📰 Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era 2026 — accepted papers

Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era 2026 is the 2026 edition of the Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era, held in San Diego, California, United States, July 2026 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). The ACL Anthology lists 24 papers of it; our library holds 14 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 San Diego, California, United States · 🗓 July 2026

Most cited papers

By their OpenAlex citations; a paper with our summary links to its page here, the others to the original.

1. More Than Efficiency: Embedding Compression Improves Domain Adaptation in Dense RetrievalChunsheng Zuo, Daniel Khashabi2 citations · our summary
2. Framework of Thoughts: A Foundation Framework for Dynamic and Optimized Reasoning based on Chains, Trees, and Graphs ↗Felix Fricke, Simon Malberg, Georg Groh1 citation
3. StructHallu-Drift: Benchmarking Structured Hallucinations Under Schema Evolution in LLMs ↗Mujtaba Hasan1 citation
4. The Mighty ToRR: A Benchmark for Table Reasoning and Robustness in LLMsShir Ashury-Tahan, Yifan Mai, Rajmohan C et al.1 citation · our summary
5. TreeDiff: AST-Guided Code Generation with Diffusion LLMsYiming Zeng, Jinghan Cao, Zexin Li et al.1 citation · our summary

All accepted papers (24)

The most cited first; 14 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. More Than Efficiency: Embedding Compression Improves Domain Adaptation in Dense RetrievalChunsheng Zuo, Daniel Khashabi2 citations · our summary
2. Framework of Thoughts: A Foundation Framework for Dynamic and Optimized Reasoning based on Chains, Trees, and Graphs ↗Felix Fricke, Simon Malberg, Georg Groh1 citation
3. StructHallu-Drift: Benchmarking Structured Hallucinations Under Schema Evolution in LLMs ↗Mujtaba Hasan1 citation
4. The Mighty ToRR: A Benchmark for Table Reasoning and Robustness in LLMsShir Ashury-Tahan, Yifan Mai, Rajmohan C et al.1 citation · our summary
5. TreeDiff: AST-Guided Code Generation with Diffusion LLMsYiming Zeng, Jinghan Cao, Zexin Li et al.1 citation · our summary
6. Asking language models how to represent data for fine-tuningUsneek Singh, Ananya Singha, Abhijeet Awasthi et al.our summary
7. Can LLMs Self-Correct Table Reasoning Errors?Farseen Shaikhour summary
8. Chart-RL: Generalized Chart Comprehension via Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable RewardsXin Zhang, Xingyu Li, Rongguang Wang et al.our summary
9. DSMentor: Curriculum-Guided Inference with Online Memory for Data-Science LLM AgentsHe Wang, Alexander Hanbo Li, Yiqun Hu et al.our summary
10. Generalization in Graph Reasoning: A Systematic Comparison of LLM Training ApproachesSola Shirai, Kavitha Srinivas, Julian Dolby et al.our summary
11. Map-of-Actions: Deliberate Reasoning over Multi-Labeled GraphsWuguang Ni, Kai Yangour summary
12. Mixed-Policy GRPO for Text-to-SQL with Off-Policy Data GenerationMarko Sterbentz, Michael Glass, Nhan H Pham et al.our summary
13. Modeling LLM Agent Reviewer Dynamics in Elo-Ranked Review System ↗Hsiang-Wei Huang, Junbin Lu, Kuang-Ming Chen et al.
14. Ontology-Free General-Domain Knowledge Graph-to-Text Generation Dataset Synthesis using Large Language Model ↗Daehui Kim, Deokhyung Kang, Sangwon Ryu et al.
15. Output-Space Search: Targeting LLM Generations in a Frozen Encoder-Defined Output SpaceTobias Materzokour summary
16. RSAT: Structured Attribution Makes Small Language Models Faithful Table Reasoners ↗Jugal Gajjar, Kamalasankari Subramaniakuppusamy
17. Reasoners or Translators? Contamination-aware Evaluation and Neuro-Symbolic Robustness on Tax Law ↗Parisa Kordjamshidi, Samer Aslan, Madhavan Seshadri et al.
18. Routing End User Queries to Enterprise DatabasesSaikrishna Sudarshan, Tanay Kulkarni, Manasi Patwardhan et al.our summary
19. SchemaScope: How Join-Hop Depth Breaks Text-to-SQL in Large Language Models, and a Decomposition-Based Remedy ↗Kaustubh S. Bukkapatnam, Rayan Malik
20. StructSurvey: Structured Agentic Retrieval for Automated Survey Paper GenerationPaolo Pedinotti, Enrico Santusour summary
21. TabBridge: Bridging Structure and Context for Accurate Table Reasoning ↗Jeongwoo Lee, Eunsoo Lee, Jihie Kim
22. TabFaith: Benchmarking and Improving Structural Faithfulness in LLM Table Summarization ↗Kaustubh S. Bukkapatnam, Sohum Mehta
23. TabGuard: Agentic LLM Orchestration for Adaptive Tabular Anomaly Detection via Dynamic Validator Selection and GenerationSrihari Unnikrishnan, Minghua Maour summary
24. UNJOIN: Enhancing Multi-Table Text-to-SQL Generation via Schema Simplification ↗Poojah Ganesan, Rajat Aayush Jha, Dan Roth et al.

📄 Papers with our summary in our library (14)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. TreeDiff: AST-Guided Code Generation with Diffusion LLMsWorkshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM EraYiming Zeng, Jinghan Cao, Zexin Li, et al.2026 · 3 citations
2. More Than Efficiency: Embedding Compression Improves Domain Adaptation in Dense RetrievalWorkshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM EraChunsheng Zuo, Daniel Khashabi2026 · 2 citations
3. StructSurvey: Structured Agentic Retrieval for Automated Survey Paper GenerationWorkshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM EraPaolo Pedinotti, Enrico Santus2026 · 1 citation
4. The Mighty ToRR: A Benchmark for Table Reasoning and Robustness in LLMsWorkshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM EraShir Ashury-Tahan, Yifan Mai, Rajmohan C, et al.2026 · 1 citation
5. Chart-RL: Generalized Chart Comprehension via Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable RewardsWorkshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM EraXin Zhang, Xingyu Li, Rongguang Wang, et al.2026 · 1 citation
6. Output-Space Search: Targeting LLM Generations in a Frozen Encoder-Defined Output SpaceWorkshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM EraTobias Materzok2026
7. Map-of-Actions: Deliberate Reasoning over Multi-Labeled GraphsWorkshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM EraWuguang Ni, Kai Yang2026
8. Can LLMs Self-Correct Table Reasoning Errors?Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM EraFarseen Shaikh2026
9. Generalization in Graph Reasoning: A Systematic Comparison of LLM Training ApproachesWorkshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM EraSola Shirai, Kavitha Srinivas, Julian Dolby, et al.2026
10. Asking language models how to represent data for fine-tuningWorkshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM EraUsneek Singh, Ananya Singha, Abhijeet Awasthi, et al.2026
11. Mixed-Policy GRPO for Text-to-SQL with Off-Policy Data GenerationWorkshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM EraMarko Sterbentz, Michael Glass, Nhan H Pham, et al.2026
12. Routing End User Queries to Enterprise DatabasesWorkshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM EraSaikrishna Sudarshan, Tanay Kulkarni, Manasi Patwardhan, et al.2026
13. TabGuard: Agentic LLM Orchestration for Adaptive Tabular Anomaly Detection via Dynamic Validator Selection and GenerationWorkshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM EraSrihari Unnikrishnan, Minghua Ma2026
14. DSMentor: Curriculum-Guided Inference with Online Memory for Data-Science LLM AgentsWorkshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM EraHe Wang, Alexander Hanbo Li, Yiqun Hu, et al.2026

🧭 Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

🧠Language models & pretraining (6)🧮Reasoning (4)💻Code & programming languages (2)🔍Information retrieval & search (2)📏Evaluation & benchmarks (1)🧾Semantic parsing & meaning representation (1)

📚 Fields

🖥️Computer Science (14)🎭Arts and Humanities (13)🎯Decision Sciences (1)

🧑‍🔬 Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

🏛️ Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

🏢MicrosoftRedmond · United States2 works here🎓Florida State UniversityTallahassee · United States1 work here🎓University of California, RiversideRiverside · United States1 work here🎓Northwestern UniversityEvanston · United States1 work here🎓Tongji UniversityShanghai · China1 work here🏢BloombergNew York · United States1 work here🎓Georgia Institute of TechnologyAtlanta · United States1 work here🏢AmazonSeattle · United States1 work here🎓University of ConnecticutStorrs · United States1 work here🎓Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore · United States1 work here🎓National University of SingaporeSingapore · Singapore1 work here🎓University of PittsburghPittsburgh · United States1 work here

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