Which Table Format Do LLMs Understand Best? (Results for 11 Formats)

Re:Which Table Format Do LLMs Understand Best? (Results for ... by mattcollins on Sunday October 05, 2025 @03:21PM (#45484385)

I'm the person who ran the test.

To hopefully clarify a bit...

I intentionally chose input data large enough that the LLM would be scoring in the region of 50% accuracy in order to maximise the discriminative power of the test.

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Re:Which Table Format Do LLMs Understand Best? (Results for ... by __mharrison__ on Sunday October 05, 2025 @11:18PM (#45487340)

Can you expand on how you did this?

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Re:Which Table Format Do LLMs Understand Best? (Results for ... by mattcollins on Monday October 06, 2025 @04:47AM (#45489160)

I did a small test with just a couple of formats and something like 100 records, saw that the accuracy was higher than I wanted, then increased the number of records until the accuracy was down to 50%-ish (e.g. 100 -> 200 -> 500 -> 1000, though I forget the precise numbers.)

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