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When translating natural language questions into SQL queries to answer questions from a database, contemporary semantic parsing models struggle to generalize to unseen database schemas. The generalization challenge lies in (a) encoding the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Bailin Wang , Richard Shin , Xiaodong Liu , Oleksandr Polozov , Matthew Richardson

Translating natural language questions into SQL queries, known as text-to-SQL, is a long-standing research problem. Effective text-to-SQL synthesis can become very challenging due to (i) the extensive size of database catalogs (descriptions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Shayan Talaei , Mohammadreza Pourreza , Yu-Chen Chang , Azalia Mirhoseini , Amin Saberi

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly contributed to the progress of the Text-to-SQL task. A common requirement in many of these works is the post-correction of SQL queries. However, the majority of this…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Chaofan Li , Yingxia Shao , Yawen Li , Zheng Liu

In Natural Language Processing (NLP), one of the most important tasks is text-to-SQL semantic parsing, which focuses on enabling users to interact with the database in a more natural manner. In recent years, text-to-SQL has made significant…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Saleh Almohaimeed , Saad Almohaimeed , Mansour Al Ghanim , Liqiang Wang

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language interfaces for databases, particularly in text-to-SQL conversion. However, current approaches often generate unreliable outputs when faced with ambiguity or insufficient…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Kaiwen Chen , Yueting Chen , Xiaohui Yu , Nick Koudas

Supervised Causal Learning (SCL) has shown promise in causal discovery by framing it as a supervised learning problem. However, it suffers from significant out-of-distribution generalization challenges. We reveal three limitations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zizhen Deng , Jiaru Zhang , Rui Ding , Huang Bojun , Jinzhuo Wang , Qiang Fu , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

Text-to-SQL tasks have gained attractive improvements since the release of ChatGPT. Among them, agent-based frameworks have been widely used in this field. However, the impact of data-centric strategies on text-to-SQL tasks has rarely been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Yuanzhen Xie , Liu Ye , Jiqun Chu , Mochi Gao , Hehuan Liu , Yunzhi Tan , Bo Hu , Zang Li

Text-to-SQL parsing tackles the problem of mapping natural language questions to executable SQL queries. In practice, text-to-SQL parsers often encounter various challenging scenarios, requiring them to be generalizable and robust. While…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Chang Gao , Bowen Li , Wenxuan Zhang , Wai Lam , Binhua Li , Fei Huang , Luo Si , Yongbin Li

Translating natural language into SQL (Test2SQL) is a longstanding challenge at the intersection of natural language understanding and structured data access. While large language models (LLMs) have significantly improved fluency in SQL…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Zhewei Yao , Guoheng Sun , Lukasz Borchmann , Gaurav Nuti , Zheyu Shen , Minghang Deng , Bohan Zhai , Hao Zhang , Ang Li , Yuxiong He

Realistic text-to-SQL workflows often require joining multiple tables. As a result, accurately retrieving the relevant set of tables becomes a key bottleneck for end-to-end performance. We study an open-book setting where queries must be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Hassan Soliman , Vivek Gupta , Dan Roth , Iryna Gurevych

Text-to-SQL systems enable users to interact with structured databases using natural language, eliminating the need for specialized programming knowledge. In this work, we introduce GEMMA-SQL, a lightweight and efficient text-to-SQL model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Hari Mohan Pandey , Anshul Gupta , Subham Sarkar , Minakshi Tomer , Schneider Johannes , Yan Gong

Mechanistic interpretability research faces a gap between analyzing simple circuits in toy tasks and discovering features in large models. To bridge this gap, we propose text-to-SQL generation as an ideal task to study, as it combines the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Abir Harrasse , Philip Quirke , Clement Neo , Dhruv Nathawani , Luke Marks , Amir Abdullah

Recent advances in zero-shot text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis have achieved high-quality speech generation for unseen speakers, but most systems remain unsuitable for real-time applications because of their offline design. Current streaming…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Hui Wang , Yifan Yang , Shujie Liu , Jinyu Li , Lingwei Meng , Yanqing Liu , Jiaming Zhou , Haoqin Sun , Yan Lu , Yong Qin

Generative language models have shown significant potential in single-turn Text-to-SQL. However, their performance does not extend equivalently to multi-turn Text-to-SQL. This is primarily due to generative language models' inadequacy in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Bingfeng Chen , Shaobin Shi , Yongqi Luo , Boyan Xu , Ruichu Cai , Zhifeng Hao

There are many recent advanced developments for the Text-to-SQL task, where the Picard model is one of the the top performing models as measured by the Spider dataset competition. However, bringing Text-to-SQL systems to realistic use-cases…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Irene Manotas , Octavian Popescu , Ngoc Phuoc An Vo , Vadim Sheinin

The central challenge of reasoning-intensive retrieval lies in identifying implicitreasoning relationships between queries and documents, rather than superficial se-mantic or lexical similarity. The contrastive learning paradigm is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Guangzhi Wang , Yinghao Jiao , Zhi Liu

Frequently-Asked-Question (FAQ) retrieval provides an effective procedure for responding to user's natural language based queries. Such platforms are becoming common in enterprise chatbots, product question answering, and preliminary…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Sourav Dutta , Haytham Assem , Edward Burgin

Production machine translation relies overwhelmingly on encoder-decoder Seq2Seq models, yet reinforcement learning approaches to MT fine-tuning have largely targeted decoder-only LLMs at $\geq$7B parameters, with limited systematic study of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Ernesto Garcia-Estrada , Carlos Escolano , José A. R. Fonallosa

Efficient querying and analysis of large tabular datasets remain significant challenges, especially for users without expertise in programming languages like SQL. Text-to-SQL approaches have shown promising performance on benchmark data;…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Yipeng Zhang , Chen Wang , Yuzhe Zhang , Jacky Jiang

Research in Text-to-SQL conversion has been largely benchmarked against datasets where each text query corresponds to one correct SQL. However, natural language queries over real-life databases frequently involve significant ambiguity about…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Adithya Bhaskar , Tushar Tomar , Ashutosh Sathe , Sunita Sarawagi