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Query rewrite transforms SQL queries into semantically equivalent forms that run more efficiently. Existing approaches mainly rely on predefined rewrite rules, but they handle a limited subset of queries and can cause performance…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Yuyang Song , Hanxu Yan , Jiale Lao , Yibo Wang , Yufei Li , Yuanchun Zhou , Jianguo Wang , Mingjie Tang

Query rewrite, which aims to generate more efficient queries by altering a SQL query's structure without changing the query result, has been an important research problem. In order to maintain equivalence between the rewritten query and the…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Zhaodonghui Li , Haitao Yuan , Huiming Wang , Gao Cong , Lidong Bing

When complex SQL queries suffer slow executions despite query optimization, DBAs typically invoke automated query rewriting tools to recommend ``lean'' equivalents that are conducive to faster execution. The rewritings are usually achieved…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Sriram Dharwada , Himanshu Devrani , Jayant Haritsa , Harish Doraiswamy

Query rewriting is an effective technique for refining poorly written queries before they reach the query optimizer. However, manual rewriting is not scalable, as it is prone to errors and requires deep expertise. Traditional query…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Jie Liu , Barzan Mozafari

Query rewriting plays a vital role in enhancing conversational search by transforming context-dependent user queries into standalone forms. Existing approaches primarily leverage human-rewritten queries as labels to train query rewriting…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Fanghua Ye , Meng Fang , Shenghui Li , Emine Yilmaz

With this work, we describe the concept of intent-based query rewriting and present a first viable solution. The aim is to allow rewrites to alter the structure and syntactic outcome of an original query while keeping the obtainable…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Gianna Lisa Nicolai , Patrick Hansert , Sebastian Michel

Query rewriting refers to an established family of approaches that are applied to underspecified and ambiguous queries to overcome the vocabulary mismatch problem in document ranking. Queries are typically rewritten during query processing…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Abhijit Anand , Venktesh V , Vinay Setty , Avishek Anand

Query rewrite is essential for optimizing SQL queries to improve their execution efficiency without changing their results. Traditionally, this task has been tackled through heuristic and learning-based methods, each with its limitations in…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Zhaoyan Sun , Xuanhe Zhou , Guoliang Li , Xiang Yu , Jianhua Feng , Yong Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) play powerful, black-box readers in the retrieve-then-read pipeline, making remarkable progress in knowledge-intensive tasks. This work introduces a new framework, Rewrite-Retrieve-Read instead of the previous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Xinbei Ma , Yeyun Gong , Pengcheng He , Hai Zhao , Nan Duan

Query rewriting, the process of transforming queries into semantically equivalent yet more efficient variants, is crucial for database optimization. Existing solutions predominantly rely on either rule-based heuristics or Large Language…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Jiahui Li , Tongwang Wu , Yuren Mao , Rong Kang , Tieying Zhang , Yunjun Gao

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in creative tasks such as storytelling and E-mail generation. However, as LLMs are primarily trained on final text results rather than intermediate revisions, it might…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Lei Shu , Liangchen Luo , Jayakumar Hoskere , Yun Zhu , Yinxiao Liu , Simon Tong , Jindong Chen , Lei Meng

The task of Text-to-SQL enables anyone to retrieve information from SQL databases using natural language. While this task has made substantial progress, the two primary evaluation metrics - Execution Accuracy (EXE) and Exact Set Matching…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Benjamin G. Ascoli , Yasoda Sai Ram Kandikonda , Jinho D. Choi

We develop a query answering system, where at the core of the work there is an idea of query answering by rewriting. For this purpose we extend the DL DL-Lite with the ability to support n-ary relations, obtaining the DL DLR-Lite, which is…

Databases · Computer Science 2009-02-11 Mantas Simkus , Evaldas Taroza , Lina Lubyte , Daniel Trivellato , Zivile Norkunaite

The essence of modern e-Commercial search system lies in matching user's intent and available candidates depending on user's query, providing personalized and precise service. However, user's query may be incorrect due to ambiguous input…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Shangyu Chen , Xinyu Jia , Yingfei Zhang , Shuai Zhang , Xiang Li , Wei Lin

Efficient knowledge management plays a pivotal role in augmenting both the operational efficiency and the innovative capacity of businesses and organizations. By indexing knowledge through vectorization, a variety of knowledge retrieval…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Feihu Jiang , Chuan Qin , Kaichun Yao , Chuyu Fang , Fuzhen Zhuang , Hengshu Zhu , Hui Xiong

Query rewriting is essential for database performance optimization, but existing automated rule enumeration methods suffer from exponential search spaces, severe redundancy, and poor scalability, especially when handling complex query plans…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yuan Zhang , Yuxing Chen , Yuekun Yu , Jinbin Huang , Rui Mao , Anqun Pan , Lixiong Zheng , Jianbin Qin

Large Language Models (LLMs) are now widely used for query reformulation and expansion in Information Retrieval, with many studies reporting substantial effectiveness gains. However, these results are typically obtained under heterogeneous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Amin Bigdeli , Radin Hamidi Rad , Hai Son Le , Mert Incesu , Negar Arabzadeh , Charles L. A. Clarke , Ebrahim Bagheri

Query rewriting (QR) is a critical technique in e-commerce search, addressing the lexical gap between user queries and product descriptions to enhance search performance. Existing QR approaches typically fall into two categories:…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Duy A. Nguyen , Rishi Kesav Mohan , Van Yang , Pritom Saha Akash , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

Despite their remarkable natural language understanding capabilities, Large Language Models (LLMs) have been underutilized for retrieval tasks. We present Search-R3, a novel framework that addresses this limitation by adapting LLMs to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Yuntao Gui , James Cheng

Text-to-SQL aims at generating SQL queries for the given natural language questions and thus helping users to query databases. Prompt learning with large language models (LLMs) has emerged as a recent approach, which designs prompts to lead…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Chunxi Guo , Zhiliang Tian , Jintao Tang , Shasha Li , Zhihua Wen , Kaixuan Wang , Ting Wang
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