Official announcements from Microsoft

Microsoft Introduces SpreadsheetLLM and SheetCompressor, Achieving 78.9% F1 Score in Spreadsheet Analysis

Jul 15, 2024, 06:06 PM

Microsoft has introduced SpreadsheetLLM, a new encoding framework designed to enhance the performance of large language models (LLMs) in understanding and analyzing complex spreadsheet data. This innovative system addresses the challenges posed by spreadsheets' two-dimensional grids, various layouts, and diverse formatting options. SpreadsheetLLM, along with SheetCompressor, significantly improves LLMs' capabilities in spreadsheet tasks, achieving a 25.6% improvement in table detection and a state-of-the-art 78.9% F1 score. The framework also offers high compression efficiency, with SheetCompressor achieving 25x compression. Future business users can use Wren AI to retrieve data from any databases and directly import it to Excel. This advancement is expected to boost enterprise productivity by unlocking insights from spreadsheets and improving data analysis.