Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026)

Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026) Vivek Gupta editor Kaize Ding editor Harsha Kokel editor Yue Zhao editor Amit Agarwal editor Yu Wang editor Michael Glass editor Yu Zhang editor Kavitha Srinivas editor Xiusi Chen editor Oktie Hassanzadeh editor Qi Zhu editor Shuaichen Chang editor Yuan Luo editor 2026-07 Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States text conference publication 979-8-89176-406-4 surgellm-2026-1 https://aclanthology.org/2026.surgellm-1.0/ UNJOIN: Enhancing Multi-Table Text-to-SQL Generation via Schema Simplification Poojah Ganesan author Rajat Aayush Jha author Dan Roth author Vivek Gupta author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026) Vivek Gupta editor Kaize Ding editor Harsha Kokel editor Yue Zhao editor Amit Agarwal editor Yu Wang editor Michael Glass editor Yu Zhang editor Kavitha Srinivas editor Xiusi Chen editor Oktie Hassanzadeh editor Qi Zhu editor Shuaichen Chang editor Yuan Luo editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-406-4 ganesan-etal-2026-unjoin https://aclanthology.org/2026.surgellm-1.1/ 2026-07 1 15 The Mighty ToRR: A Benchmark for Table Reasoning and Robustness in LLMs Shir Ashury-Tahan author Yifan Mai author Rajmohan C author Ariel Gera author Yotam Perlitz author Asaf Yehudai author Elron Bandel author Leshem Choshen author Eyal Shnarch author Percy Liang author Michal Shmueli-Scheuer author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026) Vivek Gupta editor Kaize Ding editor Harsha Kokel editor Yue Zhao editor Amit Agarwal editor Yu Wang editor Michael Glass editor Yu Zhang editor Kavitha Srinivas editor Xiusi Chen editor Oktie Hassanzadeh editor Qi Zhu editor Shuaichen Chang editor Yuan Luo editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-406-4 ashury-tahan-etal-2026-mighty https://aclanthology.org/2026.surgellm-1.2/ 2026-07 16 51 Ontology-Free General-Domain Knowledge Graph-to-Text Generation Dataset Synthesis using Large Language Model Daehui Kim author Deokhyung Kang author Sangwon Ryu author Gary Lee author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026) Vivek Gupta editor Kaize Ding editor Harsha Kokel editor Yue Zhao editor Amit Agarwal editor Yu Wang editor Michael Glass editor Yu Zhang editor Kavitha Srinivas editor Xiusi Chen editor Oktie Hassanzadeh editor Qi Zhu editor Shuaichen Chang editor Yuan Luo editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-406-4 kim-etal-2026-ontology https://aclanthology.org/2026.surgellm-1.3/ 2026-07 52 69 Output-Space Search: Targeting LLM Generations in a Frozen Encoder-Defined Output Space Tobias Materzok author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026) Vivek Gupta editor Kaize Ding editor Harsha Kokel editor Yue Zhao editor Amit Agarwal editor Yu Wang editor Michael Glass editor Yu Zhang editor Kavitha Srinivas editor Xiusi Chen editor Oktie Hassanzadeh editor Qi Zhu editor Shuaichen Chang editor Yuan Luo editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-406-4 materzok-2026-output https://aclanthology.org/2026.surgellm-1.4/ 2026-07 70 92 TreeDiff: AST-Guided Code Generation with Diffusion LLMs Yiming Zeng author Jinghan Cao author Zexin Li author Yiming Chen author Tao Ren author Zhuochun Li author Dawei Xiang author Xidong Wu author Shangqian Gao author Tingting Yu author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026) Vivek Gupta editor Kaize Ding editor Harsha Kokel editor Yue Zhao editor Amit Agarwal editor Yu Wang editor Michael Glass editor Yu Zhang editor Kavitha Srinivas editor Xiusi Chen editor Oktie Hassanzadeh editor Qi Zhu editor Shuaichen Chang editor Yuan Luo editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-406-4 zeng-etal-2026-treediff https://aclanthology.org/2026.surgellm-1.5/ 2026-07 93 106 Chart-RL: Generalized Chart Comprehension via Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards Xin Zhang author Xingyu Li author Rongguang Wang author Ruizhong Miao author Zheng Wang author Yuying Wang author Dan Roth author Chenyang Li author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026) Vivek Gupta editor Kaize Ding editor Harsha Kokel editor Yue Zhao editor Amit Agarwal editor Yu Wang editor Michael Glass editor Yu Zhang editor Kavitha Srinivas editor Xiusi Chen editor Oktie Hassanzadeh editor Qi Zhu editor Shuaichen Chang editor Yuan Luo editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-406-4 zhang-etal-2026-chart https://aclanthology.org/2026.surgellm-1.6/ 2026-07 107 118 RSAT: Structured Attribution Makes Small Language Models Faithful Table Reasoners Jugal Gajjar author Kamalasankari Subramaniakuppusamy author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026) Vivek Gupta editor Kaize Ding editor Harsha Kokel editor Yue Zhao editor Amit Agarwal editor Yu Wang editor Michael Glass editor Yu Zhang editor Kavitha Srinivas editor Xiusi Chen editor Oktie Hassanzadeh editor Qi Zhu editor Shuaichen Chang editor Yuan Luo editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-406-4 gajjar-subramaniakuppusamy-2026-rsat https://aclanthology.org/2026.surgellm-1.7/ 2026-07 119 131 Framework of Thoughts: A Foundation Framework for Dynamic and Optimized Reasoning based on Chains, Trees, and Graphs Felix Fricke author Simon Malberg author Georg Groh author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026) Vivek Gupta editor Kaize Ding editor Harsha Kokel editor Yue Zhao editor Amit Agarwal editor Yu Wang editor Michael Glass editor Yu Zhang editor Kavitha Srinivas editor Xiusi Chen editor Oktie Hassanzadeh editor Qi Zhu editor Shuaichen Chang editor Yuan Luo editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-406-4 fricke-etal-2026-framework https://aclanthology.org/2026.surgellm-1.8/ 2026-07 132 151 TabGuard: Agentic LLM Orchestration for Adaptive Tabular Anomaly Detection via Dynamic Validator Selection and Generation Srihari Unnikrishnan author Minghua Ma author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026) Vivek Gupta editor Kaize Ding editor Harsha Kokel editor Yue Zhao editor Amit Agarwal editor Yu Wang editor Michael Glass editor Yu Zhang editor Kavitha Srinivas editor Xiusi Chen editor Oktie Hassanzadeh editor Qi Zhu editor Shuaichen Chang editor Yuan Luo editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-406-4 unnikrishnan-ma-2026-tabguard https://aclanthology.org/2026.surgellm-1.9/ 2026-07 152 161 StructSurvey: Structured Agentic Retrieval for Automated Survey Paper Generation Paolo Pedinotti author Enrico Santus author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026) Vivek Gupta editor Kaize Ding editor Harsha Kokel editor Yue Zhao editor Amit Agarwal editor Yu Wang editor Michael Glass editor Yu Zhang editor Kavitha Srinivas editor Xiusi Chen editor Oktie Hassanzadeh editor Qi Zhu editor Shuaichen Chang editor Yuan Luo editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-406-4 pedinotti-santus-2026-structsurvey https://aclanthology.org/2026.surgellm-1.10/ 2026-07 162 181 Modeling LLM Agent Reviewer Dynamics in Elo-Ranked Review System Hsiang-Wei Huang author Junbin Lu author Kuang-Ming Chen author Jianxu Shangguan author Jenq-Neng Hwang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026) Vivek Gupta editor Kaize Ding editor Harsha Kokel editor Yue Zhao editor Amit Agarwal editor Yu Wang editor Michael Glass editor Yu Zhang editor Kavitha Srinivas editor Xiusi Chen editor Oktie Hassanzadeh editor Qi Zhu editor Shuaichen Chang editor Yuan Luo editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-406-4 huang-etal-2026-modeling https://aclanthology.org/2026.surgellm-1.11/ 2026-07 182 189 DSMentor: Curriculum-Guided Inference with Online Memory for Data-Science LLM Agents He Wang author Alexander Hanbo Li author Yiqun Hu author Sheng Zhang author Hideo Kobayashi author Jiani Zhang author Henghui Zhu author Chung-Wei Hang author Patrick Ng author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026) Vivek Gupta editor Kaize Ding editor Harsha Kokel editor Yue Zhao editor Amit Agarwal editor Yu Wang editor Michael Glass editor Yu Zhang editor Kavitha Srinivas editor Xiusi Chen editor Oktie Hassanzadeh editor Qi Zhu editor Shuaichen Chang editor Yuan Luo editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-406-4 wang-etal-2026-dsmentor https://aclanthology.org/2026.surgellm-1.12/ 2026-07 190 208 Asking language models how to represent data for fine-tuning Usneek Singh author Ananya Singha author Abhijeet Awasthi author Sumit Gulwani author Aditya Kanade author Vu Le author Mukul Singh author Gust Verbruggen author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026) Vivek Gupta editor Kaize Ding editor Harsha Kokel editor Yue Zhao editor Amit Agarwal editor Yu Wang editor Michael Glass editor Yu Zhang editor Kavitha Srinivas editor Xiusi Chen editor Oktie Hassanzadeh editor Qi Zhu editor Shuaichen Chang editor Yuan Luo editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-406-4 singh-etal-2026-asking https://aclanthology.org/2026.surgellm-1.13/ 2026-07 209 218 TabBridge: Bridging Structure and Context for Accurate Table Reasoning Jeongwoo Lee author Eunsoo Lee author Jihie Kim author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026) Vivek Gupta editor Kaize Ding editor Harsha Kokel editor Yue Zhao editor Amit Agarwal editor Yu Wang editor Michael Glass editor Yu Zhang editor Kavitha Srinivas editor Xiusi Chen editor Oktie Hassanzadeh editor Qi Zhu editor Shuaichen Chang editor Yuan Luo editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-406-4 lee-etal-2026-tabbridge https://aclanthology.org/2026.surgellm-1.14/ 2026-07 219 240 Map-of-Actions: Deliberate Reasoning over Multi-Labeled Graphs Wuguang Ni author Kai Yang author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026) Vivek Gupta editor Kaize Ding editor Harsha Kokel editor Yue Zhao editor Amit Agarwal editor Yu Wang editor Michael Glass editor Yu Zhang editor Kavitha Srinivas editor Xiusi Chen editor Oktie Hassanzadeh editor Qi Zhu editor Shuaichen Chang editor Yuan Luo editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-406-4 ni-yang-2026-map https://aclanthology.org/2026.surgellm-1.15/ 2026-07 241 259 Routing End User Queries to Enterprise Databases Saikrishna Sudarshan author Tanay Kulkarni author Manasi Patwardhan author Lovekesh Vig author Ashwin Srinivasan author Tanmay Tulsidas Verlekar author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026) Vivek Gupta editor Kaize Ding editor Harsha Kokel editor Yue Zhao editor Amit Agarwal editor Yu Wang editor Michael Glass editor Yu Zhang editor Kavitha Srinivas editor Xiusi Chen editor Oktie Hassanzadeh editor Qi Zhu editor Shuaichen Chang editor Yuan Luo editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-406-4 sudarshan-etal-2026-routing https://aclanthology.org/2026.surgellm-1.16/ 2026-07 260 268 SchemaScope: How Join-Hop Depth Breaks Text-to-SQL in Large Language Models, and a Decomposition-Based Remedy Kaustubh S Bukkapatnam author Rayan Malik author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026) Vivek Gupta editor Kaize Ding editor Harsha Kokel editor Yue Zhao editor Amit Agarwal editor Yu Wang editor Michael Glass editor Yu Zhang editor Kavitha Srinivas editor Xiusi Chen editor Oktie Hassanzadeh editor Qi Zhu editor Shuaichen Chang editor Yuan Luo editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-406-4 bukkapatnam-malik-2026-schemascope https://aclanthology.org/2026.surgellm-1.17/ 2026-07 269 274 Generalization in Graph Reasoning: A Systematic Comparison of LLM Training Approaches Sola Shirai author Kavitha Srinivas author Julian Dolby author Michael Katz author Shirin Sohrabi author Horst Samulowitz author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026) Vivek Gupta editor Kaize Ding editor Harsha Kokel editor Yue Zhao editor Amit Agarwal editor Yu Wang editor Michael Glass editor Yu Zhang editor Kavitha Srinivas editor Xiusi Chen editor Oktie Hassanzadeh editor Qi Zhu editor Shuaichen Chang editor Yuan Luo editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-406-4 shirai-etal-2026-generalization https://aclanthology.org/2026.surgellm-1.18/ 2026-07 275 297 Can LLMs Self-Correct Table Reasoning Errors? Farseen Shaikh author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026) Vivek Gupta editor Kaize Ding editor Harsha Kokel editor Yue Zhao editor Amit Agarwal editor Yu Wang editor Michael Glass editor Yu Zhang editor Kavitha Srinivas editor Xiusi Chen editor Oktie Hassanzadeh editor Qi Zhu editor Shuaichen Chang editor Yuan Luo editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-406-4 shaikh-2026-llms https://aclanthology.org/2026.surgellm-1.19/ 2026-07 298 312 Mixed-Policy GRPO for Text-to-SQL with Off-Policy Data Generation Marko Sterbentz author Michael Glass author Nhan H Pham author Dharmashankar Subramanian author Kristian J Hammond author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026) Vivek Gupta editor Kaize Ding editor Harsha Kokel editor Yue Zhao editor Amit Agarwal editor Yu Wang editor Michael Glass editor Yu Zhang editor Kavitha Srinivas editor Xiusi Chen editor Oktie Hassanzadeh editor Qi Zhu editor Shuaichen Chang editor Yuan Luo editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-406-4 sterbentz-etal-2026-mixed https://aclanthology.org/2026.surgellm-1.20/ 2026-07 313 325 TabFaith: Benchmarking and Improving Structural Faithfulness in LLM Table Summarization Kaustubh S Bukkapatnam author Sohum Mehta author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026) Vivek Gupta editor Kaize Ding editor Harsha Kokel editor Yue Zhao editor Amit Agarwal editor Yu Wang editor Michael Glass editor Yu Zhang editor Kavitha Srinivas editor Xiusi Chen editor Oktie Hassanzadeh editor Qi Zhu editor Shuaichen Chang editor Yuan Luo editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-406-4 bukkapatnam-mehta-2026-tabfaith https://aclanthology.org/2026.surgellm-1.21/ 2026-07 326 332 StructHallu-Drift: Benchmarking Structured Hallucinations Under Schema Evolution in LLMs Mujtaba Hasan author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026) Vivek Gupta editor Kaize Ding editor Harsha Kokel editor Yue Zhao editor Amit Agarwal editor Yu Wang editor Michael Glass editor Yu Zhang editor Kavitha Srinivas editor Xiusi Chen editor Oktie Hassanzadeh editor Qi Zhu editor Shuaichen Chang editor Yuan Luo editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-406-4 hasan-2026-structhallu https://aclanthology.org/2026.surgellm-1.22/ 2026-07 333 343 Reasoners or Translators? Contamination-aware Evaluation and Neuro-Symbolic Robustness on Tax Law Parisa Kordjamshidi author Samer Aslan author Madhavan Seshadri author Leslie Barrett author Enrico Santus author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026) Vivek Gupta editor Kaize Ding editor Harsha Kokel editor Yue Zhao editor Amit Agarwal editor Yu Wang editor Michael Glass editor Yu Zhang editor Kavitha Srinivas editor Xiusi Chen editor Oktie Hassanzadeh editor Qi Zhu editor Shuaichen Chang editor Yuan Luo editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-406-4 kordjamshidi-etal-2026-reasoners https://aclanthology.org/2026.surgellm-1.23/ 2026-07 344 360 More Than Efficiency: Embedding Compression Improves Domain Adaptation in Dense Retrieval Chunsheng Zuo author Daniel Khashabi author 2026-07 text Proceedings of the First Workshop on Structured Understanding, Retrieval, and Generation in the LLM Era (SURGeLLM 2026) Vivek Gupta editor Kaize Ding editor Harsha Kokel editor Yue Zhao editor Amit Agarwal editor Yu Wang editor Michael Glass editor Yu Zhang editor Kavitha Srinivas editor Xiusi Chen editor Oktie Hassanzadeh editor Qi Zhu editor Shuaichen Chang editor Yuan Luo editor Association for Computational Linguistics San Diego, California, United States conference publication 979-8-89176-406-4 zuo-khashabi-2026-efficiency https://aclanthology.org/2026.surgellm-1.24/ 2026-07 361 377