FormaT5: Abstention and Examples for Conditional Table Formatting with Natural Language
| Autor: | Singh, Mukul, Cambronero, José, Gulwani, Sumit, Le, Vu, Negreanu, Carina, Nouri, Elnaz, Raza, Mohammad, Verbruggen, Gust |
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| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | Formatting is an important property in tables for visualization, presentation, and analysis. Spreadsheet software allows users to automatically format their tables by writing data-dependent conditional formatting (CF) rules. Writing such rules is often challenging for users as it requires them to understand and implement the underlying logic. We present FormaT5, a transformer-based model that can generate a CF rule given the target table and a natural language description of the desired formatting logic. We find that user descriptions for these tasks are often under-specified or ambiguous, making it harder for code generation systems to accurately learn the desired rule in a single step. To tackle this problem of under-specification and minimise argument errors, FormaT5 learns to predict placeholders though an abstention objective. These placeholders can then be filled by a second model or, when examples of rows that should be formatted are available, by a programming-by-example system. To evaluate FormaT5 on diverse and real scenarios, we create an extensive benchmark of 1053 CF tasks, containing real-world descriptions collected from four different sources. We release our benchmarks to encourage research in this area. Abstention and filling allow FormaT5 to outperform 8 different neural approaches on our benchmarks, both with and without examples. Our results illustrate the value of building domain-specific learning systems. Comment: Contains inappropriately sourced conjecture of OpenAI's ChatGPT parameter count from www.forbes.com/sites/forbestechcouncil/2023/02/17/is-bigger-better-why-the-chatgpt-vs-gpt-3-vs-gpt-4-battle-is-just-a-family-chat, a citation which was omitted. The authors do not have direct knowledge or verification of this information, and relied solely on this article, which may lead to public confusion |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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