yue Huang, Xiaowei Yu, et al. arXiv 2023. [Paper]
  8. Baichuan 2: Open Large-scale Language Models
    Aiyuan Yang, Bin Xiao, Bingning Wang, et al. arXiv 2023. [Paper]
  9. Exploring Video Quality Assessment on User Generated Contents from Aesthetic and Technical Perspectives
    Haoning Wu, Erli Zhang, Liang Liao, et al. arXiv 2022. [Paper]
  10. LAION-400M: Open Dataset of CLIP-Filtered 400 Million Image-Text Pairs [Paper]
  11. YOLOX: Exceeding YOLO Series in 2021
    Zheng Ge, Songtao Liu, Feng Wang, et al. arXiv 2021. [Paper]
  12. FLAIR: An Easy-to-Use Framework for State-of-the-Art NLP
    Alan Akbik, Tanja Bergmann, Duncan Blythe, et al. NAACL 2019 Demos. [Paper]

1.4 Data Selection

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  1. A Survey on Data Selection for Language Models
    Alon Albalak, Yanai Elazar, Sang Michael Xie, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]

  2. A Survey on Data Selection for LLM Instruction Tuning
    Jiahao Wang, Bolin Zhang, Qianlong Du, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]

Similarity-based Data Selection

  1. spaCy: [Source]
  2. Enabling On-Device Large Language Model Personalization with Self-Supervised Data Selection and Synthesis
    Ruiyang Qin, Jun Xia, Zhenge Jia, et al. DAC 2024. [Paper]
  3. CoLoR-Filter: Conditional Loss Reduction Filtering for Targeted Language Model Pre-training
    David Brandfonbrener, Hanlin Zhang, Andreas Kirsch, et al. NeurIPS 2024. [Paper]
  4. Efficient Continual Pre-training for Building Domain Specific Large Language Models
    Yong Xie, Karan Aggarwal, Aitzaz Ahmad. Findings of ACL 2024. [Paper]
  5. Data Selection for Language Models via Importance Resampling
    Sang Michael Xie, Shibani Santurkar, Tengyu Ma, Percy Liang. NeurIPS 2023. [Paper]

Optimization-based Data Selection

  1. DSDM: model-aware dataset selection with datamodels
    Logan Engstrom, Axel Feldmann, Aleksander Mądry. ICML 2024. [Paper]
  2. LESS: Selecting Influential Data for Targeted Instruction Tuning
    Mengzhou Xia, Sadhika Malladi, Suchin Gururangan, et al. ICML 2024. [Paper]
  3. TSDS: Data Selection for Task-Specific Model Finetuning
    Zifan Liu, Amin Karbasi, Theodoros Rekatsinas. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  4. Datamodels: Understanding Predictions with Data and Data with Predictions
    Andrew Ilyas, Sung Min Park, Logan Engstrom, et al. ICML 2022. [Paper]

Model-based Data Selection

  1. Autonomous Data Selection with Language Models for Mathematical Texts
    Yifan Zhang, Yifan Luo, Yang Yuan, et al. ICLR 2024. [Paper]

1.5 Data Mixing

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  1. Mixtera: A Data Plane for Foundation Model Training Maximilian Böther, Xiaozhe Yao, Tolga Kerimoglu, Dan Graur, Viktor Gsteiger, Ana Klimovic. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  2. Scalable Data Ablation Approximations for Language Models through Modular Training and Merging
    Clara Na, Ian Magnusson, Ananya Harsh Jha, et al. EMNLP 2024. [Paper]
  3. Mixture-of-LoRAs: An Efficient Multitask Tuning for Large Language Models
    Wenfeng Feng, Chuzhan Hao, Yuewei Zhang, et al. COLING 2024. [Paper]

Heuristic Optimization

  1. BiMix: Bivariate Data Mixing Law for Language Model Pretraining
    Ce Ge, Zhijian Ma, Daoyuan Chen, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  2. Maximize Your Data's Potential: Enhancing LLM Accuracy with Two-Phase Pretraining
    Steven Feng, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Kezhi Kong, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  3. SlimPajama-DC: Understanding Data Combinations for LLM Training [Paper]
  4. Evaluating Large Language Models Trained on Code [Paper]
  5. Exploring the limits of transfer learning with a unified text-to-text transformer [Paper]
  6. CommonsenseQA: A Question Answering Challenge Targeting Commonsense Knowledge
    Alon Talmor, Jonathan Herzig, Nicholas Lourie, et al. NAACL 2019. [Paper]
  7. A mathematical theory of communication
    C. E. Shannon. The Bell system technical journal 1948. [Paper]

Bilevel Optimization

  1. ScaleBiO: Scalable Bilevel Optimization for LLM Data Reweighting
    Rui Pan, Jipeng Zhang, Xingyuan Pan, et al. ACL 2025. [Paper]
  2. DoGE: Domain Reweighting with Generalization Estimation
    Simin Fan, Matteo Pagliardini, Martin Jaggi. ICML 2024. [Paper]
  3. An overview of bilevel optimization
    Benoît Colson, Patrice Marcotte, Gilles Savard. AOR 2007. [Paper]

Distributionally Robust Optimization

  1. Task-level Distributionally Robust Optimization for Large Language Model-based Dense Retrieval
    Guangyuan Ma, Yongliang Ma, Xing Wu, et al. AAAI 2025. [Paper]
  2. DoReMi: Optimizing Data Mixtures Speeds Up Language Model Pretraining
    Sang Michael Xie, Hieu Pham, Xuanyi Dong, et al. NeurIPS 2023. [Paper]
  3. Qwen Technical Report
    Jinze Bai, Shuai Bai, Yunfei Chu, Zeyu Cui, et al. arXiv 2023. [Paper]

Model-Based Optimization

  1. RegMix: Data Mixture as Regression for Language Model Pre-training
    Qian Liu, Xiaosen Zheng, Niklas Muennighoff, et al. ICLR 2025. [Paper]
  2. Data Mixing Laws: Optimizing Data Mixtures by Predicting Language Modeling Performance
    Jiasheng Ye, Peiju Liu, Tianxiang Sun, et al. ICLR 2025. [Paper]
  3. CMR Scaling Law: Predicting Critical Mixture Ratios for Continual Pre-training of Language Models
    Jiawei Gu, Zacc Yang, Chuanghao Ding, et al. EMNLP 2024. [Paper]
  4. TinyLlama: An Open-Source Small Language Model
    Peiyuan Zhang, Guangtao Zeng, Tianduo Wang, Wei Lu. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  5. BiMix: Bivariate Data Mixing Law for Language Model Pretraining [Paper]
  6. D-CPT Law: Domain-specific Continual Pre-Training Scaling Law for Large Language Models
    Haoran Que, Jiaheng Liu, Ge Zhang, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  7. Data Proportion Detection for Optimized Data Management for Large Language Models
    Hao Liang, Keshi Zhao, Yajie Yang, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  8. DoReMi: Optimizing Data Mixtures Speeds Up Language Model Pretraining [Paper]
  9. Training compute-optimal large language models
    Jordan Hoffmann, Sebastian Borgeaud, Arthur Mensch, et al. NeurIPS 2022. [Paper]
  10. LightGBM: a highly efficient gradient boosting decision tree
    Guolin Ke, Qi Meng, Thomas Finley, et al. NeurIPS 2017. [Paper]

1.6 Data Distillation and Synthesis

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  1. How to Synthesize Text Data without Model Collapse?
    Xuekai Zhu, Daixuan Cheng, Hengli Li, et al. ICML 2025. [Paper]
  2. Differentially Private Synthetic Data via Foundation Model APIs 2: Text
    Chulin Xie, Zinan Lin, Arturs Backurs, et al. ICML 2024. [Paper]
  3. LLM See, LLM Do: Leveraging Active Inheritance to Target Non-Differentiable Objectives
    Luísa Shimabucoro, Sebastian Ruder, Julia Kreutzer, et al. EMNLP 2024. [Paper]
  4. WizardLM: Empowering Large Pre-Trained Language Models to Follow Complex Instructions [Paper]
  5. Augmenting Math Word Problems via Iterative Question Composing
    Haoxiong Liu, Yifan Zhang, Yifan Luo, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]

Knowledge Distillation

  1. Multistage Collaborative Knowledge Distillation from a Large Language Model for Semi-Supervised Sequence Generation
    Jiachen Zhao, Wenlong Zhao, Andrew Drozdov, et al. ACL 2024. [Paper]
  2. PaD: Program-aided Distillation Can Teach Small Models Reasoning Better than Chain-of-thought Fine-tuning
    Xuekai Zhu, Biqing Qi, Kaiyan Zhang, et al. NAACL 2024. [Paper]
  3. Knowledge Distillation Using Frontier Open-source LLMs: Generalizability and the Role of Synthetic Data
    Anup Shirgaonkar, Nikhil Pandey, Nazmiye Ceren Abay, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  4. Symbolic chain-of-thought distillation: Small models can also "think" step-by-step
    Liunian Harold Li, Jack Hessel, Youngjae Yu, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  5. Knowledge-augmented reasoning distillation for small language models in knowledge-intensive tasks
    Minki Kang, Seanie Lee, Jinheon Baek, et al. NeurIPS 2023. [Paper]
  6. Dialogue chain-of-thought distillation for commonsense-aware conversational agents
    Hyungjoo Chae, Yongho Song, Kai Tzu-iunn Ong, et al. arXiv 2023. [Paper]
  7. MCC-KD: Multi-CoT consistent knowledge distillation
    Hongzhan Chen, Siyue Wu, Xiaojun Quan, et al. arXiv 2023. [Paper]
  8. Large language models are reasoning teachers
    Namgyu Ho, Laura Schmid, Se-Young Yun. arXiv 2023. [Paper]
  9. Leveraging training data in few-shot prompting for numerical reasoning
    Zhanming Jie, Wei Lu. arXiv 2023. [Paper]
  10. Distilling reasoning capabilities into smaller language models
    Kumar Shridhar, Alessandro Stolfo, Mrinmaya Sachan. arXiv 2023. [Paper]
  11. SCOTT: Self-consistent chain-of-thought distillation
    Peifeng Wang, Zhengyang Wang, Zheng Li, et al. arXiv 2023. [Paper]
  12. Democratizing reasoning ability: Tailored learning from large language model
    Zhaoyang Wang, Shaohan Huang, Yuxuan Liu, et al. arXiv 2023. [Paper]
  13. Explanations from large language models make small reasoners better
    Shiyang Li, Jianshu Chen, Yelong Shen, et al. arXiv 2022. [Paper]
  14. Training Verifiers to Solve Math Word Problems
    Karl Cobbe, Vineet Kosaraju, Mohammad Bavarian, et al. arXiv 2021. [Paper]

Pre-training Data Augmentation

  1. BERT-Tiny-Chinese: A lightweight Chinese BERT pre-trained model released by CKIP Lab, with a small number of parameters; suitable for use as an encoder in pre-training data augmentation tasks to enhance efficiency for compact models. [Source]
  2. Case2Code: Scalable Synthetic Data for Code Generation
    Yunfan Shao, Linyang Li, Yichuan Ma, et al. COLING 2025. [Paper]
  3. Advancing Mathematical Reasoning in Language Models: The Impact of Problem-Solving Data, Data Synthesis Methods, and Training Stages
    Zui Chen, Tianqiao Liu, Mi Tian, et al. ICLR 2025. [Paper]
  4. Florence-2: Advancing a Unified Representation for a Variety of Vision Tasks
    Bin Xiao, Haiping Wu, Weijian Xu, et al. CVPR 2024. [Paper]
  5. DiffuseMix: Label-Preserving Data Augmentation with Diffusion Models
    Khawar Islam, Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer, Arif Mahmood, et al. CVPR 2024. [Paper]
  6. Magicoder: Empowering Code Generation with OSS-Instruct
    Yuxiang Wei, Zhe Wang, Jiawei Liu, et al. ICML 2024. [Paper]
  7. Instruction Pre-Training: Language Models are Supervised Multitask Learners
    Daixuan Cheng, Yuxian Gu, Shaohan Huang, et al. EMNLP 2024. [Paper]
  8. Dolma: an Open Corpus of Three Trillion Tokens for Language Model Pretraining Research [Paper]
  9. Rephrasing the Web: A Recipe for Compute and Data-Efficient Language Modeling
    Pratyush Maini, Skyler Seto, Richard Bai, et al. ACL 2024. [Paper]
  10. VeCLIP: Improving CLIP Training via Visual-Enriched Captions
    Zhengfeng Lai, Haotian Zhang, Bowen Zhang, et al. ECCV 2024. [Paper]
  11. JiuZhang3.0: Efficiently Improving Mathematical Reasoning by Training Small Data Synthesis Models
    Kun Zhou, Beichen Zhang, Jiapeng Wang, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  12. Diffusion Models and Representation Learning: A Survey
    Michael Fuest, Pingchuan Ma, Ming Gui, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  13. CtrlSynth: Controllable Image Text Synthesis for Data-Efficient Multimodal Learning
    Qingqing Cao, Mahyar Najibi, Sachin Mehta. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  14. Qwen2 Technical Report
    An Yang, Baosong Yang, Binyuan Hui, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  15. TinyLlama: An Open-Source Small Language Model [Paper]
  16. On the Diversity of Synthetic Data and its Impact on Training Large Language Models
    Hao Chen, Abdul Waheed, Xiang Li, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  17. Towards Effective and Efficient Continual Pre-training of Large Language Models
    Jie Chen, Zhipeng Chen, Jiapeng Wang, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  18. Improving CLIP Training with Language Rewrites
    Lijie Fan, Dilip Krishnan, Phillip Isola, et al. NeurIPS 2023. [Paper]
  19. Effective Data Augmentation With Diffusion Models
    Brandon Trabucco, Kyle Doherty, Max Gurinas, et al. arXiv 2023. [Paper]
  20. Mistral 7B
    Albert Q. Jiang, Alexandre Sablayrolles, Arthur Mensch, et al. arXiv 2023. [Paper]
  21. Llama 2: Open Foundation and Fine-Tuned Chat Models [Paper]
  22. SDXL: Improving Latent Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Image Synthesis
    Dustin Podell, Zion English, Kyle Lacey, et al. arXiv 2023. [Paper]
  23. Documenting Large Webtext Corpora: A Case Study on the Colossal Clean Crawled Corpus
    Jesse Dodge, Maarten Sap, Ana Marasović, et al. EMNLP 2021. [Paper]
  24. The Pile: An 800GB Dataset of Diverse Text for Language Modeling [Paper]
  25. First Steps of an Approach to the ARC Challenge based on Descriptive Grid Models and the Minimum Description Length Principle
    Sébastien Ferré (Univ Rennes, CNRS, IRISA). arXiv 2021. [Paper]
  26. TinyBERT: Distilling BERT for Natural Language Understanding
    Xiaoqi Jiao, Yichun Yin, Lifeng Shang, et al. Findings of EMNLP 2020. [Paper]
  27. HellaSwag: Can a Machine Really Finish Your Sentence?
    Rowan Zellers, Ari Holtzman, Yonatan Bisk, et al. ACL 2019. [Paper]

SFT Data Augmentation

  1. Key-Point-Driven Data Synthesis with its Enhancement on Mathematical Reasoning
    Yiming Huang, Xiao Liu, Yeyun Gong, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  2. Augmenting Math Word Problems via Iterative Question Composing [Paper]
  3. AgentInstruct: Toward Generative Teaching with Agentic Flows
    Arindam Mitra, Luciano Del Corro, Guoqing Zheng, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  4. Synthetic Data (Almost) from Scratch: Generalized Instruction Tuning for Language Models
    Haoran Li, Qingxiu Dong, Zhengyang Tang, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  5. Self-Instruct: Aligning Language Models with Self-Generated Instructions
    Yizhong Wang, Yeganeh Kordi, Swaroop Mishra, et al. ACL 2023. [Paper]

SFT Reasoning Data Augmentation

  1. DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning [Paper]
  2. LIMO: Less is More for Reasoning
    Yixin Ye, Zhen Huang, Yang Xiao, et al. COLM 2025. [Paper]
  3. LLMs Can Easily Learn to Reason from Demonstrations: Structure, Not Content, Is What Matters!
    Dacheng Li, Shiyi Cao, Tyler Griggs, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  4. Satori: Reinforcement Learning with Chain-of-Action-Thought Enhances LLM Reasoning via Autoregressive Search
    Maohao Shen, Guangtao Zeng, Zhenting Qi, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  5. Advancing Language Model Reasoning through Reinforcement Learning and Inference Scaling
    Zhenyu Hou, Xin Lv, Rui Lu, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  6. MUSTARD: Mastering Uniform Synthesis of Theorem and Proof Data
    Yinya Huang, Xiaohan Lin, Zhengying Liu, et al. ICLR 2024. [Paper]
  7. Math-Shepherd: Verify and Reinforce LLMs Step-by-step without Human Annotations
    Peiyi Wang, Lei Li, Zhihong Shao, et al. ACL 2024. [Paper]
  8. NuminaMath: The largest public dataset in AI4Maths with 860k pairs of competition math problems and solutions
    Jia Li, Edward Beeching, Lewis Tunstall, et al. 2024. [Paper]
  9. QwQ: Reflect Deeply on the Boundaries of the Unknown
    Qwen Team. 2024. [Source]
  10. Let's Verify Step by Step
    Hunter Lightman, Vineet Kosaraju, Yura Burda, et al. arXiv 2023. [Paper]

Reinforcement Learning

  1. Judging LLM-as-a-Judge with MT-Bench and Chatbot Arena
    Lianmin Zheng, Wei-Lin Chiang, Ying Sheng, et al. NeurIPS 2023. [Paper]
  2. Training a Helpful and Harmless Assistant with Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback
    Yuntao Bai, Andy Jones, Kamal Ndousse, et al. arXiv 2022. [Paper]

Retrieval-Augmentation Generation

  1. Mitigating the Privacy Issues in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) via Pure Synthetic Data
    Shenglai Zeng, Jiankun Zhang, Pengfei He, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]

1.7 End-to-End Data Processing Pipelines

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1.7.1 Typical data processing frameworks

  1. Mixtera: A Data Plane for Foundation Model Training
    Maximilian Böther, Xiaozhe Yao, Tolga Kerimoglu, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  2. Data-Juicer: A One-Stop Data Processing System for Large Language Models
    Daoyuan Chen, Yilun Huang, Zhijian Ma, et al. SIGMOD 2024. [Paper]
  3. An Integrated Data Processing Framework for Pretraining Foundation Models
    Yiding Sun, Feng Wang, Yutao Zhu, et al. SIGIR 2024. [Paper]
  4. Dataverse: Open-Source ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) Pipeline for Large Language Models
    Hyunbyung Park, Sukyung Lee, Gyoungjin Gim, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]

1.7.2 Typical data pipelines

  1. Common Crawl: A large-scale publicly accessible web crawl dataset that provides massive raw webpages and metadata. It serves as a crucial raw data source in typical pretraining data pipelines, where it undergoes multiple processing steps such as cleaning, deduplication, and formatting to produce high-quality corpora for downstream model training. [Source]
  2. The RefinedWeb dataset for falcon LLM: outperforming curated corpora with web data only
    Guilherme Penedo, Quentin Malartic, Daniel Hesslow, et al. NeurIPS 2023. [Paper]
  3. Trafilatura: A Web Scraping Library and Command-Line Tool for Text Discovery and Extraction [Paper]
  4. Scaling Language Models: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Training Gopher
    Jack W. Rae, Sebastian Borgeaud, Trevor Cai, et al. arXiv 2021. [Paper]
  5. CCNet: Extracting High Quality Monolingual Datasets from Web Crawl Data
    Guillaume Wenzek, Marie - Anne Lachaux, Alexis Conneau, et al. LREC 2020. [Paper]
  6. Exploring the limits of transfer learning with a unified text-to-text transformer [Paper]
  7. Bag of Tricks for Efficient Text Classification [Paper]

1.7.3 Orchestration of data pipelines

  1. Data-Juicer Sandbox: A Feedback-Driven Suite for Multimodal Data-Model Co-development
    Daoyuan Chen, Haibin Wang, Yilun Huang, et al. ICML 2025 (Spotlight). [Paper]

2 Data Storage for LLM

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2.1 Data Formats

Training Data Format

  1. TFRecord: A binary data storage format recommended by TensorFlow, suitable for efficient storage and reading of large-scale training data. [Source]
  2. MindRecord: An efficient data storage format used by MindSpore, supporting multi-platform data management. [Source]
  3. tf.data.Dataset: An abstract interface in TensorFlow representing collections of training data, enabling flexible data manipulation. [Source]
  4. COCO JSON: COCO JSON format uses structured JSON to store images and their corresponding labels, widely used in computer vision datasets. [Source]

Model Data Format

  1. PyTorch-specific formats (.pt, .pth): PyTorch’s .pt and .pth formats are used to save model parameters and architecture, supporting model storage and loading. [Source]
  2. TensorFlow(SavedModel, .ckpt): TensorFlow’s SavedModel and checkpoint formats save complete model information, facilitating model reproduction and deployment. [Source]
  3. Hugging Face Transformers library: Hugging Face offers a unified model format interface to facilitate saving and usage of various pretrained models. [Source]
  4. Pickle (.pkl): Pickle format is used for serializing models and data, suitable for quick saving and loading. [Source]
  5. ONNX: An open cross-platform model format supporting model conversion and deployment across different frameworks. [Source]
  6. An Empirical Study of Safetensors' Usage Trends and Developers' Perceptions
    Beatrice Casey, Kaia Damian, Andrew Cotaj, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]

2.2 Data Distribution

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  1. DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning [Paper]
  2. CC-GPX: Extracting High-Quality Annotated Geospatial Data from Common Crawl
    Ilya Ilyankou, Meihui Wang, Stefano Cavazzi, et al. SIGSPATIAL 2024. [Paper]

Distributed Storage Systems

  1. JuiceFS: A high-performance cloud-native distributed file system designed for efficient storage and access of large-scale data. [Github]
  2. 3FS: A distributed file system designed for deep learning and large-scale data processing, emphasizing high throughput and reliability. [Github]
  3. S3: A widely used cloud storage service offering secure, scalable, and highly available object storage solutions. [Source]
  4. Hdfs architecture guide. Hadoop apache project
    D. Borthakur et al. Hadoop apache project, 53(1-13):2, 2008. [Source]

Heterogeneous Storage Systems

  1. ProTrain: Efficient LLM Training via Memory-Aware Techniques
    Hanmei Yang, Jin Zhou, Yao Fu, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  2. ZeRO-infinity: breaking the GPU memory wall for extreme scale deep learning
    Samyam Rajbhandari, Olatunji Ruwase, Jeff Rasley, et al. SC 2021. [Paper]
  3. ZeRO-Offload: Democratizing Billion-Scale Model Training
    Jie Ren, Samyam Rajbhandari, Reza Yazdani Aminabadi, et al. USENIX ATC 2021. [Paper]
  4. ZeRO: memory optimizations toward training trillion parameter models
    Samyam Rajbhandari, Jeff Rasley, Olatunji Ruwase, et al. SC 2020. [Paper]
  5. vDNN: virtualized deep neural networks for scalable, memory-efficient neural network design
    Minsoo Rhu, Natalia Gimelshein, Jason Clemons, et al. MICRO-49 2016. [Paper]

2.3 Data Organization

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  1. Survey of Hallucination in Natural Language Generation
    Ziwei Ji, Nayeon Lee, Rita Frieske, et al. ACM Computing Surveys (2022). [Paper]
  2. Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks
    Patrick Lewis, Ethan Perez, Aleksandra Piktus, et al. NeurIPS 2020. [Paper]

Vector-Based Organization

  1. STELLA: A large-scale Chinese vector database supporting efficient vector search and semantic retrieval applications. [Source]
  2. Milvus: An open-source vector database focused on large-scale, high-performance similarity search and analysis. [Source]
  3. Weaviate: Weaviate offers a cloud-native vector search engine supporting intelligent search and knowledge graph construction for multimodal data. [Source]
  4. LanceDB: An efficient vector database designed for large-scale machine learning and recommendation systems. [Source]
  5. Mix-of-Granularity: Optimize the Chunking Granularity for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
    Zijie Zhong, Hanwen Liu, Xiaoya Cui, et al. COLING 2025. [Paper]
  6. Dense X Retrieval: What Retrieval Granularity Should We Use?
    Tong Chen, Hongwei Wang, Sihao Chen, et al. EMNLP 2024. [Paper]
  7. Scalable and Domain-General Abstractive Proposition Segmentation
    Mohammad Javad Hosseini, Yang Gao, Tim Baumgärtner, et al. Findings of EMNLP 2024. [Paper]
  8. A Hierarchical Context Augmentation Method to Improve Retrieval-Augmented LLMs on Scientific Papers
    Tian-Yi Che, Xian-Ling Mao, Tian Lan, et al. KDD 2024. [Paper]
  9. M3-Embedding: Multi-Linguality, Multi-Functionality, Multi-Granularity Text Embeddings Through Self-Knowledge Distillation
    Jianlyu Chen, Shitao Xiao, Peitian Zhang, et al. Findings of ACL 2024. [Paper]
  10. Thread: A Logic-Based Data Organization Paradigm for How-To Question Answering with Retrieval Augmented Generation
    Kaikai An, Fangkai Yang, Liqun Li, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  11. GleanVec: Accelerating Vector Search with Minimalist Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction
    Mariano Tepper, Ishwar Singh Bhati, Cecilia Aguerrebere, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  12. The Faiss Library
    Matthijs Douze, Alexandr Guzhva, Chengqi Deng, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  13. Similarity Search in the Blink of an Eye with Compressed Indices
    Cecilia Aguerrebere, Ishwar Singh Bhati, Mark Hildebrand, et al. VLDB Endowment 2023. [Paper]
  14. LeanVec: Searching Vectors Faster by Making Them Fit
    Mariano Tepper, Ishwar Singh Bhati, Cecilia Aguerrebere, et al. arXiv 2023. [Paper]
  15. Towards General Text Embeddings with Multi-stage Contrastive Learning
    Zehan Li, Xin Zhang, Yanzhao Zhang, et al. arXiv 2023. [Paper]

Graph-Based Organization

  1. ArangoDB: A multi-model database that supports graph, document, and key-value data, suitable for handling complex relational queries. [Source]
  2. MiniRAG: Towards Extremely Simple Retrieval-Augmented Generation
    Tianyu Fan, Jingyuan Wang, Xubin Ren, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  3. From Local to Global: A Graph RAG Approach to Query-Focused Summarization
    Darren Edge, Ha Trinh, Newman Cheng, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  4. LightRAG: Simple and Fast Retrieval-Augmented Generation
    Zirui Guo, Lianghao Xia, Yanhua Yu, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  5. Graph Databases Assessment: JanusGraph, Neo4j, and TigerGraph
    Jéssica Monteiro, et al. Perspectives and Trends in Education and Technology 2023. [Paper]
  6. Empirical Evaluation of a Cloud-Based Graph Database: the Case of Neptune
    Ghislain Auguste Atemezing. KGSWC 2021. [Paper]

2.4 Data Movement

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Caching Data

  1. CacheLib: An open-source, high-performance embedded caching library developed by Meta to accelerate data access and increase system throughput. [Source]
  2. Tectonic-Shift: A Composite Storage Fabric for Large-Scale ML Training
    Mark Zhao, Satadru Pan, Niket Agarwal, et al. USENIX ATC 2023. [Paper]
  3. Fluid: Dataset Abstraction and Elastic Acceleration for Cloud-native Deep Learning Training Jobs
    Rong Gu, Kai Zhang, Zhihao Xu, et al. ICDE 2022. [Paper]
  4. Quiver: An Informed Storage Cache for Deep Learning
    Abhishek Kumar, Muthian Sivathanu. USENIX FAST 2020. [Paper]

Data/Operator Offloading

  1. cedar: Optimized and Unified Machine Learning Input Data Pipelines
    Mark Zhao, et al. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Volume 18, Issue 2, 2025. [Paper]
  2. Pecan: cost-efficient ML data preprocessing with automatic transformation ordering and hybrid placement
    Dan Graur, Oto Mraz, Muyu Li, et al. USENIX ATC 2024. [Paper]
  3. tf.data service: A Case for Disaggregating ML Input Data Processing
    Andrew Audibert, Yang Chen, Dan Graur, et al. SoCC 2023. [Paper]
  4. Cachew: Machine Learning Input Data Processing as a Service
    Dan Graur, Damien Aymon, Dan Kluser, et al. USENIX ATC 2022. [Paper]
  5. Borg: the next generation
    Muhammad Tirmazi, Adam Barker, Nan Deng, et al. EuroSys 2020. [Paper]

Overlapping of storage and computing

  1. Optimizing RLHF Training for Large Language Models with Stage Fusion
    Yinmin Zhong, Zili Zhang, Bingyang Wu, et al. NSDI 2025. [Paper]
  2. SiloD: A Co-design of Caching and Scheduling for Deep Learning Clusters
    Hanyu Zhao, Zhenhua Han, Zhi Yang, et al. EuroSys 2023. [Paper]
  3. Optimization by Simulated Annealing
    S. Kirkpatrick, C. D. Gelatt, Jr., M. P. Vecchi. Science, 220(4598):671–680, 1983. [Paper]

2.5 Data Fault Tolerance

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Checkpoints

  1. PaddleNLP: PaddleNLP supports checkpoint saving and resuming during training, enabling fault tolerance and recovery for long-running training tasks. [Source]
  2. MegaScale: Scaling Large Language Model Training to More Than 10,000 GPUs
    Ziheng Jiang, Haibin Lin, Yinmin Zhong, et al. USENIX NSDI 2024. [Paper]
  3. ByteCheckpoint: A Unified Checkpointing System for Large Foundation Model Development
    Borui Wan, Mingji Han, Yiyao Sheng, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  4. GEMINI: Fast Failure Recovery in Distributed Training with In-Memory Checkpoints
    Zhuang Wang, Zhen Jia, Shuai Zheng, et al. SOSP 2023. [Paper]
  5. CheckFreq: Frequent, Fine-Grained DNN Checkpointing
    Jayashree Mohan, Amar Phanishayee, Vijay Chidambaram. USENIX FAST 2021. [Paper]

Redundant Computations

  1. ReCycle: Resilient Training of Large DNNs using Pipeline Adaptation
    Swapnil Gandhi, Mark Zhao, Athinagoras Skiadopoulos, et al. SOSP 2024. [Paper]
  2. Bamboo: Making Preemptible Instances Resilient for Affordable Training of Large DNNs
    John Thorpe, Pengzhan Zhao, Jonathan Eyolfson, et al. NSDI 2023 . [Paper]
  3. Oobleck: Resilient Distributed Training of Large Models Using Pipeline Templates
    Insu Jang, Zhenning Yang, Zhen Zhang, et al. SOSP 2023. [Paper]

2.6 KV Cache

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Cache Space Management

  1. Efficient Memory Management for Large Language Model Serving with PagedAttention
    Woosuk Kwon, Zhuohan Li, Siyuan Zhuang, et al. SOSP 2023. [Paper]
  2. VTensor: Using Virtual Tensors to Build a Layout-oblivious AI Programming Framework
    Feng Yu, Jiacheng Zhao, Huimin Cui, et al. PACT 2020. [Paper]

KV Placement

  1. Cost-Efficient Large Language Model Serving for Multi-turn Conversations with CachedAttention
    Bin Gao, Zhuomin He, Puru Sharma, et al. USENIX ATC 2024. [Paper]
  2. RAGCache: Efficient Knowledge Caching for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
    Chao Jin, Zili Zhang, Xuanlin Jiang, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]

KV Shrinking

  1. Adaptive KV-Cache Compression without Manually Setting Budget
    Chenxia Tang, Jianchun Liu, Hongli Xu, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  2. Fast State Restoration in LLM Serving with HCache
    Shiwei Gao, Youmin Chen, Jiwu Shu. EuroSys 2025. [Paper]
  3. CacheGen: KV Cache Compression and Streaming for Fast Large Language Model Serving
    Yuhan Liu, Hanchen Li, Yihua Cheng, et al. SIGCOMM 2024. [Paper]
  4. MiniCache: KV Cache Compression in Depth Dimension for Large Language Models
    Akide Liu, Jing Liu, Zizheng Pan, et al. NeurIPS 2024. [Paper]
  5. Animating rotation with quaternion curves
    Ken Shoemake. ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics, Volume 19, Issue 3. 1985. [Paper]

KV Indexing

  1. ChunkAttention: Efficient Self-Attention with Prefix-Aware KV Cache and Two-Phase Partition
    Lu Ye, Ze Tao, Yong Huang, et al. ACL 2024. [Paper]
  2. BatchLLM: Optimizing Large Batched LLM Inference with Global Prefix Sharing and Throughput-oriented Token Batching
    Zhen Zheng, Xin Ji, Taosong Fang, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]

3 Data Serving for LLM

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3.1 Data Shuffling

Data Shuffling for Training

  1. Velocitune: A Velocity-based Dynamic Domain Reweighting Method for Continual Pre-training
    Zheheng Luo, Xin Zhang, Xiao Liu, et al. ACL 2025. [Paper]
  2. Mixtera: A Data Plane for Foundation Model Training
    Maximilian Böther, Xiaozhe Yao, Tolga Kerimoglu, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  3. How Abilities in Large Language Models are Affected by Supervised Fine-tuning Data Composition
    Guanting Dong, Hongyi Yuan, Keming Lu, et al. ACL 2024. [Paper]
  4. Mixture-of-Skills: Learning to Optimize Data Usage for Fine-Tuning Large Language Models
    Minghao Wu, Thuy-Trang Vu, Lizhen Qu, et al. EMNLP 2024. [Paper]
  5. Strategic Data Ordering: Enhancing Large Language Model Performance through Curriculum Learning
    Jisu Kim, Juhwan Lee. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  6. Data Pruning via Moving-one-Sample-out
    Haoru Tan, Sitong Wu, Fei Du, et al. NeurIPS 2023. [Paper]
  7. NLU on Data Diets: Dynamic Data Subset Selection for NLP Classification Tasks
    Jean-michel Attendu, Jean-philippe Corbeil. SustaiNLP @ ACL 2023. [Paper]
  8. Efficient Online Data Mixing For Language Model Pre-Training
    Alon Albalak, Liangming Pan, Colin Raffel, et al. arXiv 2023. [Paper]
  9. BERT on a Data Diet: Finding Important Examples by Gradient-Based Pruning
    Mohsen Fayyaz, Ehsan Aghazadeh, Ali Modarressi, et al. ENLSP @ NeurIPS2022. [Paper]
  10. Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models
    Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish, Tom Henighan, et al. arXiv 2020. [Paper]
  11. Why there are complementary learning systems in the hippocampus and neocortex: insights from the successes and failures of connectionist models of learning and memory
    James L. McClelland, Bruce L. McNaughton, Randall C. O’Reilly. Psychological Review 1995. [Paper]
  12. Catastrophic Interference in Connectionist Networks: The Sequential Learning Problem
    M. McCloskey, N. J. Cohen. Psychology of Learning and Motivation 1989. [Paper]

Data Selection for RAG

  1. Cohere rerank: Cohere's rerank model reorders initial retrieval results to improve relevance to the query, making it a key component for building high-quality RAG systems. [Source]
  2. ASRank: Zero-Shot Re-Ranking with Answer Scent for Document Retrieval
    Abdelrahman Abdallah, Jamshid Mozafari, Bhawna Piryani, et al. NAACL 2025. [Paper]
  3. MAIN-RAG: Multi-Agent Filtering Retrieval-Augmented Generation
    Chia-Yuan Chang, Zhimeng Jiang, Vineeth Rakesh, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  4. ARAGOG: Advanced RAG Output Grading
    Matouš Eibich, Shivay Nagpal, Alexander Fred-Ojala. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  5. Large Language Model Is Not a Good Few-shot Information Extractor, but a Good Reranker for Hard Samples!
    Yubo Ma, Yixin Cao, YongChing Hong, et al. Findings of EMNLP 2023. [Paper]
  6. Chatlaw: A Multi-Agent Collaborative Legal Assistant with Knowledge Graph Enhanced Mixture-of-Experts Large Language Model
    Jiaxi Cui, Munan Ning, Zongjian Li, et al. arXiv 2023. [Paper]
  7. RankVicuna: Zero-Shot Listwise Document Reranking with Open-Source Large Language Models
    Ronak Pradeep, Sahel Sharifymoghaddam, Jimmy Lin. arXiv 2023. [Paper]

3.2 Data Compression

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RAG Knowledge Compression

  1. Context Embeddings for Efficient Answer Generation in RAG
    David Rau, Shuai Wang, Hervé Déjean, et al. WSDM 2025. [Paper]
  2. xRAG: Extreme Context Compression for Retrieval-augmented Generation with One Token
    Xin Cheng, Xun Wang, Xingxing Zhang, et al. NeurIPS 2024. [Paper]
  3. RECOMP: Improving Retrieval-Augmented LMs with Context Compression and Selective Augmentation
    Fangyuan Xu, Weijia Shi, Eunsol Choi. ICLR 2024. [Paper]
  4. Compressing Long Context for Enhancing RAG with AMR-based Concept Distillation
    Kaize Shi, Xueyao Sun, Qing Li, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  5. Familiarity-Aware Evidence Compression for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
    Dongwon Jung, Qin Liu, Tenghao Huang, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]

Prompt Compression

  1. LongLLMLingua: Accelerating and Enhancing LLMs in Long Context Scenarios via Prompt Compression
    Huiqiang Jiang, Qianhui Wu, Xufang Luo, et al. ACL 2024. [Paper]
  2. LLMLingua-2: Data Distillation for Efficient and Faithful Task-Agnostic Prompt Compression
    Zhuoshi Pan, Qianhui Wu, Huiqiang Jiang, et al. Findings of ACL 2024. [Paper]
  3. Learning to Compress Prompts with Gist Tokens
    Jesse Mu, Xiang Lisa Li, Noah Goodman. NeurIPS 2023. [Paper]
  4. LLMLingua: Compressing Prompts for Accelerated Inference of Large Language Models
    Huiqiang Jiang, Qianhui Wu, Chin-Yew Lin, et al. EMNLP 2023. [Paper]
  5. Adapting Language Models to Compress Contexts
    Alexis Chevalier, Alexander Wettig, Anirudh Ajith, et al. EMNLP 2023. [Paper]

3.3 Data Packing

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Short Sequence Insertion

  1. Fewer Truncations Improve Language Modeling
    Hantian Ding, Zijian Wang, Giovanni Paolini, et al. ICML 2024. [Paper]
  2. Bucket Pre-training is All You Need
    Hongtao Liu, Qiyao Peng, Qing Yang, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]

Sequence Combination Optimization

  1. Dataset Decomposition: Faster LLM Training with Variable Sequence Length Curriculum
    Hadi Pouransari, Chun-Liang Li, Jen-Hao Rick Chang, et al. NeurIPS 2024. [Paper]
  2. Efficient Sequence Packing without Cross-contamination: Accelerating Large Language Models without Impacting Performance
    Mario Michael Krell, Matej Kosec, Sergio P. Perez, et al. arXiv 2021. [Paper]

Semantic-Based Packing

  1. Structured Packing in LLM Training Improves Long Context Utilization
    Konrad Staniszewski, Szymon Tworkowski, Sebastian Jaszczur, et al. AAAI 2025. [Paper]
  2. In-context Pretraining: Language Modeling Beyond Document Boundaries
    Weijia Shi, Sewon Min, Maria Lomeli, et al. ICLR 2024. [Paper]

3.4 Data Provenance

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  1. A comprehensive survey on data provenance: : State-of-the-art approaches and their deployments for IoT security enforcement
    Md Morshed Alam, Weichao Wang. Journal of Computer Security, Volume 29, Issue 4. 2021. [Paper]

Embedding Markers

  1. Bileve: Securing Text Provenance in Large Language Models Against Spoofing with Bi-level Signature
    Tong Zhou, Xuandong Zhao, Xiaolin Xu, et al. NeurIPS 2024. [Paper]
  2. Undetectable Watermarks for Language Models
    Miranda Christ, et al. in Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference on Learning Theory (COLT 2024). [Paper]
  3. An Unforgeable Publicly Verifiable Watermark for Large Language Models
    Aiwei Liu, Leyi Pan, Xuming Hu, et al. ICLR 2024. [Paper]
  4. A Watermark for Large Language Models
    John Kirchenbauer, Jonas Geiping, Yuxin Wen, et al. ICML 2023. [Paper]
  5. Publicly-Detectable Watermarking for Language Models
    Jaiden Fairoze, Sanjam Garg, Somesh Jha, et al. arXiv 2023. [Paper]

Statistical Provenance

  1. A Watermark for Large Language Models [Paper]

4 LLM for Data Management

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4.1 LLM for Data Manipulation

4.1.1 LLM for Data Cleaning

Data Standardization
  1. Exploring the Feasibility of Automated Data Standardization using Large Language Models for Seamless Positioning

    Lee, Max JL, et al. 2024 14th International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN). IEEE, 2024. [Paper]

  2. CleanAgent: Automating Data Standardization with LLM-based Agents
    Danrui Qi, Jiannan Wang. arXiv 2024. [Paper]

  3. AutoDCWorkflow: LLM-based Data Cleaning Workflow Auto-Generation and Benchmark
    Lan Li, Liri Fang, Vetle I. Torvik. arXiv 2024. [Paper]

  4. Language Models Enable Simple Systems for Generating Structured Views of Heterogeneous Data Lakes
    Simran Arora, Brandon Yang, Sabri Eyuboglu, et al. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Volume 17, Issue 2, Pages 92 - 105 (2023). [Paper]

  5. LLMs with User-defined Prompts as Generic Data Operators for Reliable Data Processing
    Luyi Ma, et al. 1st IEEE International Workshop on Data Engineering and Modeling for AI (DEMAI), IEEE BigData 2023. [Paper]

  6. Large language models as data preprocessors.

    Zhang, Haochen, et al. arXiv 2023. [Paper]

Data Error Processing
  1. ZeroED: Hybrid Zero-Shot Error Detection Through Large Language Model Reasoning
    Wei Ni, Kaihang Zhang, Xiaoye Miao, et al. ICDE 2025. [Paper]

  2. Exploring LLM Agents for Cleaning Tabular Machine Learning Datasets
    Tommaso Bendinelli, Artur Dox, Christian Holz. ICLR 2025 Workshop on Foundation Models in the Wild. [Paper]

  3. Data Cleaning Using Large Language Models
    Shuo Zhang, Zezhou Huang, Eugene Wu. ICDE Workshops 2025. [Paper]

  4. GIDCL: A Graph-Enhanced Interpretable Data Cleaning Framework with Large Language Models
    Mengyi Yan, et al. Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data, Volume 2, Issue 6, 2024. [Paper]

  5. Multi-News+: Cost-efficient Dataset Cleansing via LLM-based Data Annotation
    Juhwan Choi, Jungmin Yun, Kyohoon Jin, et al. EMNLP 2024. [Paper]

  6. Anomaly Detection of Tabular Data Using LLMs
    Aodong Li, Yunhan Zhao, Chen Qiu, et al. Anomaly Detection with Foundation Models Workshop (ICML 2024). [Paper]

  7. LLMClean: Context-Aware Tabular Data Cleaning via LLM-Generated OFDs
    Fabian Biester, Mohamed Abdelaal, Daniel Del Gaudio. arXiv 2024. [Paper]

  8. Cleaning Semi-Structured Errors in Open Data Using Large Language Models

    M. Mondal, J. Audiffren, L. Dolamic, et al, 2024 11th IEEE Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS), 2024. [Paper]

  9. IterClean: An Iterative Data Cleaning Framework with Large Language Models
    Wei Ni, et al. Proceedings of the ACM Turing Award Celebration Conference - China 2024. [Paper]

Data Imputation
  1. On LLM-Enhanced Mixed-Type Data Imputation with High-Order Message Passing
    Jianwei Wang, Kai Wang, Ying Zhang, et al. Proc. VLDB Endow., Vol. 18, No. 10, pp. 3421-3434 (2025). [Paper]

  2. A Context-Aware Approach for Enhancing Data Imputation with Pre-trained Language Models
    Ahatsham Hayat, Mohammad R. Hasan. COLING 2025, pp. 5668-5685 (2025). [Paper]

  3. Does Prompt Design Impact Quality of Data Imputation by LLMs?

    Srinivasan, Shreenidhi, and Lydia Manikonda. arXiv 2025. [Paper]

  4. RetClean: Retrieval-Based Data Cleaning Using LLMs and Data Lakes
    Zan Ahmad Naeem, et al. VLDB Endowment 2024. [Paper]

  5. Data Augmentation using LLMs: Data Perspectives, Learning Paradigms and Challenges
    Bosheng Ding, Chengwei Qin, Ruochen Zhao, et al. ACL Findings 2024, pp. 1679-1705 (2024). [Paper]

4.1.2 LLM for Data Integration

Entity Matching
  1. A Deep Dive Into Cross-Dataset Entity Matching with Large and Small Language Models

    Zhang, Zeyu, et al. International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT) 2025. [Paper]

  2. Large Language Models for Data Discovery and Integration: Challenges and Opportunities

    Freire, Juliana, et al. IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 49(1): 3-31 (2025). [Paper]

  3. Entity matching using large language models
    Ralph Peeters, Christian Bizer. EDBT 2025. [Paper]

  4. Match, Compare, or Select? An Investigation of Large Language Models for Entity Matching
    Tianshu Wang, Hongyu Lin, Xiaoyang Chen, et al. COLING 2025. [Paper]

  5. Cost-Effective In-Context Learning for Entity Resolution: A Design Space Exploration
    Meihao Fan, Xiaoyue Han, Ju Fan, et al. ICDE 2024. [Paper]

  6. KcMF: A Knowledge-compliant Framework for Schema and Entity Matching with Fine-tuning-free LLMs
    Yongqin Xu, Huan Li, Ke Chen, Lidan Shou. arXiv 2024. [Paper]

  7. Jellyfish: A Large Language Model for Data Preprocessing
    Haochen Zhang, Yuyang Dong, Chuan Xiao, et al. EMNLP 2024. [Paper]

  8. Fine-tuning Large Language Models for Entity Matching

    Steiner, Aaron, Ralph Peeters, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]

Schema Matching
  1. Towards Scalable Schema Mapping using Large Language Models
    Christopher Buss, Mahdis Safari, Arash Termehchy, David Maier, Stefan Lee. MIDAS ’25 Workshop, pp. 12-15 (2025). [Paper]
  2. Interactive Data Harmonization with LLM Agents: Opportunities and Challenges
    Aécio Santos, Eduardo H. M. Pena, Roque Lopez, Juliana Freire. NOVAS '25, Berlin, Germany (2025). [Paper]
  3. SCHEMORA: Schema Matching via Multi-stage Recommendation and Metadata Enrichment using Off-the-Shelf LLMs
    Osman Erman Gungor, Derak Paulsen, William Kang. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  4. Knowledge Graph-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Schema Matching
    Chuangtao Ma, Sriom Chakrabarti, Arijit Khan, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  5. Schema Matching with Large Language Models: an Experimental Study
    Marcel Parciak, Brecht Vandevoort, Frank Neven, et al. TaDA 2024 Workshop, collocated with VLDB 2024. [Paper]
  6. Magneto: Combining Small and Large Language Models for Schema Matching
    Yurong Liu, Eduardo Pena, Aecio Santos, et al. VLDB Endowment 2024. [Paper]
  7. Agent-OM: Leveraging LLM Agents for Ontology Matching Zhangcheng Qiang, et al. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Volume 18, Issue 3, 2024. [Paper]
  8. Matchmaker: Self-Improving Large Language Model Programs for Schema Matching
    Nabeel Seedat, Mihaela van der Schaar. NeurIPS 2024 (GenAI for Health & Table Representation Learning Workshops). [Paper]
  9. TableGPT2: A Large Multimodal Model with Tabular Data Integration
    Aofeng Su, Aowen Wang, Chao Ye, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]

4.1.3 LLM for Data Discovery

  1. ArcheType: A Novel Framework for Open-Source Column Type Annotation using Large Language Models
    Benjamin Feuer, Yurong Liu, Chinmay Hegde, et al. VLDB 2024. [Paper]
Data Profiling
  1. Pneuma: Leveraging LLMs for Tabular Data Representation and Retrieval in an End-to-End System
    Muhammad Imam Luthfi Balaka, David Alexander, Qiming Wang, et al. SIGMOD 2025. [Paper]

  2. Flexible Metadata Harvesting for Ecology Using Large Language Models
    Zehao Lu, Thijs L van der Plas, Parinaz Rashidi, et al. EcoDL 2025 Workshop. [Paper]

  3. AutoDDG: Automated Dataset Description Generation using Large Language Models
    Haoxiang Zhang, Yurong Liu, Wei-Lun (Allen) Hung, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]

  4. LEDD: Large Language Model-Empowered Data Discovery in Data Lakes
    Qi An, Chihua Ying, Yuqing Zhu, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]

  5. LLM-Aided Customizable Profiling of Code Data Based On Programming Language Concepts

    Thorat, Pankaj, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]

  6. Cocoon: Semantic Table Profiling Using Large Language Models

    Huang, Zezhou, et al. Proceedings of the 2024 Workshop on Human-In-the-Loop Data Analytics. 2024. [Paper]

Data Annotation
  1. Birdie: Natural Language-Driven Table Discovery Using Differentiable Search Index
    Yuxiang Guo, Zhonghao Hu, Yuren Mao, et al. VLDB 2025. [Paper]

  2. The Promises and Pitfalls of LLM Annotations in Dataset Labeling: a Case Study on Media Bias Detection
    Tomáš Horych, Christoph Mandl, Terry Ruas, et al. NAACL 2025 Findings, pp. 1370-1386 (2025). [Paper]

  3. Mind the Data Gap: Bridging LLMs to Enterprise Data Integration
    Moe Kayali, Fabian Wenz, Nesime Tatbul, et al. CIDR 2025. [Paper]

  4. Open-Source LLMs for Text Annotation: A Practical Guide for Model Setting and Fine-Tuning

    Alizadeh, Meysam, et al. Journal of Computational Social Science 8.1 (2025): 1-25. [Paper]

  5. Evaluating Knowledge Generation and Self-Refinement Strategies for LLM-based Column Type Annotation
    Keti Korini, Christian Bizer. arXiv 2025. [Paper]

  6. LLMs as Data Annotators: How Close Are We to Human Performance
    Haq, Muhammad Uzair Ul, Davide Rigoni, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]

  7. Columbo: Expanding Abbreviated Column Names for Tabular Data Using Large Language Models
    Ting Cai, Stephen Sheen, AnHai Doan. arXiv 2025. [Paper]

  8. An LLM Agent-Based Complex Semantic Table Annotation Approach
    Yilin Geng, Shujing Wang, Chuan Wang, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]

  9. Prompt Candidates, then Distill: A Teacher-Student Framework for LLM-driven Data Annotation
    Xia, Mingxuan, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]

  10. Evaluating how LLM annotations represent diverse views on contentious topics
    Brown, Megan A., et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]

  11. CHORUS: Foundation Models for Unified Data Discovery and Exploration
    Moe Kayali, et al. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Volume 17, Issue 8, 2024. [Paper]

  12. RACOON: An LLM-based Framework for Retrieval-Augmented Column Type Annotation with a Knowledge Graph
    Lindsey Linxi Wei, Guorui Xiao, Magdalena Balazinska. arXiv 2024. [Paper]

  13. AutoLabel: Automated Textual Data Annotation Method Based on Active Learning and Large Language Model
    Ming, Xuran, et al. International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management. 2024. [Paper]

  14. Large Language Models as Annotators: Enhancing Generalization of NLP Models at Minimal Cost

    Bansal, Parikshit, and Amit Sharma. arXiv 2023. [Paper]

4.2 LLM for Data Analysis

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4.2.1 LLM for Structured Data Analysis

4.2.1.1 Relational Data Analysis
LLM for Natural Language Interfaces
  1. RubikSQL: Lifelong Learning Agentic Knowledge Base as an Industrial NL2SQL System
    Zui Chen, Han Li, Xinhao Zhang, et al. submitted to VLDB 2026 (PVLDB Vol. 19). [Paper]
  2. Cracking SQL Barriers: An LLM-based Dialect Translation System
    Wei Zhou, Yuyang Gao, Xuanhe Zhou, Guoliang Li. SIGMOD 2025. [Paper]
  3. OpenSearch-SQL: Enhancing Text-to-SQL with Dynamic Few-shot and Consistency Alignment
    Xiangjin Xie, Guangwei Xu, Lingyan Zhao, Ruijie Guo. Proc. ACM Manag. Data, Vol. 3, No. 3, Article 194, pp. 1-24 (2025). [Paper]
  4. CrackSQL: A Hybrid SQL Dialect Translation System Powered by Large Language Models
    Wei Zhou, Yuyang Gao, Xuanhe Zhou, Guoliang Li. arXiv 2025 (extended from SIGMOD 2025 demo). [Paper]
  5. Data Interpreter: An LLM Agent for Data Science
    Sirui Hong, Yizhang Lin, Bang Liu, et al. ACL 2025 Findings, pp. 19796-19821 (2025). [Paper]
  6. Reasoning-SQL: Reinforcement Learning with SQL-Tailored Partial Rewards for Reasoning-Enhanced Text-to-SQL
    Mohammadreza Pourreza, Shayan Talaei, Ruoxi Sun, et al. COLM 2025. [Paper]
  7. An advanced AI driven database system
    M. Tedeschi, S. Rizwan, C. Shringi, et al. EDULEARN25 Conference Proceedings. 2025. [Paper]
  8. Text to Query Plans for Question Answering on Large Tables
    Yipeng Zhang, Chen Wang, Yuzhe Zhang, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  9. Automatic Metadata Extraction for Text-to-SQL
    Vladislav Shkapenyuk, Divesh Srivastava, Theodore Johnson, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  10. CSC-SQL: Corrective Self-Consistency in Text-to-SQL via Reinforcement Learning
    Lei Sheng, Shuai-Shuai Xu. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  11. OmniSQL: Synthesizing High-quality Text-to-SQL Data at Scale
    Haoyang Li, Shang Wu, Xiaokang Zhang, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  12. Cheaper, Better, Faster, Stronger: Robust Text-to-SQL without Chain-of-Thought or Fine-Tuning
    Yusuf Denizay Dönder, Derek Hommel, Andrea W Wen-Yi, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  13. A Preview of XiYan-SQL: A Multi-Generator Ensemble Framework for Text-to-SQL
    Yingqi Gao, Yifu Liu, Xiaoxia Li, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  14. FinSQL: Model-Agnostic LLMs-based Text-to-SQL Framework for Financial Analysis
    Chao Zhang, Yuren Mao, Yijiang Fan, et al. SIGMOD 2024. [Paper]
  15. CodeS: Towards Building Open-source Language Models for Text-to-SQL
    Haoyang Li, et al. Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data, Volume 2, Issue 3, 2024. [Paper]
  16. The Dawn of Natural Language to SQL: Are We Fully Ready?
    Boyan Li, Yuyu Luo, Chengliang Chai, Guoliang Li, Nan Tang. VLDB 2024. [Paper]
  17. Contextualized Data-Wrangling Code Generation in Computational Notebooks
    Junjie Huang, Daya Guo, Chenglong Wang, et al. ASE 2024. [Paper]
  18. PET-SQL: A Prompt-Enhanced Two-Round Refinement of Text-to-SQL with Cross-consistency
    Zhishuai Li, Xiang Wang, Jingjing Zhao, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  19. CHESS: Contextual Harnessing for Efficient SQL Synthesis
    Shayan Talaei, Mohammadreza Pourreza, Yu-Chen Chang, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  20. DIN-SQL: Decomposed In-Context Learning of Text-to-SQL with Self-Correction
    Mohammadreza Pourreza, Davood Rafiei. NeurIPS 2023. [Paper]
  21. Natural Language to Code Generation in Interactive Data Science Notebooks
    Pengcheng Yin, Wen-Ding Li, Kefan Xiao, et al. ACL 2023. [Paper]
  22. PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways
    Aakanksha Chowdhery, Sharan Narang, Jacob Devlin, et al. JMLR 2023. [Paper]
LLM for Semantic Analysis
  1. TableMaster: A Recipe to Advance Table Understanding with Language Models
    Lang Cao. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  2. RoT: Enhancing Table Reasoning with Iterative Row-Wise Traversals
    Xuanliang Zhang, Dingzirui Wang, Keyan Xu, Qingfu Zhu, Wanxiang Che. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  3. PPT: A Process-based Preference Learning Framework for Self Improving Table Question Answering Models
    Wei Zhou, Mohsen Mesgar, Heike Adel, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  4. TAT-LLM: A Specialized Language Model for Discrete Reasoning over Financial Tabular and Textual Data
    Fengbin Zhu, Ziyang Liu, Fuli Feng, et al. ICAIF 2024. [Paper]
  5. CABINET: Content Relevance based Noise Reduction for Table Question Answering
    Sohan Patnaik, Heril Changwal, Milan Aggarwal, et al. ICLR 2024. [Paper]
  6. Multimodal Table Understanding
    Mingyu Zheng, Xinwei Feng, Qingyi Si, et al. ACL 2024. [Paper]
  7. TabPedia: Towards Comprehensive Visual Table Understanding with Concept Synergy
    Weichao Zhao, Hao Feng, Qi Liu, et al. NeurIPS 2024. [Paper]
  8. TaPERA: Enhancing Faithfulness and Interpretability in Long-Form Table QA by Content Planning and Execution-based Reasoning
    Yilun Zhao, Lyuhao Chen, Arman Cohan, Chen Zhao. ACL 2024. [Paper]
  9. ReAcTable: Enhancing ReAct for Table Question Answering
    Yunjia Zhang, et al. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Volume 17, Issue 8, 2024. [Paper]
  10. Chain-of-Table: Evolving Tables in the Reasoning Chain for Table Understanding
    Zilong Wang, Hao Zhang, Chun-Liang Li, et al. ICLR 2024. [Paper]
  11. Table-GPT: Table Fine-tuned GPT for Diverse Table Tasks
    Peng Li, et al. Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data, Volume 2, Issue 3, 2024. [Paper]
  12. TableGPT2: A Large Multimodal Model with Tabular Data Integration [Paper]
  13. S3HQA: A Three-Stage Approach for Multi-hop Text-Table Hybrid Question Answering
    Fangyu Lei, Xiang Li, Yifan Wei, et al. ACL 2023. [Paper]
  14. Judging LLM-as-a-Judge with MT-Bench and Chatbot Arena [Paper]
4.2.1.2 Graph Data Analysis
  1. Blazegraph: A high-performance graph database that supports RDF/SPARQL queries, commonly used in semantic web and knowledge graph analysis. [Source]
  2. GraphDB: A triplestore with ontology reasoning and SPARQL query support, widely used for enterprise knowledge management and semantic search. [Source]
  3. Neo4j: Neo4j is one of the most popular graph databases, based on the property graph model, supporting complex relationship queries and visual analytics. [Github]
  4. A Comparison of Current Graph Database Models
    Renzo Angles. ICDEW 2012. [Paper]
Natural Language To Graph Analysis Query
  1. R3-NL2GQL: A Model Coordination and Knowledge Graph Alignment Approach for NL2GQL
    Yuhang Zhou, Yu He, Siyu Tian, et al. Findings of EMNLP 2024. [Paper]
  2. NAT-NL2GQL: A Novel Multi-Agent Framework for Translating Natural Language to Graph Query Language
    Yuanyuan Liang, Tingyu Xie, Gan Peng, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  3. Graph Learning in the Era of LLMs: A Survey from the Perspective of Data, Models, and Tasks
    Xunkai Li, Zhengyu Wu, Jiayi Wu, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  4. Leveraging Biomolecule and Natural Language through Multi-Modal Learning: A Survey
    Qizhi Pei, Lijun Wu, Kaiyuan Gao, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
LLM-based Semantic Analysis
  1. GraphGPT: Graph Instruction Tuning for Large Language Models
    Jiabin Tang, Yuhao Yang, Wei Wei, et al. SIGIR 2024. [Paper]
  2. Interactive-KBQA: Multi-Turn Interactions for Knowledge Base Question Answering with Large Language Models
    Guanming Xiong, Junwei Bao, Wen Zhao. ACL 2024. [Paper]
  3. FlexKBQA: A Flexible LLM-Powered Framework for Few-Shot Knowledge Base Question Answering
    Zhenyu Li, Sunqi Fan, Yu Gu, et al. AAAI 2024. [Paper]
  4. Language is All a Graph Needs
    Ruosong Ye, Caiqi Zhang, Runhui Wang, et al. EACL 2024. [Paper]
  5. InstructGraph: Boosting Large Language Models via Graph-centric Instruction Tuning and Preference Alignment
    Jianing Wang, Junda Wu, Yupeng Hou, et al. Findings of ACL 2024. [Paper]
  6. Call Me When Necessary: LLMs can Efficiently and Faithfully Reason over Structured Environments
    Sitao Cheng, Ziyuan Zhuang, Yong Xu, et al. Findings of ACL 2024. [Paper]
  7. Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model
    Rafael Rafailov, Archit Sharma, Eric Mitchell, et al. NeurIPS 2023. [Paper]
  8. StructGPT: A General Framework for Large Language Model to Reason over Structured Data
    Jinhao Jiang, Kun Zhou, Zican Dong, et al. EMNLP 2023. [Paper]
  9. UniKGQA: Unified Retrieval and Reasoning for Solving Multi-hop Question Answering Over Knowledge Graph
    Jinhao Jiang, Kun Zhou, Wayne Xin Zhao, et al. ICLR 2023. [Paper]
  10. Subgraph Retrieval Enhanced Model for Multi-hop Knowledge Base Question Answering
    Jing Zhang, Xiaokang Zhang, Jifan Yu, et al. ACL 2022. [Paper]
  11. RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach
    Yinhan Liu, Myle Ott, Naman Goyal, et al. arXiv 2019. [Paper]
  12. Inductive representation learning on large graphs
    William L. Hamilton, Rex Ying, Jure Leskovec. NeurIPS 2017. [Paper]
  13. Semi-Supervised Classification with Graph Convolutional Networks
    Thomas N. Kipf, Max Welling. ICLR 2017. [Paper]

4.2.2 LLM for Semi-Structured Data Analysis

  1. ST-Raptor: LLM-Powered Semi-Structured Table Question Answering
    Zirui Tang, Boyu Niu, Xuanhe Zhou, et al. SIGMOD 2026. (2025). [Paper]
  2. Querying Semi-Structured Data
    Serge Abiteboul. ICDT 1997. [Paper]
4.2.2.1 Markup Language
4.2.2.2 Semi-Structured Tables
  1. MiMoTable: A Multi-scale Spreadsheet Benchmark with Meta Operations for Table Reasoning
    Zheng Li, Yang Du, Mao Zheng, et al. COLING 2025. [Paper]
  2. AOP: Automated and Interactive LLM Pipeline Orchestration for Answering Complex Queries
    Jiayi Wang, Guoliang Li. CIDR 2025 [Paper]
  3. SpreadsheetBench: Towards Challenging Real World Spreadsheet Manipulation
    Zeyao Ma, Bohan Zhang, Jing Zhang, et al. NeurIPS 2024. [Paper]
  4. TempTabQA: Temporal Question Answering for Semi-Structured Tables
    Vivek Gupta, Pranshu Kandoi, Mahek Bhavesh Vora, et al. EMNLP 2023. [Paper]

4.2.3 LLM for Unstructured Data Analysis

4.2.3.1 Documents
  1. AOP: Automated and Interactive LLM Pipeline Orchestration for Answering Complex Queries [Paper]
  2. Palimpzest: Optimizing AI-Powered Analytics with Declarative Query Processing
    Chunwei Liu, Matthew Russo, Michael Cafarella, et al. CIDR 2025 [Paper]
  3. Towards Accurate and Efficient Document Analytics with Large Language Models
    Y. Lin, M. Hulsebos, R. Ma, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  4. DocFormerv2: Local Features for Document Understanding
    Srikar Appalaraju, Peng Tang, Qi Dong, et al. AAAI 2024. [Paper]
  5. mPLUG-DocOwl 1.5: Unified Structure Learning for OCR-free Document Understanding
    Anwen Hu, Haiyang Xu, Jiabo Ye, et al. Findings of EMNLP 2024. [Paper]
  6. DocPedia: Unleashing the Power of Large Multimodal Model in the Frequency Domain for Versatile Document Understanding
    Hao Feng, Qi Liu, Hao Liu, et al. SCIS 2024. [Paper]
  7. Focus Anywhere for Fine-grained Multi-page Document Understanding [Paper]
  8. General OCR Theory: Towards OCR-2.0 via a Unified End-to-end Model [Paper]
  9. DUBLIN: Visual Document Understanding By Language-Image Network
    Kriti Aggarwal, Aditi Khandelwal, Kumar Tanmay, et al. EMNLP Industry Track 2023. [Paper]
  10. Pix2Struct: Screenshot Parsing as Pretraining for Visual Language Understanding
    Kenton Lee, Mandar Joshi, Iulia Turc, et al. ICML 2023. [Paper]
  11. Unifying Vision, Text, and Layout for Universal Document Processing
    Zineng Tang, Ziyi Yang, Guoxin Wang, et al. CVPR 2023. [Paper]
  12. Exploring the limits of transfer learning with a unified text-to-text transformer [Paper]
  13. An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale
    Alexey Dosovitskiy, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, et al. ICLR 2021. [Paper]
  14. The JPEG Still Picture Compression Standard
    Gregory K. Wallace. Communications of the ACM 1991. [Paper]
4.2.3.2 Program Language Analysis
LLM as Program Vulnerability Detection Tools
  1. Pre-training by Predicting Program Dependencies for Vulnerability Analysis Tasks
    Zhongxin Liu, Zhijie Tang, Junwei Zhang, et al. ICSE 2024. [Paper]
  2. Large Language Model for Vulnerability Detection: Emerging Results and Future Directions
    Xin Zhou, Ting Zhang, David Lo. ICSE-NIER 2024. [Paper]
  3. Vulnerability Detection by Learning From Syntax-Based Execution Paths of Code
    Junwei Zhang, Zhongxin Liu, Xing Hu, et al. IEEE TSE 2023. [Paper]
  4. Software Vulnerability Detection with GPT and In-Context Learning
    Zhihong Liu, Qing Liao, Wenchao Gu, et al. DSC 2023. [Paper]
  5. CodeBERT: A Pre-Trained Model for Programming and Natural Languages
    Zhangyin Feng, Daya Guo, Duyu Tang, et al. Findings of EMNLP 2020. [Paper]
  6. The Probabilistic Relevance Framework: BM25 and Beyond
    Stephen Robertson, et al. Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval, Volume 3, Issue 4, 2009. [Paper]
LLM-based Semantic-aware Analysis
  1. Large Language Models are Few-Shot Summarizers: Multi-Intent Comment Generation via In-Context Learning
    Mingyang Geng, Shangwen Wang, Dezun Dong, et al. ICSE 2024. [Paper]
  2. Automatic Semantic Augmentation of Language Model Prompts (for Code Summarization)
    Toufique Ahmed, Kunal Suresh Pai, Premkumar Devanbu, Earl Barr. ICSE 2024. [Paper]
  3. CoCoMIC: Code Completion by Jointly Modeling In-file and Cross-file Context
    Yangruibo Ding, Zijian Wang, Wasi Ahmad, et al. LREC-COLING 2024. [Paper]
  4. Repoformer: Selective Retrieval for Repository-Level Code Completion
    Di Wu, Wasi Uddin Ahmad, Dejiao Zhang, et al. ICML 2024. [Paper]
  5. SCLA: Automated Smart Contract Summarization via LLMs and Semantic Augmentation
    Yingjie Mao, Xiaoqi Li, Wenkai Li, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  6. Code Structure–Guided Transformer for Source Code Summarization
    Shuzheng Gao, et al. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology 2023. [Paper]
  7. RepoFusion: Training Code Models to Understand Your Repository
    Disha Shrivastava, Denis Kocetkov, Harm de Vries, et al. arXiv 2023. [Paper]

4.2 LLM for Data System Optimization

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4.2.1 LLM for Configuration Tuning

  1. ELMo-Tune-V2: LLM-Assisted Full-Cycle Auto-Tuning to Optimize LSM-Based Key-Value Stores
    Viraj Thakkar, Qi Lin, Kenanya Keandra Adriel Prasetyo, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  2. MLETune: Streamlining Database Knob Tuning via Multi-LLMs Experts Guided Deep Reinforcement Learning
    Wenlong Dong, Wei Liu, Rui Xi, et al. ICPADS 2024. [Paper]
Tuning Task-Aware Prompt Engineering
  1. λ-Tune: Harnessing Large Language Models for Automated Database System Tuning
    Victor Giannankouris, Immanuel Trummer. SIGMOD 2025. [Paper]
  2. LLMIdxAdvis: Resource-Efficient Index Advisor Utilizing Large Language Model
    Xinxin Zhao, Haoyang Li, Jing Zhang, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  3. LATuner: An LLM-Enhanced Database Tuning System Based on Adaptive Surrogate Model
    Chongjiong Fan, Zhicheng Pan, Wenwen Sun, et al. ECML PKDD 2024. [Paper]
  4. Is Large Language Model Good at Database Knob Tuning? A Comprehensive Experimental Evaluation
    Yiyan Li, Haoyang Li, Zhao Pu, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
RAG Based Tuning Experience Enrichment
  1. Automatic Database Configuration Debugging using Retrieval-Augmented Language Models
    Sibei Chen, Ju Fan, Bin Wu, et al. Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data, Volume 3, Issue 1, 2025. [Paper]
  2. GPTuner: A Manual-Reading Database Tuning System via GPT-Guided Bayesian Optimization
    Jiale Lao, Yibo Wang, Yufei Li, et al. VLDB 2024. [Paper]
Training Enhanced Tuning Goal Alignment
  1. E2ETune: End-to-End Knob Tuning via Fine-tuned Generative Language Model
    Xinmei Huang, Haoyang Li, Jing Zhang, et al. VLDB 2025. [Paper]
  2. DB-GPT: Large Language Model Meets Database
    Xuanhe Zhou, Zhaoyan Sun, Guoliang Li. Data Science and Engineering 2024. [Paper]
  3. HEBO: Heteroscedastic Evolutionary Bayesian Optimisation
    Alexander I. Cowen-Rivers, Wenlong Lyu, Zhi Wang, et al. NeurIPS 2020. [Paper]

4.2.2 LLM for Query Optimization

Optimization-Aware Prompt Engineering
  1. R-Bot: An LLM-Based Query Rewrite System
    Zhaoyan Sun, Xuanhe Zhou, Guoliang Li, et al. Proc. VLDB Endow., Vol. 18, No. 12, pp. 5031-5044 (2025). [Paper]
  2. E3-Rewrite: Learning to Rewrite SQL for Executability, Equivalence,and Efficiency
    Dongjie Xu, Yue Cui, Weijie Shi, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  3. LLM4Hint: Leveraging Large Language Models for Hint Recommendation in Offline Query Optimization
    Suchen Liu, Jun Gao, Yinjun Han, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  4. QUITE: A Query Rewrite System Beyond Rules with LLM Agents
    Yuyang Song, Hanxu Yan, Jiale Lao, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  5. Can Large Language Models Be Query Optimizer for Relational Databases?
    Jie Tan, Kangfei Zhao, Rui Li, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  6. A Query Optimization Method Utilizing Large Language Models
    Zhiming Yao, Haoyang Li, Jing Zhang, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  7. Query Rewriting via LLMs
    Sriram Dharwada, Himanshu Devrani, Jayant Haritsa, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  8. DB-GPT: Large Language Model Meets Database [Paper]
  9. LLM-R2: A Large Language Model Enhanced Rule-Based Rewrite System for Boosting Query Efficiency
    Zhaodonghui Li, Haitao Yuan, Huiming Wang, et al. VLDB 2024. [Paper]
  10. The Unreasonable Effectiveness of LLMs for Query Optimization
    Peter Akioyamen, Zixuan Yi, Ryan Marcus. ML for Systems Workshop at NeurIPS 2024. [Paper]
  11. Query Rewriting via Large Language Models
    Jie Liu, Barzan Mozafari. arXiv 2024. [Paper]

4.2.3 LLM for Anomaly Diagnosis

Manually Crafted Prompts for Anomaly Diagnosis
  1. DBG-PT: A Large Language Model Assisted Query Performance Regression Debugger
    Victor Giannakouris, Immanuel Trummer. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Volume 17, Issue 12, 2024. [Paper]
RAG Based Diagnosis Experience Enrichment
  1. DBAIOps: A Reasoning LLM-Enhanced Database Operation and Maintenance System using Knowledge Graphs
    Wei Zhou, Peng Sun, Xuanhe Zhou, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  2. Query Performance Explanation through Large Language Model for HTAP Systems
    Haibo Xiu, Li Zhang, Tieying Zhang, et al. ICDE 2025. [Paper]
  3. D-Bot: Database Diagnosis System using Large Language Models
    Xuanhe Zhou, Guoliang Li, Zhaoyan Sun, et al. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Volume 17, Issue 10. 2024. [Paper]
  4. LLM As DBA
    Xuanhe Zhou, Guoliang Li, Zhiyuan Liu. arXiv 2023. [Paper]
Multi-Agent Mechanism for Collaborative Diagnosis
  1. GaussMaster: An LLM-based Database Copilot System
    Wei Zhou, Ji Sun, Xuanhe Zhou, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  2. Panda: Performance Debugging for Databases using LLM Agents
    Vikramank Singh, Kapil Eknath Vaidya, Vinayshekhar Bannihatti Kumar, et al. CIDR 2024. [Paper]
  3. D-Bot: Database Diagnosis System using Large Language Models [Paper]
  4. LLM As DBA [Paper]
Localized LLM Enhancement via Specialized FineTuning
  1. LLM for Data Management
    Guoliang Li, Xuanhe Zhou, Xinyang Zhao. PVLDB 17(12). 2024. [Paper]
  2. LLM-Enhanced Data Management
    Xuanhe Zhou, Xinyang Zhao, Guoliang Li. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  3. D-Bot: Database Diagnosis System using Large Language Models [Paper]

5 LLM as Data Analyst

5.1 LLM for Structured Data Analysis

5.1.1 Relational Data

  1. Probabilistic classification and clustering in relational data
    Ben Taskar, Eran Segal, Daphne Koller. IJCAI'01. 2021. [Paper]
  2. Multilinear tensor regression for longitudinal relational data
    Peter D. Hoff. Ann. Appl. Stat. 9 (3) 1169 - 1193, September 2015. [Paper]
  3. Outlier detection in relational data: A case study in geographical information systems
    Joris Maervoet, Celine Vens, Greet Vanden Berghe, et al. Expert Syst. Appl. 39, 5 (April, 2012). [Paper]
  4. A relational model of data for large shared data banks
    E. F. Codd. Communications of the ACM, Volume 13, Issue 6. 1970. [Paper]
NL2SQL
  1. Cracking SQL Barriers: An LLM-based Dialect Translation System
    Wei Zhou, Yuyang Gao, Xuanhe Zhou, Guoliang Li. Proc. ACM Manag. Data, Vol. 3, No. 3, Article 141, pp. 1-26 (2025). [Paper]
  2. CrackSQL: A Hybrid SQL Dialect Translation System Powered by Large Language Models [Paper]
  3. Natural Language to SQL: State of the Art and Open Problems
    Yuyu Luo, Guoliang Li, Ju Fan, Chengliang Chai, Nan Tang. Proc. VLDB Endow., Vol. 18, No. 12, pp. 5466-5471 (2025). [Paper]
  4. A Survey on Employing Large Language Models for Text-to-SQL Tasks
    Liang Shi, Zhengju Tang, Nan Zhang, et al. ACM Comput. Surv., Vol. 58, No. 2, Article 54, pp. 1-37 (2025). [Paper]
  5. Bridging the Semantic Gap Between Text and Table: A Case Study on NL2SQL
    Lin Long, Xijun Gu, Xinjie Sun, et al. International Conference on Representation Learning 2025 (ICLR 2025). [Paper]
  6. A Survey of Text-to-SQL in the Era of LLMs: Where Are We, and Where Are We Going?
    Xinyu Liu, Shuyu Shen, Boyan Li, et al. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2025. [Paper]
  7. Finsql: Model-agnostic llms-based text-to-sql framework for financial analysis [Paper]
  8. Codes: Towards building open-source language models for text-to-sql [Paper]
  9. Combining Small Language Models and Large Language Models for Zero-Shot NL2SQL
    Ju Fan, Zihui Gu, Songyue Zhang, et al. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Volume 17, Issue 11 (2024). [Paper]
  10. PET-SQL: A Prompt-Enhanced Two-Round Refinement of Text-to-SQL with Cross-consistency [Paper]
  11. CHESS: Contextual Harnessing for Efficient SQL Synthesis [Paper]
  12. DIN-SQL: decomposed in-context learning of text-to-SQL with self-correction [Paper]
  13. OpenSearch-SQL: Enhancing Text-to-SQL with Dynamic Few-shot and Consistency Alignment [Paper]
  14. The Dawn of Natural Language to SQL: Are We Fully Ready? [Paper]
NL2Code
  1. Data Interpreter: An LLM Agent for Data Science [Paper]

  2. Collaboration between Intelligent Agents and Large Language Models: A Novel Approach for Enhancing Code Generation Capability
    Xingyuan Bai, Shaobin Huang, Chi Wei, et al. Expert Systems with Applications, 2025. [Paper]

  3. Contextualized Data-Wrangling Code Generation in Computational Notebooks
    Junjie Huang, Daya Guo, Chenglong Wang, et al. ASE '24 (2024). [Paper]

  4. Natural Language to Code Generation in Interactive Data Science Notebooks
    Pengcheng Yin, Wen-Ding Li, Kefan Xiao, et al. ACL 2023. [Paper]

  5. PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways
    Aakanksha Chowdhery, Sharan Narang, Jacob Devlin, et al. Journal of Machine Learning Research 24 (2023). [Paper]

  6. BART: Denoising Sequence-to-Sequence Pre-training for Natural Language Generation, Translation, and Comprehension
    Mike Lewis, Yinhan Liu, Naman Goyal, et al. ACL 2020 (2020). [Paper]

LLM for Semantic Analysis

Multi-Step QA

  1. Plugging Schema Graph into Multi-Table QA: A Human-Guided Framework for Reducing LLM Reliance
    Xixi Wang, Miguel Costa, Jordanka Kovaceva, et al. Findings of EMNLP 2025 (2025). [Paper]
  2. TAT-LLM: A Specialized Language Model for Discrete Reasoning over Financial Tabular and Textual Data [Paper]
  3. Chain-of-Table: Evolving Tables in the Reasoning Chain for Table Understanding
    Zilong Wang, Hao Zhang, Chun-Liang Li, et al. ICLR 2024 (2024). [Paper]
  4. TaPERA: Enhancing Faithfulness and Interpretability in Long-Form Table QA by Content Planning and Execution-based Reasoning [Paper]
  5. S3HQA: A three-stage approach for multi-hop text-table hybrid question answering [Paper]
  6. Reactable: Enhancing react for table question answering [Paper]

End-to-End QA

  1. MMQA: Evaluating LLMs with Multi-Table Multi-Hop Complex Questions
    Jian Wu, Linyi Yang, Dongyuan Li, et al. ICLR 2025 (2025). [Paper]
  2. Improved Baselines with Visual Instruction Tuning
    Haotian Liu, Chunyuan Li, Yuheng Li, et al. CVPR 2024 (2024). [Paper]
  3. Table-GPT: Table Fine-tuned GPT for Diverse Table Tasks [Paper]
  4. Tablegpt2: A large multimodal model with tabular data integration [Paper]
  5. Cabinet: Content relevance based noise reduction for table question answering [Paper]
  6. Tablemaster: A recipe to advance table understanding with language models [Paper]
  7. Multimodal table understanding [Paper]
  8. Tabpedia: Towards comprehensive visual table understanding with concept synergy [Paper]
  9. Judging llm-as-a-judge with mt-bench and chatbot arena [Paper]
LLM for Time Series Analysis
  1. Towards Cross-Modality Modeling for Time Series Analytics: A Survey in the LLM Era
    Chenxi Liu, et al. IJCAI 2025 Survey Track (2025). [Paper]
  2. Association between forecasting models’ precision and nonlinear patterns of daily river flow time series
    Farhang Rahmani & Mohammad Hadi Fattahi. Modeling Earth Systems and Environment, 2022. [Paper]
  3. HMCKRAutoEncoder: An Interpretable Deep Learning Framework for Time Series Analysis
    Jilong Wang, Rui Li, Renfa Li, et al. IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 2022. [Paper]
  4. The Performance of LSTM and BiLSTM in Forecasting Time Series
    Sima Siami-Namini, Neda Tavakoli, Akbar Siami Namin. IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2019. [Paper]
  5. A Comparison of ARIMA and LSTM in Forecasting Time Series
    Sima Siami-Namini, Neda Tavakoli, Akbar Siami Namin. ICMLA, 2018. [Paper]
  6. Time Series Databases and InfluxDB
    Syeda Noor Zehra Naqvi, Sofia Yfantidou, et al. Université libre de Bruxelles, Advanced Databases, 2017. [Paper]

TS2NL

  1. TimeRAG: Boosting LLM Time Series Forecasting via Retrieval-Augmented Generation
    Silin Yang, Dong Wang, Haoqi Zheng, Ruochun Jin. ICASSP 2025. [Paper]
  2. TimeCAP: Learning to Contextualize, Augment, and Predict Time Series Events with Large Language Model Agents
    Geon Lee, Wenchao Yu, Kijung Shin, et al. AAAI 2025. [Paper]
  3. Explainable Multi-modal Time Series Prediction with LLM-in-the-Loop
    Yushan Jiang, Wenchao Yu, Geon Lee, et al. arXiv:2503.01013 [cs.LG] (2025). [Paper]
  4. From News to Forecast: Integrating Event Analysis in LLM-Based Time Series Forecasting with Reflection
    Xinlei Wang, Maike Feng, Jing Qiu, et al. NeurIPS 2024. [Paper]
  5. Dynamic Dynamic Time Warping
    Karl Bringmann, Nick Fischer, Ivor van der Hoog, et al. SODA 2024. [Paper]
  6. Can Large Language Models be Anomaly Detectors for Time Series?
    Sarah Alnegheimish, Linh Nguyen, Laure Berti-Equille, et al.DSAA 2024. [Paper]
  7. Exploring Large Language Models for Climate Forecasting
    Yang Wang, Hassan A. Karimi. arXiv:2411.13724 [cs.LG] (2024). [Paper]
  8. Temporal Data Meets LLM -- Explainable Financial Time Series Forecasting
    Xinli Yu, Zheng Chen, Yuan Ling, et al. arXiv:2306.11025 [cs.LG] (2023). [Paper]

Alignment

  1. SEED: A Structural Encoder for Embedding-Driven Decoding in Time Series Prediction with LLMs
    Fengze Li, Yue Wang, Yangle Liu, et al. arXiv:2506.20167 [cs.CL] (2025). [Paper]
  2. TimeCMA: Towards LLM-Empowered Multivariate Time Series Forecasting via Cross-Modality Alignment
    Chenxi Liu, Qianxiong Xu, Hao Miao, et al. AAAI 2025. [Paper]
  3. CALF: Aligning LLMs for Time Series Forecasting via Cross-modal Fine-Tuning
    Peiyuan Liu, Hang Guo, Tao Dai, et al. AAAI 2025. [Paper]
  4. LLM4TS: Aligning Pre-Trained LLMs as Data-Efficient Time-Series Forecasters
    Ching Chang, Wei-Yao Wang, Wen-Chih Peng, Tien-Fu Chen. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, Volume 16, Issue 3, Article No. 60, Pages 1 - 20 (2025). [Paper]
  5. Large Language Models are Few-Shot Multivariate Time Series Classifiers
    Yakun Chen, Zihao Li, Chao Yang, et al. Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Volume 39, Issue 5 (2025). [Paper]
  6. Time-LLM: Time Series Forecasting by Reprogramming Large Language Models
    Ming Jin, Shiyu Wang, Lintao Ma, et al. ICLR 2024. [Paper]
  7. S2IP-LLM: Semantic Space Informed Prompt Learning with LLM for Time Series Forecasting
    Zijie Pan, Yushan Jiang, Sahil Garg, et al. ICML 2024. [Paper]

5.1.2 Graph Data Analysis

  1. A Comparison of Current Graph Database Models
    Renzo Angles. IEEE 28th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops, 2012. [Paper]

Natural Language To Graph Analysis Query

  1. Aligning Large Language Models to a Domain-specific Graph Database for NL2GQL
    Yuanyuan Liang, Keren Tan, Tingyu Xie, et al. CIKM '24, 2024. [Paper]
  2. NAT-NL2GQL: A Novel Multi-Agent Framework for Translating Natural Language to Graph Query Language [Paper]
  3. r3-NL2GQL: A model coordination and knowledge graph alignment approach for NL2GQL [Paper]
  4. Graph learning in the era of llms: A survey from the perspective of data, models, and tasks [Paper]
  5. Leveraging biomolecule and natural language through multi-modal learning: A survey [Paper]

LLM-based Semantic Analysis

  • Retrieval-Then-Reasoning
  1. G-Retriever: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Textual Graph Understanding and Question Answering
    Xiaoxin He, Yijun Tian, Yifei Sun, et al. NeurIPS 2024. [Paper]
  2. Subgraph retrieval enhanced model for multi-hop knowledge base question answering [Paper]
  3. Unikgqa: Unified retrieval and reasoning for solving multi-hop question answering over knowledge graph [Paper]
  • Execution-Then-Reasoning
  1. Interactive-kbqa: Multi-turn inter-actions for knowledge base question answering with large language models [Paper]

  2. MCTS-KBQA: Monte Carlo Tree Search for Knowledge Base Question Answering
    Guanming Xiong, Haochen Li, Wen Zhao. arXiv:2502.13428 [cs.CL] (2025). [Paper]

  3. Flexkbqa: A flexible llm-powered framework for few-shot knowledge base question answering [Paper]

Graph Task Based Fine-tuning Methods

  1. InstructGraph: Boosting Large Language Models via Graph-Centric Instruction Tuning and Preference Alignment
    Jianing Wang, Junda Wu, Yupeng Hou, et al. Findings of ACL 2024. [Paper]
  2. GLaM: Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Domain Knowledge Graph Alignment via Neighborhood Partitioning and Generative Subgraph Encoding
    Stefan Dernbach, Khushbu Agarwal, Alejandro Zuniga, et al. AAAI Symposium Series, 3(1), 82-89 (2024). [Paper]
  3. Semi-Supervised Learning With Graph Learning-Convolutional Networks
    Bo Jiang, Ziyan Zhang, Doudou Lin, Jin Tang, Bin Luo. CVPR 2019, pp. 11313-11320. [Paper]
  4. Language is all a graph needs [Paper]
  5. Direct Preference Optimization: Your Language Model is Secretly a Reward Model [Paper]
  6. Graphgpt: Graph instruction tuning for large language models [Paper]
  7. Inductive representation learning on large graphs [Paper]
  • Agent Based Methods
  1. KBQA-o1: Agentic Knowledge Base Question Answering with Monte Carlo Tree Search
    Haoran Luo, Haihong E, Yikai Guo, et al. ICML 2025. [Paper]
  2. Structgpt: A general framework for large language model to reason over structured data [Paper]
  3. Call me when necessary: Llms can efficiently and faithfully reason over structured environments [Paper]

5.1.3 Structured Data Generation for LLM

  1. Spider: A Large-Scale Human-Labeled Dataset for Complex and Cross-Domain Semantic Parsing and Text-to-SQL Task
    Tao Yu, Rui Zhang, Kai Yang, et al. EMNLP 2018. [Paper]
  2. Compositional Semantic Parsing on Semi-Structured Tables
    Panupong Pasupat, Percy Liang. ACL 2015, Pages 1470–1480. [Paper]
Relational Data Generation
  1. ChatTS: Aligning Time Series with LLMs via Synthetic Data for Enhanced Understanding and Reasoning
    Zhe Xie, Zeyan Li, Xiao He, et al. Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2025. [Paper]
  2. Relational Data Generation with Graph Neural Networks and Latent Diffusion Models
    Valter Hudovernik. TRL @ NeurIPS 2024 Poster, 2024. [Paper]
  3. Mixed-Type Tabular Data Synthesis with Score-based Diffusion in Latent Space
    Hengrui Zhang, Jiani Zhang, Balasubramaniam Srinivasan, et al. ICLR 2024. [Paper]
  4. ITF-GAN: Synthetic Time Series Dataset Generation and Manipulation by Interpretable Features
    Hendrik Klopries, Andreas Schwung. Knowledge-Based Systems, Volume 283, Issue C (2024). [Paper]
  5. REaLTabFormer: Generating Realistic Relational and Tabular Data using Transformers
    Aivin V. Solatorio, Olivier Dupriez. arXiv:2302.02041 [cs.LG] (2023). [Paper]
  6. Synthetic Data Generation of Many-to-Many Datasets via Random Graph Generation
    Kai Xu, Georgi Ganev, Emile Joubert, et al. ICLR 2023. [Paper]
  7. SyntaxSQLNet: Syntax Tree Networks for Complex and Cross-Domain Text-to-SQL Task
    Tao Yu, Michihiro Yasunaga, Kai Yang, et al. EMNLP 2018. [Paper]
  8. Codes: Towards building open-source language models for text-to-sql [Paper]
Graph Data Generation
  1. A Temporal Knowledge Graph Generation Dataset Supervised Distantly by Large Language Models
    Jun Zhu, Yan Fu, Junlin Zhou, Duanbing Chen. Scientific Data, 12:734 (2025). [Paper]
  2. A Framework for Large-Scale Synthetic Graph Dataset Generation
    Sajad Darabi, Piotr Bigaj, Dawid Majchrowski, et al. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Volume 36, Issue 8, Pages 14258 - 14268 (2025). [Paper]

5.2 LLM for Semi-Structured Data Analysis

5.2.1 Markup Language

Markup Extraction

  1. Language models enable simple systems for generating structured views of heterogeneous data lakes [Paper]

  2. WebFormer: The Web-page Transformer for Structure Information Extraction
    Qifan Wang, Yi Fang, Anirudh Ravula, et al. WWW '22, 2022. [Paper]

Markup Query

  1. XPath Agent: An Efficient XPath Programming Agent Based on LLM for Web Crawler
    Yu Li, Bryce Wang, Xinyu Luan. arXiv:2502.15688 [cs.IR] (2025). [Paper]

  2. Bridging the Gap: Enabling Natural Language Queries for NoSQL Databases through Text-to-NoSQL Translation
    Jinwei Lu, Yuanfeng Song, Zhiqian Qin, et al. arXiv:2502.11201 [cs.DB] (2025). [Paper]

Markup Understanding

  1. Hierarchical Multimodal Pre-training for Visually Rich Webpage Understanding
    Hongshen Xu, Lu Chen, Zihan Zhao, et al. WSDM '24, 2024. [Paper]
  2. DOM-LM: Learning Generalizable Representations for HTML Documents
    Xiang Deng, Prashant Shiralkar, Colin Lockard, Binxuan Huang, Huan Sun. arXiv:2201.10608 [cs.CL] (2022). [Paper]
  3. MarkupLM: Pre-training of Text and Markup Language for Visually-rich Document Understanding
    Junlong Li, Yiheng Xu, Lei Cui, Furu Wei. ACL 2022. [Paper]

5.2.2 Semi-Structured Table

Table Representation

  1. ST-Raptor: LLM-Powered Semi-Structured Table Question Answering
    Zirui Tang, Boyu Niu, Xuanhe Zhou, et al. arXiv:2508.18190 [cs.AI] (2025). Extension of SIGMOD 2026 paper. [Paper]
  2. Reasoning and Retrieval for Complex Semi-structured Tables via Reinforced Relational Data Transformation
    Haoyu Dong, Yue Hu, Yanan Cao. SIGIR '25, Pages 1382 - 1391 (2025). [Paper]
  3. Can an LLM Find Its Way Around a Spreadsheet?
    Cho-Ting Lee, Andrew Neeser, Shengzhe Xu, et al. ICSE 2025. [Paper]
  4. Auto-Tables: Relationalize Tables without Using Examples
    Peng Li, Yeye He, Cong Yan, et al. SIGMOD Record, Volume 53, Issue 1, Pages 76 - 85 (2024). [Paper]
  5. TUTA: Tree-based Transformers for Generally Structured Table Pre-training
    Zhiruo Wang, Haoyu Dong, Ran Jia, et al. KDD '21, Pages 1780 - 1790 (2021). [Paper]

Table Prompting

  1. SpreadsheetLLM: Encoding Spreadsheets for Large Language Models
    Haoyu Dong, Jianbo Zhao, Yuzhang Tian, et al. arXiv:2407.09025 [cs.AI] (2024). [Paper]

  2. HySem: A Context Length Optimized LLM Pipeline for Unstructured Tabular Extraction
    Narayanan PP, Anantharaman Palacode Narayana Iyer. TRL @ NeurIPS 2024 Poster, 2024. [Paper]

Table Querying

  1. ST-Raptor: LLM-Powered Semi-Structured Table Question Answering [Paper]
  2. SpreadsheetLLM: encoding spreadsheets for large language models [Paper]

5.3 LLM for Unstructured Data Analysis

5.3.1 Chart Analysis

Traditional Approaches

  1. DVQA: Understanding Data Visualizations via Question Answering
    Kushal Kafle, Brian Price, Scott Cohen, Christopher Kanan. CVPR 2018, pp. 5648-5656. [Paper]

Chart Captioning

  1. ChartThinker: A Contextual Chain-of-Thought Approach to Optimized Chart Summarization
    Mengsha Liu, Daoyuan Chen, Yaliang Li, et al. LREC-COLING 2024, Pages 3057–3074 (2024). [Paper]
  2. UniChart: A Universal Vision-Language Pretrained Model for Chart Comprehension and Reasoning
    Ahmed Masry, Parsa Kavehzadeh, Xuan Long Do, Enamul Hoque, Shafiq Joty. EMNLP 2023. [Paper]
  3. FigCaps-HF: A Figure-to-Caption Generative Framework and Benchmark with Human Feedback
    Ashish Singh, Ashutosh Singh, Prateek Agarwal, et al. arXiv:2307.10867 [cs.CL] (2023). [Paper]
  4. Chart-to-Text: Generating Natural Language Descriptions for Charts by Adapting the Transformer Model
    Jason Obeid, Enamul Hoque. INLG 2020, Pages 138–147 (2020). [Paper]
  5. An Architecture for Data-to-Text Systems
    Ehud Baruch Reiter. ENLG 07, 2007. [Paper]
  6. Describing Complex Charts in Natural Language: A Caption Generation System
    Vibhu O. Mittal, Giuseppe Carenini, Johanna D. Moore, Steven Roth. Computational Linguistics, 1998. [Paper]

Chart Question Answering

  1. EvoChart: A Benchmark and a Self-Training Approach Towards Real-World Chart Understanding
    Muye Huang, Han Lai, Xinyu Zhang, et al. AAAI 2025, 39(4), 3680-3688. [Paper]
  2. Charts-of-Thought: Enhancing LLM Visualization Literacy Through Structured Data Extraction
    Amit Kumar Das, Mohammad Tarun, Klaus Mueller. IEEE VIS 2025. [Paper]
  3. ChartMoE: Mixture of Diversely Aligned Expert Connector for Chart Understanding
    Zhengzhuo Xu, Bowen Qu, Yiyan Qi, et al. ICLR 2025. [Paper]
  4. ChartGemma: Visual Instruction-tuning for Chart Reasoning in the Wild
    Ahmed Masry, Megh Thakkar, Aayush Bajaj, et al. COLING 2025, Pages 625–643 (2025). [Paper]
  5. ChartInsights: Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models for Low-Level Chart Question Answering
    Yifan Wu, Lutao Yan, Leixian Shen, et al. EMNLP 2024, Pages 12174–12200 (2024). [Paper]
  6. VizAbility: Enhancing Chart Accessibility with LLM-based Conversational Interaction
    Joshua Gorniak, Yoon Kim, Donglai Wei, et al. UIST '24, Article No. 89, Pages 1 - 19 (2024). [Paper]
  7. ChartLlama: A Multimodal LLM for Chart Understanding and Generation
    Yucheng Han, Chi Zhang, Xin Chen, et al. arXiv:2311.16483 [cs.CV] (2023). [Paper]
  8. ChartBench: A Benchmark for Complex Visual Reasoning in Charts
    Zhengzhuo Xu, Sinan Du, Yiyan Qi, et al. arXiv:2312.15915 [cs.CV] (2023). [Paper]
  9. mPLUG-Owl: Modularization Empowers Large Language Models with Multimodality
    Qinghao Ye, Haiyang Xu, Guohai Xu, et al. arXiv:2304.14178 [cs.CL] (2023). [Paper]

Chart-to-Code

  1. ChartMimic: Evaluating LMM's Cross-Modal Reasoning Capability via Chart-to-Code Generation
    Cheng Yang, Chufan Shi, Yaxin Liu, et al. ICLR 2025. [Paper]
  2. Breaking the SFT Plateau: Multimodal Structured Reinforcement Learning for Chart-to-Code Generation
    Lei Chen, Xuanle Zhao, Zhixiong Zeng, et al. arXiv:2508.13587 [cs.AI] (2025). [Paper]
  3. Text2Chart31: Instruction Tuning for Chart Generation with Automatic Feedback
    Fatemeh Pesaran Zadeh, Juyeon Kim, Jin-Hwa Kim, Gunhee Kim. EMNLP 2024, Pages 11459–11480 (2024). [Paper]

5.3.2 Video Analysis

Temporally-Anchored Approaches
  1. Seq2Time: Sequential Knowledge Transfer for Video LLM Temporal Grounding
    Andong Deng, Zhongpai Gao, Anwesa Choudhuri, et al. CVPR 2025. [Paper]
  2. TempMe: Video Temporal Token Merging for Efficient Text-Video Retrieval
    Leqi Shen, Tianxiang Hao, Tao He, et al. ICLR 2025. [Paper]
  3. Grounded-VideoLLM: Sharpening Fine-grained Temporal Grounding in Video Large Language Models
    Haibo Wang, Zhiyang Xu, Yu Cheng, et al. EMNLP 2025 Findings. [Paper]
  4. Video Token Merging for Long Video Understanding
    Seon-Ho Lee, Jue Wang, Zhikang Zhang, David Fan, Xinyu Li. NeurIPS 2024. [Paper]
  5. TimeMarker: A Versatile Video-LLM for Long and Short Video Understanding with Superior Temporal Localization Ability
    Shimin Chen, Xiaohan Lan, Yitian Yuan, Zequn Jie, Lin Ma. arXiv:2411.18211 [cs.CV] (2024). [Paper]
Instruction-Aware Relative Temporal Localization
  1. From Image to Video, what do we need in multimodal LLMs?
    Suyuan Huang, Haoxin Zhang, Linqing Zhong, et al. arXiv:2404.11865 [cs.CV] (2024). [Paper]

  2. LLMs Meet Long Video: Advancing Long Video Question Answering with An Interactive Visual Adapter in LLMs
    Yunxin Li, Xinyu Chen, Baotain Hu, Min Zhang. arXiv:2402.13546 [cs.CL] (2024). [Paper]

Video Emotional Analysis
  1. Predicting Team Well-Being through Face Video Analysis with AI
    Moritz Müller, Ambre Dupuis, Tobias Zeulner, et al. Applied Sciences, 14(3), 1284 (2024). [Paper]

  2. AI Based Multimodal Emotion and Behavior Analysis of Interviewee
    Aaditya Jadhav, Rushikesh Ghodake, Karthik Muralidharan, G Tarun Varma. IJSREM, May 2023. [Paper]

Object Detection
  1. VideoRefer Suite: Advancing Spatial-Temporal Object Understanding with Video LLM
    Yuqian Yuan, Hang Zhang, Wentong Li, et al. CVPR 2025, pp. 18970-18980 (2025). [Paper]

  2. Video Summarisation with Incident and Context Information using Generative AI
    Ulindu De Silva, Leon Fernando, Kalinga Bandara, Rashmika Nawaratne. IECON 2024 - 50th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 2024. [Paper]

  3. Abnormal Event Detection in Videos using LSTM Convolutional Autoencoder
    Abdelhafid Berroukham, Khalid Housni, Mohammed Lahraichi. ISCV 2024 - International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Computer Vision, 2024. [Paper]

Gesture and Behavior Detection
  1. Utilizing Multimodal Large Language Models for Video Analysis of Posture in Studying Collaborative Learning
    Ridwan Whitehead, Andy Nguyen, Sanna Järvelä. Journal of Learning Analytics, Vol. 12 No. 1 (2025). [Paper]

  2. Artificial Intelligence–Powered 3D Analysis of Video-Based Caregiver-Child Interactions
    Zhenzhen Weng, Laura Bravo-Sánchez, Zeyu Wang, et al. Science Advances, Vol. 11, Issue 8 (2025). [Paper]

Video Data for LLM
  1. VideoITG: Multimodal Video Understanding with Instructed Temporal Grounding
    Shihao Wang, Guo Chen, De-an Huang, et al. arXiv:2507.13353 [cs.CV] (2025). [Paper]
  2. DisCo: Disentangled Control for Realistic Human Dance Generation
    Tan Wang, Linjie Li, Kevin Lin, et al. CVPR 2024, pp. 9326-9336 (2024). [Paper]
  3. Text2Video-Zero: Text-to-Image Diffusion Models are Zero-Shot Video Generators
    Levon Khachatryan, Andranik Movsisyan, Vahram Tadevosyan, et al. ICCV 2023, pp. 15954-15964 (2023). [Paper]
  4. Align Your Latents: High-Resolution Video Synthesis With Latent Diffusion Models
    Andreas Blattmann, Robin Rombach, Huan Ling, et al. CVPR 2023, pp. 22563-22575 (2023). [Paper]
  5. SadTalker: Learning Realistic 3D Motion Coefficients for Stylized Audio-Driven Single Image Talking Face Animation
    Wenxuan Zhang, Xiaodong Cun, Xuan Wang, et al. CVPR 2023, pp. 8652-8661 (2023). [Paper]
  6. DreamTalk: When Emotional Talking Head Generation Meets Diffusion Probabilistic Models
    Yifeng Ma, Shiwei Zhang, Jiayu Wang, et al. arXiv 2023. [Paper]
  7. Imagen Video: High Definition Video Generation with Diffusion Models
    Jonathan Ho, William Chan, Chitwan Saharia, et al. arXiv 2022. [Paper]
  8. Make-A-Video: Text-to-Video Generation without Text-Video Data
    Uriel Singer, Adam Polyak, Thomas Hayes, et al. arXiv 2022. [Paper]
  9. NUWA-Infinity: Autoregressive over Autoregressive Generation for Infinite Visual Synthesis
    Jian Liang, Chenfei Wu, Xiaowei Hu, et al. NeurIPS 2022. [Paper]

5.3.3 Document Analysis

  1. SV-RAG: LoRA-Contextualizing Adaptation of MLLMs for Long Document Understanding
    Jian Chen, Ruiyi Zhang, Yufan Zhou, et al. ICLR 2025. [Paper]
  2. AesthetiQ: Enhancing Graphic Layout Design via Aesthetic-Aware Preference Alignment of Multi-modal Large Language Models
    Sohan Patnaik, Rishabh Jain, Balaji Krishnamurthy, Mausoom Sarkar. CVPR 2025, pp. 23701-23711 (2025). [Paper]
  3. VisDoM: Multi-Document QA with Visually Rich Elements Using Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation
    Manan Suri, Puneet Mathur, Franck Dernoncourt, et al. NAACL 2025, pp. 6088-6109 (2025). [Paper]
  4. LayoutCoT: Unleashing the Deep Reasoning Potential of Large Language Models for Layout Generation
    Hengyu Shi, Junhao Su, Junfeng Luo, Jialin Gao. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  5. Efficient End-to-End Visual Document Understanding with Rationale Distillation
    Wang Zhu, Alekh Agarwal, Mandar Joshi, et al. NAACL 2024. [Paper]
  6. VisFocus: Prompt-Guided Vision Encoders for OCR-Free Dense Document Understanding
    Ofir Abramovich, Niv Nayman, Sharon Fogel, et al. ECCV 2024, pp. 241-259 (2024). [Paper]
  7. PosterLlama: Bridging Design Ability of Language Model to Content-Aware Layout Generation
    Jaejung Seol, Seojun Kim, Jaejun Yoo. ECCV 2024, pp. 451-468 (2024). [Paper]
  8. SciPostLayout: A Dataset for Layout Analysis and Layout Generation of Scientific Posters
    Hao Wang, Shohei Tanaka, Yoshitaka Ushiku. CVPR Workshops 2024, pp. 8136-8141 (2024). [Paper]
  9. OmniParser: A Unified Framework for Text Spotting, Key Information Extraction and Table Recognition
    Jianqiang Wan, Sibo Song, Wenwen Yu, et al. CVPR 2024, pp. 15641-15653 (2024). [Paper]
  10. DLAFormer: An End-to-End Transformer For Document Layout Analysis
    Jiawei Wang, Kai Hu, Qiang Huo. ICDAR 2024, pp. 40-57 (2024). [Paper]
  11. DocLLM: A Layout-Aware Generative Language Model for Multimodal Document Understanding
    Dongsheng Wang, Natraj Raman, Mathieu Sibue, et al. ACL 2024, pp. 8529-8548 (2024). [Paper]
  12. Corrective Retrieval Augmented Generation
    Shi-Qi Yan, Jia-Chen Gu, Yun Zhu, Zhen-Hua Ling. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  13. RAFT: Adapting Language Model to Domain Specific RAG
    Tianjun Zhang, Shishir G. Patil, Naman Jain, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  14. VASCAR: Content-Aware Layout Generation via Visual-Aware Self-Correction
    Jiahao Zhang, Ryota Yoshihashi, Shunsuke Kitada, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  15. MMP: Towards Robust Multi-Modal Learning with Masked Modality Projection
    Niki Nezakati, Md Kaykobad Reza, Ameya Patil, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  16. M3DocRAG: Multi-modal Retrieval is What You Need for Multi-page Multi-document Understanding
    Jaemin Cho, Debanjan Mahata, Ozan Irsoy, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  17. CREPE: Coordinate-Aware End-to-End Document Parser
    Yamato Okamoto, Youngmin Baek, Geewook Kim, et al. ICDAR 2024, pp. 3-20 (2024). [Paper]
  18. LTSim: Layout Transportation-based Similarity Measure for Evaluating Layout Generation
    Mayu Otani, Naoto Inoue, Kotaro Kikuchi, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  19. MissModal: Increasing Robustness to Missing Modality in Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
    Ronghao Lin, Haifeng Hu. TACL 2023, pp. 1686-1702 (2023). [Paper]
  20. Automatic Generation of Scientific Papers for Data Augmentation in Document Layout Analysis
    Lorenzo Pisaneschi, Andrea Gemelli, Simone Marinai. Pattern Recognition Letters, 2023. [Paper]
  21. Unifying Layout Generation With a Decoupled Diffusion Model
    Mude Hui, Zhizheng Zhang, Xiaoyi Zhang, et al. CVPR 2023, pp. 1942-1951 (2023). [Paper]
  22. LayoutDM: Discrete Diffusion Model for Controllable Layout Generation
    Naoto Inoue, Kotaro Kikuchi, Edgar Simo-Serra, et al. CVPR 2023, pp. 10167-10176 (2023). [Paper]
  23. VLCDoC: Vision-Language Contrastive Pre-training Model for Cross-Modal Document Classification
    Souhail Bakkali, Zuheng Ming, Mickael Coustaty, et al. Pattern Recognition, Vol. 139, 109419 (2023). [Paper]
  24. LayoutLMv3: Pre-training for Document AI with Unified Text and Image Masking [Paper]
  25. LayoutLMv2: Multi-modal Pre-training for Visually-rich Document Understanding
    Yang Xu, Yiheng Xu, Tengchao Lv, et al. ACL-IJCNLP 2021, pp. 2579-2591 (2021). [Paper]
  26. LayoutLM: Pre-training of Text and Layout for Document Image Understanding
    Yiheng Xu, Minghao Li, Lei Cui, et al. KDD 2020, pp. 1192-1200 (2020). [Paper]
  27. ViLT: Vision-and-Language Transformer Without Convolution or Region Supervision
    Wonjae Kim, Bokyung Son, Ildoo Kim. ICML 2021. [Paper]
  28. DocFormer: End-to-End Transformer for Document Understanding
    Srikar Appalaraju, Bhavan Jasani, Bhargava Urala Kota, et al. ICCV 2021, pp. 993-1003 (2021). [Paper]
  29. FUNSD: A Dataset for Form Understanding in Noisy Scanned Documents
    Guillaume Jaume, Hazim Kemal Ekenel, Jean-Philippe Thiran. ICDARW 2019. [Paper]
  30. Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks [Paper]

5.3.4 Program Analysis

  1. Kimina-Prover Preview: Towards Large Formal Reasoning Models with Reinforcement Learning
    Haiming Wang, Mert Unsal, Xiaohan Lin, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  2. Goedel-Prover: A Frontier Model for Open-Source Automated Theorem Proving
    Yong Lin, Shange Tang, Bohan Lyu, et al. arXiv 2025. [Paper]
  3. Teaching Large Language Models to Self-Debug
    Xinyun Chen, Maxwell Lin, Nathanael Schärli, Denny Zhou. ICLR 2024. [Paper]
  4. Large Language Models are Few-Shot Summarizers: Multi-Intent Comment Generation via In-Context Learning
    Mingyang Geng, Shangwen Wang, Dezun Dong, et al. ICSE 2024, Article 39, pp. 1-13 (2024). [Paper]
  5. FT2Ra: A Fine-Tuning-Inspired Approach to Retrieval-Augmented Code Completion
    Qi Guo, Xiaohong Li, Xiaofei Xie, et al. ISSTA 2024, pp. 313-324 (2024). [Paper]
  6. Pre-training by Predicting Program Dependencies for Vulnerability Analysis Tasks
    Zhongxin Liu, Zhijie Tang, Junwei Zhang, et al. ICSE 2024, Article 151, pp. 1-13 (2024). [Paper]
  7. WizardCoder: Empowering Code Large Language Models with Evol-Instruct
    Ziyang Luo, Can Xu, Pu Zhao, et al. ICLR 2024. [Paper]
  8. Automatic Semantic Augmentation of Language Model Prompts (for Code Summarization) [Paper]
  9. REPOFUSE: Repository-Level Code Completion with Fused Dual Context
    Ming Liang, Xiaoheng Xie, Gehao Zhang, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  10. DeepSeek-Prover: Advancing Theorem Proving in LLMs through Large-Scale Synthetic Data
    Huajian Xin, Daya Guo, Zhihong Shao, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  11. Repoformer: Selective Retrieval for Repository-Level Code Completion [Paper]
  12. Magicoder: Empowering Code Generation with OSS-Instruct [Paper]
  13. SCLA: Automated Smart Contract Summarization via LLMs and Semantic Augmentation [Paper]
  14. Large Language Model for Vulnerability Detection: Emerging Results and Future Directions [Paper]
  15. Software Vulnerability Detection with GPT and In-Context Learning
    Zhihong Liu, Qing Liao, Wenchao Gu, Cuiyun Gao. DSC 2023. [Paper]
  16. RepoCoder: Repository-Level Code Completion Through Iterative Retrieval and Generation
    Fengji Zhang, Bei Chen, Yue Zhang, et al. EMNLP 2023. [Paper]
  17. Vulnerability Detection by Learning From Syntax-Based Execution Paths of Code [Paper]
  18. Self-Instruct: Aligning Language Models with Self-Generated Instructions [Paper]
  19. Syntax-Directed Variational Autoencoder for Structured Data
    Hanjun Dai, Yingtao Tian, Bo Dai, et al. ICLR 2018. [Paper]
  20. Composing Graphical Models with Neural Networks for Structured Representations and Fast Inference
    Matthew James Johnson, David Duvenaud, Alexander B. Wiltschko, et al. NeurIPS 2016. [Paper]

5.3.5 3D Model Analysis

3D-Language Fusion
  1. ProtChatGPT: Towards Understanding Proteins with Hybrid Representation and Large Language Models
    Chao Wang, Hehe Fan, Ruijie Quan, Lina Yao, Yi Yang. SIGIR 2025, pp. 1076-1086 (2025). [Paper]
  2. 3UR-LLM: An End-to-End Multimodal Large Language Model for 3D Scene Understanding
    Haomiao Xiong, Yunzhi Zhuge, Jiawen Zhu, et al. IEEE Trans. Multimedia, Vol. 27, pp. 2899-2911 (2025). [Paper]
  3. Towards 3D Molecule-Text Interpretation in Language Models
    Sihang Li, Zhiyuan Liu, Yanchen Luo, et al. ICLR 2024. [Paper]
  4. 3D-LLM: Injecting the 3D World into Large Language Models
    Yining Hong, Haoyu Zhen, Peihao Chen, et al. NeurIPS 2023, Article 900, pp. 20482-20494 (2023). [Paper]
  5. ProteinChat: Towards Achieving ChatGPT-Like Functionalities on Protein 3D Structures
    Han Guo, Mingjia Huo, Ruiyi Zhang, Pengtao Xie. TechRxiv 2023. [Paper]
3D-Derived Task Enhancement
  1. Do Large Language Models Truly Understand Geometric Structures?
    Xiaofeng Wang, Yiming Wang, Wenhong Zhu, Rui Wang. ICLR 2025. [Paper]
  2. 3DSMILES-GPT: 3D Molecular Pocket-Based Generation with Token-Only Large Language Model
    Jike Wang, Hao Luo, Rui Qin, et al. Chemical Science, 2025. [Paper]
  3. ProtChat: An AI Multi-Agent for Automated Protein Analysis Leveraging GPT-4 and Protein Language Model
    Huazhen Huang, Xianguo Shi, Hongyang Lei, et al. J. Chem. Inf. Model., 2024. [Paper]
  4. A Multimodal Protein Representation Framework for Quantifying Transferability Across Biochemical Downstream Tasks
    Fan Hu, Yishen Hu, Weihong Zhang, et al. Advanced Science, 2023. [Paper]
  5. SMILES: A Chemical Language and Information System. 1. Introduction to Methodology and Encoding Rules
    David Weininger. J. Chem. Inf. Comput. Sci., Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 31-36 (1988). [Paper]
Cross-modal Capability Refinement
  1. LLMI3D: MLLM-based 3D Perception from a Single 2D Image
    Fan Yang, Sicheng Zhao, Yanhao Zhang, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]

  2. Self-supervised Image-based 3D Model Retrieval
    Dan Song, Chu-Meng Zhang, Xiao-Qian Zhao, et al. ACM Trans. Multimedia Comput. Commun. Appl., Vol. 19, No. 2, Article 70, pp. 1-18 (2023). [Paper]

3-D data for LLM
  1. MeshAnything: Artist-Created Mesh Generation with Autoregressive Transformers
    Yiwen Chen, Tong He, Di Huang, et al. ICLR 2025. [Paper]
  2. CraftsMan3D: High-fidelity Mesh Generation with 3D Native Diffusion and Interactive Geometry Refiner
    Weiyu Li, Jiarui Liu, Hongyu Yan, et al. CVPR 2025, pp. 5307-5317 (2025). [Paper]
  3. SweetDreamer: Aligning Geometric Priors in 2D Diffusion for Consistent Text-to-3D
    Weiyu Li, Rui Chen, Xuelin Chen, Ping Tan. ICLR 2024. [Paper]
  4. RichDreamer: A Generalizable Normal-Depth Diffusion Model for Detail Richness in Text-to-3D
    Lingteng Qiu, Guanying Chen, Xiaodong Gu, et al. CVPR 2024, pp. 9914-9925 (2024). [Paper]
  5. Direct3D: Scalable Image-to-3D Generation via 3D Latent Diffusion Transformer
    Shuang Wu, Youtian Lin, Feihu Zhang, et al. NeurIPS 2024, Article 3873, pp. 121859-121881 (2024). [Paper]
  6. Hunyuan3D 1.0: A Unified Framework for Text-to-3D and Image-to-3D Generation
    Xianghui Yang, Huiwen Shi, Bowen Zhang, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  7. LLaMA-Mesh: Unifying 3D Mesh Generation with Language Models
    Zhengyi Wang, Jonathan Lorraine, Yikai Wang, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]
  8. Fantasia3D: Disentangling Geometry and Appearance for High-quality Text-to-3D Content Creation
    Rui Chen, Yongwei Chen, Ningxin Jiao, Kui Jia. ICCV 2023, pp. 22246-22256 (2023). [Paper]
  9. Zero-1-to-3: Zero-shot One Image to 3D Object
    Ruoshi Liu, Rundi Wu, Basile Van Hoorick, et al. ICCV 2023, pp. 9298-9309 (2023). [Paper]

5.4 LLM for Heterogeneous Data Analysis

5.4.1 LLM for Modality Alignment

  1. Unicorn: A Unified Multi-Tasking Matching Model
    Ju Fan, Jianhong Tu, Guoliang Li, et al. ACM SIGMOD Record, Vol. 53, No. 1, pp. 44-53 (2024). [Paper]

  2. Symphony: Towards Natural Language Query Answering over Multi-modal Data Lakes
    Zui Chen, Zihui Gu, Lei Cao, Ju Fan, Sam Madden, Nan Tang. CIDR 2023. [Paper]

5.4.2 LLM for Heterogeneous Data Retrieval

  1. Towards Operationalizing Heterogeneous Data Discovery
    Jin Wang, Yanlin Feng, Chen Shen, Sajjadur Rahman, Eser Kandogan. arXiv 2025. [Paper]

  2. Semantic Operators: A Declarative Model for Rich, AI-based Data Processing
    Liana Patel, Siddharth Jha, Melissa Pan, et al. arXiv 2024. [Paper]

  3. CAESURA: Language Models as Multi-Modal Query Planners
    Matthias Urban, Carsten Binnig. arXiv 2023. [Paper]

5.4.2 Heterogeneous Data Analysis Agents

  1. An Interactive Multi-Modal Query Answering System with Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models
    Mengzhao Wang, Haotian Wu, Xiangyu Ke, et al. Proc. VLDB Endow., Vol. 17, No. 12, pp. 4333-4336 (2024). [Paper]
  2. MUST: An Effective and Scalable Framework for Multimodal Search of Target Modality
    Mengzhao Wang, Xiangyu Ke, Xiaoliang Xu, et al. ICDE 2024. [Paper]
  3. Explainable Multi-Modal Data Exploration in Natural Language via LLM Agent
    Farhad Nooralahzadeh, Yi Zhang, Jonathan Furst, Kurt Stockinger. arXiv 2024. [Paper]