Can LLMs Use Relational Transformer Embeddings?

📅 2026-08-31
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研究通过将关系变换器嵌入注入大型语言模型来处理多表结构和语言推理问题,但实验结果表明该方法不稳定且表现不佳。
📝 Abstract
Injecting frozen relational-encoder embeddings as soft tokens into a large language model (LLM) is a conceptually appealing fusion strategy: the encoder handles multi-table structure, the LLM handles language and reasoning, and no lossy text serialization is required. We test this hypothesis concretely by injecting embeddings from a frozen Relational Transformer (RT) into Qwen3.5-4B via a learned MLP projection and LoRA adaptation, trained first with supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on chain-of-thought reasoning traces and then with group-based reinforcement learning (GSPO). We evaluate across 10 binary classification tasks on 6 relational databases from RelBench, under four supervision regimes: single-task (ST), within-dataset (WD), cross-dataset (CD), and all-task (ALL). The hybrid model does not consistently outperform standalone RT: it is frequently below random, highly sensitive to serialization format and relational-token budget, and unstable under RL training. We report these negative results and analyze the failure modes, arguing that soft-token fusion requires stronger alignment objectives and schema-aware design before it can serve as a reliable route to relational prediction.
Problem

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Relational Transformer
Large Language Model
Soft Tokens
Relational Prediction
Embeddings
Innovation

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Relational Transformer
soft tokens
MLP projection
LoRA adaptation
relational prediction
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Francisco Galuppo Azevedo
Kunumi Institute, Brazil; Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
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Clarissa Lima Loures
Kunumi Institute, Brazil; Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil