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TabgenQA Wins Best Demo Paper Award at CIKM 2026

We are pleased to announce that “TabgenQA: A Platform for Non-Relational, Multi-Tabular, Numerical QA Benchmark Generation and LLM Evaluation” has received the Best Demo Paper Award at CIKM 2026, held in Rome, Italy, from November 7–11, 2026.

The paper, authored by Michele Luca Contalbo, Matteo Paganelli, Paolo Papotti, and Francesco Guerra, shows how generating multi-tabular QA benchmarks completely from scratch is crucial to assess LLMs’ performance on sparse evidence split across several non-relational tables, and on domain-specific scenarios.

Check out the paper for more information!