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Large language models (LLMs) know little about enterprise database tables in the private data ecosystem, which substantially differ from web text in structure and content. As LLMs' performance is tied to their training data, a crucial…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Çağatay Demiralp , Fabian Wenz , Peter Baile Chen , Moe Kayali , Nesime Tatbul , Michael Stonebraker

Feature augmentation from one-to-many relationship tables is a critical but challenging problem in ML model development. To augment good features, data scientists need to come up with SQL queries manually, which is time-consuming.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Danrui Qi , Weiling Zheng , Jiannan Wang

In the context of the Text-to-SQL task, table and column descriptions are crucial for bridging the gap between natural language and database schema. This report proposes a method for automatically generating effective database descriptions…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Yingqi Gao , Zhiling Luo

Large language models are typically trained densely: all parameters are updated with respect to all inputs. This requires synchronization of billions of parameters across thousands of GPUs. We introduce a simple but effective method to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Suchin Gururangan , Margaret Li , Mike Lewis , Weijia Shi , Tim Althoff , Noah A. Smith , Luke Zettlemoyer

The growing reliance on data-driven decision-making highlights the need for more intuitive ways to access and analyze information stored in relational databases. However, the requirement of SQL knowledge has long been a significant barrier…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Steve Tueno Fotso

A crucial step in cohort studies is to extract the required cohort from one or more study datasets. This step is time-consuming, especially when a researcher is presented with a dataset that they have not previously worked with. When the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Purity Mugambi , Alexandra Meliou , Madalina Fiterau

Synthetic data generation has emerged as an invaluable solution in scenarios where real-world data collection and usage are limited by cost and scarcity. Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in producing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Anh Nguyen , Sam Schafft , Nicholas Hale , John Alfaro

In recent years, pretrained neural language models (PNLMs) have taken the field of natural language processing by storm, achieving new benchmarks and state-of-the-art performances. These models often rely heavily on annotated data, which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Hoang Van

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in synthetic tabular data generation, yet existing methods struggle to preserve complex feature dependencies, particularly among categorical variables. This work introduces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Andrey Sidorenko

Mathematical reasoning has long been a key benchmark for evaluating large language models. Although substantial progress has been made on math word problems, the need for reasoning over tabular data in real-world applications has been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Shi-Yu Tian , Zhi Zhou , Wei Dong , Kun-Yang Yu , Ming Yang , Zi-Jian Cheng , Lan-Zhe Guo , Yu-Feng Li

Developing high-performing predictive models for large tabular data sets is a challenging task. The state-of-the-art methods are based on expert-developed model ensembles from different supervised learning methods. Recently, automated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Romain Egele , Prasanna Balaprakash , Venkatram Vishwanath , Isabelle Guyon , Zhengying Liu

Data augmentation has attracted a lot of research attention in the deep learning era for its ability in alleviating data sparseness. The lack of labeled data for unseen evaluation databases is exactly the major challenge for cross-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Kun Wu , Lijie Wang , Zhenghua Li , Ao Zhang , Xinyan Xiao , Hua Wu , Min Zhang , Haifeng Wang

The need for Knowledge and Data Discovery Management Systems (KDDMS) that support ad hoc data mining queries has been long recognized. A significant amount of research has gone into building tightly coupled systems that integrate…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Raj P. Gopalan , Tariq Nuruddin , Yudho Giri Sucahyo

Understanding the semantics of tables at scale is crucial for tasks like data integration, preparation, and search. Table understanding methods aim at detecting a table's topic, semantic column types, column relations, or entities. With the…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Madelon Hulsebos , Sneha Gathani , James Gale , Isil Dillig , Paul Groth , Çağatay Demiralp

Leveraging the in-context learning (ICL) capability of Large Language Models (LLMs) for tabular classification has gained significant attention for its training-free adaptability across diverse datasets. Recent advancements, like TabPFN,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yuchen Zeng , Tuan Dinh , Wonjun Kang , Andreas C Mueller

Relational database management systems (RDBMS) are widely used for the storage of structured data. To derive insights beyond statistical aggregation, we typically have to extract specific subdatasets from the database using conventional…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Lingze Zeng , Naili Xing , Shaofeng Cai , Gang Chen , Beng Chin Ooi , Jian Pei , Yuncheng Wu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated strong capabilities in translating natural language into database queries, especially when dealing with complex graph-structured data. However, real-world queries often contain…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Yuchen Tian , Kaixin Li , Hao Chen , Ziyang Luo , Hongzhan Lin , Sebastian Schelter , Lun Du , Jing Ma

Recent research has shown that integrating domain knowledge into deep learning architectures is effective -- it helps reduce the amount of required data, improves the accuracy of the models' decisions, and improves the interpretability of…

Conversational user interfaces powered by large language models (LLMs) have significantly lowered the technical barriers to database querying. However, existing tools still encounter several challenges, such as misinterpretation of user…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Longfei Chen , Shenghan Gao , Shiwei Wang , Ken Lin , Yun Wang , Quan Li

Language models trained with a fixed vocabulary struggle to generalize to novel or out-of-vocabulary words, limiting their flexibility in handling diverse token combinations. Existing dynamic vocabulary approaches attempt to address this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Wei Du , Nuowei Liu , Jie Wang , Jiahao Kuang , Tao Ji , Xiaoling Wang , Yuanbin Wu