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LLM/Agent-as-Data-Analyst: A Survey

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  • Haebom

Author

Zirui Tang, Weizheng Wang, Zihang Zhou, Yang Jiao, Bangrui Xu, Boyu Niu, Xuanhe Zhou, Guoliang Li, Yeye He, Wei Zhou, Yitong Song, Cheng Tan, Xue Yang, Bin Wang, Conghui He, Xiaoyang Wang, Fan Wu

LLM/Agent-as-Data-Analyst: Technology Trends and Future Challenges

Outline

Data analytics leveraging large-scale language models (LLMs) and agent technology (LLM/Agent-as-Data-Analyst) is making a significant impact in both academia and industry. Compared to traditional rule-based or small-scale model-based approaches, agent-based LLMs enable complex data understanding, natural language interfaces, semantic analysis capabilities, and autonomous pipeline orchestration. This paper presents five key design goals for intelligent data analytics agents: semantic-based design, modality-hybrid integration, autonomous pipelines, tool-based workflows, and open-world task support. Furthermore, we review LLM-based techniques for (i) structured data (e.g., tabular query answering for relational data and NL2GQL for graph data), (ii) semi-structured data (e.g., markup language understanding and semi-structured table modeling), (iii) unstructured data (e.g., chart understanding, document understanding, programming language vulnerability detection), and (iv) heterogeneous data (e.g., data search and modality alignment for data lakes). Finally, we present remaining challenges and offer insights and practical directions for advancing LLM/Agent-based data analytics.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
LLM/Agent technology enables complex data understanding, natural language interfaces, semantic analysis, and autonomous pipeline building.
We demonstrate broad applicability by examining LLM-based techniques for various data types (structured, semi-structured, unstructured, and heterogeneous data).
We present five core design goals for intelligent data analysis agents to guide their development.
Limitations:
The paper does not provide specific technical implementation details or experimental results (since it is a summary).
This may lack specific details about remaining tasks and future directions (since it is a summary).
Discussion of the practical limitations of LLM/Agent technology (e.g., computational cost, performance, reliability) may be limited (as this is a summary).
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