Beyond Rows to Reasoning: Agentic Retrieval for Multimodal Spreadsheet Understanding and Editing

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Display score: 8/10
Last proof check: 2026-04-02
Score updated: 2026-04-02
Score fresh until: 2026-05-02
References: 0
Source count: 0
Coverage: 17%

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Evidence Receipt

Route status: building

Claims: 8

References: Pending verification

Proof: Verification pending

Freshness state: computing

Source paper: Beyond Rows to Reasoning: Agentic Retrieval for Multimodal Spreadsheet Understanding and Editing

PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.06503v1

Source count: Pending verification

Coverage: 17%

Last proof check: 2026-04-02T02:30:40.136Z

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Subject: Beyond Rows to Reasoning: Agentic Retrieval for Multimodal Spreadsheet Understanding and Editing

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BRTR achieves state-of-the-art performance across three frontier spreadsheet understanding benchmarks, surpassing prior methods by 25 percentage points on FRTR-Bench
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surpassing prior methods by 25 percentage points on FRTR-Bench, 7 points on SpreadsheetLLM
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and 32 points on FINCH
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We evaluate five multimodal embedding models, identifying NVIDIA NeMo Retriever 1B as the top performer for mixed tabular and visual data
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cost analysis shows GPT-5.2 achieves the best efficiency-accuracy trade-off
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Throughout all evaluations, BRTR maintains full auditability through explicit tool-call traces
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state-of-the-art approaches exclude critical context through single-pass retrieval, lose data resolution through compression, and exceed LLM context windows through naive full-context injection
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We introduce Beyond Rows to Reasoning (BRTR), a multimodal agentic framework for spreadsheet understanding that replaces single-pass retrieval with an iterative tool-calling loop
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