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arxiv: 2604.13392 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-15 · 💻 cs.AI

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ReSS: Learning Reasoning Models for Tabular Data Prediction via Symbolic Scaffold

Chenlang Yi, Gang Li, My T. Thai, Tianbao Yang, Tue Minh Cao, Yanmin Gong, Zizhan Xiong

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classification 💻 cs.AI
keywords tabular data predictiondecision treeslarge language modelssymbolic scaffoldsreasoning faithfulnessdata augmentationexplainable AIfine-tuning
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The pith

ReSS extracts decision paths from trees to scaffold LLM fine-tuning for tabular prediction with faithful reasoning.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces ReSS to combine the verifiable logic of decision trees with the semantic capabilities of large language models for predicting outcomes from tabular data. It extracts decision paths from trees to serve as scaffolds that direct an LLM to generate natural language explanations strictly following those paths. These explanations, paired with the data, create a dataset for fine-tuning the LLM into a reasoning model, supplemented by a data augmentation technique that preserves the scaffolds. This matters because high-stakes fields need models that are accurate yet produce consistent, human-readable reasoning without hallucinations. Results on benchmarks show gains of up to 10 percent over baselines while meeting new faithfulness metrics.

Core claim

ReSS leverages decision-tree models to extract instance-level decision paths as symbolic scaffolds. These scaffolds guide an LLM to generate grounded natural-language reasoning that adheres to the decision logic. The resulting dataset fine-tunes a pretrained LLM into a tabular reasoning model, enhanced by scaffold-invariant augmentation. This produces models that improve accuracy up to 10% on medical and financial tasks compared to decision trees and standard fine-tuning, while ensuring faithful and consistent reasoning as measured by hallucination rate, explanation necessity, and explanation sufficiency.

What carries the argument

The symbolic scaffold, consisting of instance-level decision paths extracted from a decision tree, which guides an LLM to produce reasoning that strictly follows the tree's logic.

If this is right

  • ReSS-trained models achieve up to 10% higher accuracy than traditional decision trees and standard fine-tuned LLMs on medical and financial benchmarks.
  • The generated reasoning exhibits low hallucination rates and high scores on explanation necessity and sufficiency metrics.
  • Scaffold-invariant data augmentation improves generalization and explainability of the fine-tuned models.
  • The approach produces consistent reasoning that adheres exactly to the underlying decision logic.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • This scaffolding approach could extend to other symbolic structures like rule lists for generating training data in structured prediction tasks.
  • It suggests a route for making neural models on tabular data more robust to distribution shifts by anchoring them to extracted logic.
  • Future applications might include using the scaffolds for debugging or editing model behavior by altering the source tree.

Load-bearing premise

That decision-tree paths extracted from the data can serve as sufficient scaffolds forcing an LLM to generate reasoning which is both logically faithful and semantically useful without introducing inconsistencies or losing predictive power.

What would settle it

A held-out test instance where the fine-tuned model produces a prediction that matches the tree but includes a reasoning step not present in the extracted decision path, or where accuracy on a new tabular benchmark drops below the original decision tree.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.13392 by Chenlang Yi, Gang Li, My T. Thai, Tianbao Yang, Tue Minh Cao, Yanmin Gong, Zizhan Xiong.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: An illustration of the ReSS pipeline applied to the diabetes prediction problem. 3.2. Using Decision Tree Paths as Symbolic Scaffolds Motivation of Using Symbolic Scaffolds. A consequence of the direct curation approach discussed above is that the generated rationale may contain many non-useful features. An example given in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Explanation sufficiency and necessity analysis for ReSS via feature masking across four tabular datasets, averaged over three random seeds. The x-axis denotes the number of masked features per instance, while the y-axis shows the resulting change in prediction accuracy under masking interventions [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: An example of step-by-step reasoning curated by ReSS on AD dataset. 25 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: An example of step-by-step reasoning curated by ReSS on Creditg dataset. 26 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: An example of step-by-step reasoning curated by ReSS on Diabetes dataset. 27 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p027_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: An example of step-by-step reasoning curated by ReSS on Homeloan dataset. 28 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: An example of step-by-step reasoning obtained by direct reasoning curation on Alzheimer’s Disease dataset. 29 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: An example of step-by-step reasoning obtained by direct reasoning curation on Creditg dataset. 30 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p030_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: An example of step-by-step reasoning obtained by direct reasoning curation on Diabetes dataset. 31 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p031_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: An example of step-by-step reasoning obtained by direct reasoning curation on Homeloan dataset. 32 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p032_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: An example of delexicalized step-by-step reasoning curated by ReSS on the Diabetes dataset. C. Hyperparameters C.1. Decision Tree For the Decision Tree baseline, we perform grid search over the following hyperparameter space: • max depth ∈ {4, 5, 6, 7} • min samples split ∈ {2, 5, 10, 20} • min samples leaf ∈ {1, 2, 5, 10} • criterion ∈ {gini, entropy} The optimal hyperparameters are selected based on val… view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: Along this decision path, the decision tree assigns a non-diabetic label, which reflects the empirical training label distribution observed in this localized region of the feature space but is wrong. However, every condition along the path corresponds to a well-established risk factor for diabetes according to the domain knowledge. In contrast, our fine-tuned LLM generates a rationale that faithfully foll… view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Ablation study with delexicalized features, conducted without augmented reasoning data. Results are averaged over three random seeds. E.3. Ablation Studies on Conducting RL after ReSS The results are shown in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p037_13.png] view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Direct RL vs. ReSS (w/o aug.) + RL [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p037_14.png] view at source ↗
Figure 16
Figure 16. Figure 16: shows the sufficiency and necessity curves on Diabetes and AD. For ReSS, masking unused features results in only minor accuracy changes, while masking explanation-referenced features leads to a sharp and monotonic performance drop, indicating strong explanation necessity. In contrast, DRC+SFT consistently exhibits substantially weaker necessity. On Diabetes, masking features referenced by the explanation … view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Tabular data remains prevalent in high-stakes domains such as healthcare and finance, where predictive models are expected to provide both high accuracy and faithful, human-understandable reasoning. While symbolic models offer verifiable logic, they lack semantic expressiveness. Meanwhile, general-purpose LLMs often require specialized fine-tuning to master domain-specific tabular reasoning. To address the dual challenges of scalable data curation and reasoning consistency, we propose ReSS, a systematic framework that bridges symbolic and neural reasoning models. ReSS leverages a decision-tree model to extract instance-level decision paths as symbolic scaffolds. These scaffolds, alongside input features and labels, guide an LLM to generate grounded natural-language reasoning that strictly adheres to the underlying decision logic. The resulting high-quality dataset is used to fine-tune a pretrained LLM into a specialized tabular reasoning model, further enhanced by a scaffold-invariant data augmentation strategy to improve generalization and explainability. To rigorously assess faithfulness, we introduce quantitative metrics including hallucination rate, explanation necessity, and explanation sufficiency. Experimental results on medical and financial benchmarks demonstrate that ReSS-trained models improve traditional decision trees and standard fine-tuning approaches up to $10\%$ while producing faithful and consistent reasoning

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper proposes ReSS, a framework that fits a decision tree on tabular data, extracts instance-level decision paths as symbolic scaffolds, uses these (with features and labels) to prompt an LLM to generate grounded natural-language reasoning strictly adhering to the tree logic, augments the resulting dataset in a scaffold-invariant manner, and fine-tunes a pretrained LLM on it. Three new quantitative faithfulness metrics (hallucination rate, explanation necessity, explanation sufficiency) are introduced to evaluate the outputs. Experiments on medical and financial tabular benchmarks are claimed to show up to 10% accuracy gains over both the original decision trees and standard LLM fine-tuning while maintaining faithful reasoning.

Significance. If the empirical gains and the faithfulness metrics prove robust, the work would offer a concrete, scalable route to combine the verifiable logic of symbolic models with the semantic flexibility of LLMs for high-stakes tabular prediction, directly addressing the accuracy-interpretability tension in healthcare and finance.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and §4] Abstract and §4 (experimental results): the central claim of up to 10% improvement over decision trees and standard fine-tuning is stated without any description of the benchmarks, baseline implementations, statistical tests, number of runs, or how the faithfulness metrics were operationalized and validated; these omissions make the empirical support for the framework unverifiable and load-bearing for the paper's contribution.
  2. [§3] §3 (ReSS framework): the assumption that instance-level decision-tree paths serve as scaffolds that are simultaneously restrictive enough to enforce logical faithfulness and permissive enough to allow semantically useful reasoning (and accuracy gains) is not accompanied by details on prompt construction, adherence enforcement during generation, or ablation studies showing that the scaffolds do not simply cause paraphrasing or introduce undetected inconsistencies; the three proposed metrics cannot be assessed for sufficiency without this information.
minor comments (1)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract and introduction would benefit from explicit definitions or equations for the three faithfulness metrics rather than only naming them.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback. The comments identify key areas where additional detail will improve verifiability and methodological transparency. We address each point below and commit to revisions that strengthen the paper without altering its core claims.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and §4] Abstract and §4 (experimental results): the central claim of up to 10% improvement over decision trees and standard fine-tuning is stated without any description of the benchmarks, baseline implementations, statistical tests, number of runs, or how the faithfulness metrics were operationalized and validated; these omissions make the empirical support for the framework unverifiable and load-bearing for the paper's contribution.

    Authors: We agree that the abstract and §4 require expanded description to make the empirical results verifiable. While the manuscript identifies the benchmarks as medical and financial tabular datasets and the baselines as decision trees plus standard LLM fine-tuning, explicit details on run counts, statistical tests, and metric definitions are insufficiently prominent. In revision we will (1) update the abstract to name the benchmark categories and note the 10% gain range, (2) add a dedicated experimental-setup paragraph in §4 listing number of runs (with seed variation), significance testing procedure, and precise operationalization of each faithfulness metric together with its validation protocol. These additions will directly address the verifiability concern. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§3] §3 (ReSS framework): the assumption that instance-level decision-tree paths serve as scaffolds that are simultaneously restrictive enough to enforce logical faithfulness and permissive enough to allow semantically useful reasoning (and accuracy gains) is not accompanied by details on prompt construction, adherence enforcement during generation, or ablation studies showing that the scaffolds do not simply cause paraphrasing or introduce undetected inconsistencies; the three proposed metrics cannot be assessed for sufficiency without this information.

    Authors: The manuscript provides a high-level description of prompt construction in §3.2 and places the full template in the appendix, together with a post-generation consistency filter. However, we acknowledge that explicit ablation results and a more granular account of adherence enforcement are absent. In the revision we will expand §3 with the exact prompt template, the rule-based verifier used for adherence, and new ablation experiments that isolate the scaffold component (showing accuracy and hallucination changes when scaffolds are removed). These ablations will also serve as additional validation for the three faithfulness metrics, demonstrating that the scaffolds contribute measurable semantic value beyond paraphrasing. revision: partial

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full rationale

The paper describes a forward pipeline: fit a decision tree on tabular data, extract instance-level paths as scaffolds, use them to prompt an LLM for grounded reasoning text, curate a dataset, apply scaffold-invariant augmentation, fine-tune a pretrained LLM, and evaluate predictive accuracy plus new faithfulness metrics (hallucination rate, necessity, sufficiency) on medical/financial benchmarks. None of these steps reduce by construction to prior fitted quantities; the reported up-to-10% gains are empirical comparisons against baselines, the faithfulness metrics are defined separately from the training objective, and no load-bearing self-citation or uniqueness theorem is invoked in the provided text. The central claims therefore remain independently falsifiable on external test sets.

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axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Decision trees produce instance-level paths that capture the essential decision logic for the tabular task.
    Invoked when scaffolds are extracted to guide LLM generation.
  • domain assumption An LLM prompted with a symbolic scaffold will produce natural-language text that strictly respects the tree logic.
    Central premise of the data-curation step.
invented entities (1)
  • ReSS framework no independent evidence
    purpose: Systematic bridge between symbolic decision paths and neural language reasoning for tabular data.
    Newly proposed end-to-end method.

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