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Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris

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Structured Prediction for Scalable Spreadsheet Table Understanding: From Cell Types to Table Ranges (Extended Version)

Aug 16, 2026

This study addresses the challenge of structured understanding in spreadsheets caused by heterogeneous layouts. We propose a two-stage pipeline integrating CRF-LightGBM with deterministic algorithms and introduce the StatSheets benchmark dataset. By leveraging a lightweight model alongside a five-stage range extraction algorithm, our approach achieves predictive performance comparable to Transformer-based models at significantly lower computational costs. Experimental results demonstrate a cell classification F1-score of 0.937 and superior table detection accuracy over existing baselines, with markedly higher computational efficiency. Consequently, this work establishes an efficient and scalable paradigm for large-scale spreadsheet parsing, effectively balancing high performance with resource constraints in document layout analysis.

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Limit Points of Reflow with Minibatch Optimal Transport

Aug 07, 2026

This work investigates the asymptotic behavior of alternating Reflow iterations with mini-batch optimal transport (OT) under a fixed batch size. By introducing a novel notion of weakly corrected couplings, the authors prove that the limiting coupling satisfies N-cyclical monotonicity and, under suitable support conditions, coincides with the optimal transport map between the endpoint distributions. The analysis integrates the Reflow framework, mini-batch OT, N-cyclical monotonicity, and gradient-field constraints to demonstrate that the limit exhibits favorable structural properties—such as correctability and linearity. This study establishes, for the first time, a rigorous theoretical connection between the Reflow limit and classical optimal transport theory, thereby providing a formal convergence guarantee for the Reflow process.

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Bidirectional Typing with Freezing, Skeletons, and Ghosts

Jul 17, 2026

Traditional bidirectional type inference struggles to support first-class polymorphism and faces limitations in balancing flexibility and predictability in mixed information flow. This work proposes Fresco, the first approach integrating skeleton, phantom, and freeze mechanisms: skeletons enable localized bidirectional type information flow between functions and arguments, phantoms represent unknown types, and the freeze mechanism allows users to explicitly control the direction of information flow. Fresco supports flexible yet predictable type inference for first-class polymorphism and extends naturally to modal effect type systems. We present a concise declarative specification along with a corresponding algorithm, prove its soundness and completeness relative to the declarative system, and demonstrate through a prototype implementation that Fresco offers superior expressiveness, controllability, and extensibility.

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Structured Prediction for Scalable Spreadsheet Table Understanding: From Cell Types to Table Ranges (Extended Version)

Aug 16, 2026

This study addresses the challenge of structured understanding in spreadsheets caused by heterogeneous layouts. We propose a two-stage pipeline integrating CRF-LightGBM with deterministic algorithms and introduce the StatSheets benchmark dataset. By leveraging a lightweight model alongside a five-stage range extraction algorithm, our approach achieves predictive performance comparable to Transformer-based models at significantly lower computational costs. Experimental results demonstrate a cell classification F1-score of 0.937 and superior table detection accuracy over existing baselines, with markedly higher computational efficiency. Consequently, this work establishes an efficient and scalable paradigm for large-scale spreadsheet parsing, effectively balancing high performance with resource constraints in document layout analysis.

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Limit Points of Reflow with Minibatch Optimal Transport

Aug 07, 2026

This work investigates the asymptotic behavior of alternating Reflow iterations with mini-batch optimal transport (OT) under a fixed batch size. By introducing a novel notion of weakly corrected couplings, the authors prove that the limiting coupling satisfies N-cyclical monotonicity and, under suitable support conditions, coincides with the optimal transport map between the endpoint distributions. The analysis integrates the Reflow framework, mini-batch OT, N-cyclical monotonicity, and gradient-field constraints to demonstrate that the limit exhibits favorable structural properties—such as correctability and linearity. This study establishes, for the first time, a rigorous theoretical connection between the Reflow limit and classical optimal transport theory, thereby providing a formal convergence guarantee for the Reflow process.

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Bidirectional Typing with Freezing, Skeletons, and Ghosts

Jul 17, 2026

Traditional bidirectional type inference struggles to support first-class polymorphism and faces limitations in balancing flexibility and predictability in mixed information flow. This work proposes Fresco, the first approach integrating skeleton, phantom, and freeze mechanisms: skeletons enable localized bidirectional type information flow between functions and arguments, phantoms represent unknown types, and the freeze mechanism allows users to explicitly control the direction of information flow. Fresco supports flexible yet predictable type inference for first-class polymorphism and extends naturally to modal effect type systems. We present a concise declarative specification along with a corresponding algorithm, prove its soundness and completeness relative to the declarative system, and demonstrate through a prototype implementation that Fresco offers superior expressiveness, controllability, and extensibility.

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