SPOC-SQL introduces a stage-wise approach to Text-to-SQL, breaking the task into four sequential subtasks aligned with standard SQL execution logic. It applies fine-grained preference optimization at key decision points and a structured decomposition strategy, enabling explicit intermediate representations for stage-wise intervention and correction. The method yields more controllable and reliable SQL generation, with experiments showing that incorporating stage-wise human knowledge consistently improves performance.
By Yingnan Chen, Chun Ding, Tianshi Xu, Xu Yang, Si Wu
arXiv:2606. 15598v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-SQL aims to translate natural language questions into executable SQL queries over structured databases, enabling non-expert users to access data intuitively.
By Feng Lyu, Jinfeng Cen, Sijing Duan, Hao Wu, Shucheng Li, Weixu Zhang, Haolun Wu
arXiv:2505. 04671v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) trained with reinforcement learning (RL) have improved Text-to-SQL performance.
By Yuxin Zhang, Meihao Fan, Ju Fan, Mingyang Yi, Yuyu Luo, Guoliang Li, Bin Wu, Wenchao Zhou
The paper proposes a fine‑tuning‑free listwise selector for Text‑to‑SQL systems that replaces traditional learning objectives with inference‑time strategies. It introduces reusable structured memories (MaP‑SQL) that encode mappings from natural language to schema elements, SQL operations, and expected outputs, and uses these memories to evaluate candidate queries. To reduce positional bias, the method aggregates rankings across multiple input permutations, optimizing inference cost through execution results and pointwise scoring. The approach achieves higher selection accuracy, fewer unnecessary comparisons, and outperforms the prior state‑of‑the‑art R^3‑SQL on the BIRD‑dev benchmark while using fewer tokens.
By Yeonseok Jeong, Soyoung Yoon, Seongjun Lee, Seung-won Hwang
arXiv:2606. 06825v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning has recently shown promise in improving large language models for Text-to-SQL generation, yet existing methods typically optimize one-shot rewards defined over a single SQL state.
By Shihao Zhang, Xiaoman Wang, Yuan Liu, Yunshi Lan, Weining Qian
arXiv:2607. 22622v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent Text-to-SQL methods rely heavily on reasoning-centric paradigms such as Chain-of-Thought (CoT), achieving substantial gains on complex benchmarks at the cost of high inference-time overhead.
By Soohyuk Jang, Jiheum Yeom, Nohil Park, Sang Hun Kim, Yoonyoung Choi, Kiwook Bae, Sungroh Yoon
arXiv:2606. 30851v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Improving the reliability of large language models (LLMs) at inference time is a central challenge in structured reasoning tasks such as Text-to-SQL.
By Mattia Tritto, Giuseppe Farano, Dario Di Palma, Gaetano Rossiello, Fedelucio Narducci, Dharmashankar Subramanian, Tommaso Di Noia
arXiv:2608.29345v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While recent Large Language Model (LLM)-based text-to-SQL systems achieve impressive performance on standard benchmarks, they struggle when user querie...
By Yunfan Zhou, Qiming Shi, Yizhou Yang, Di Weng, Yingcai Wu
arXiv:2606. 17821v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in translating natural language to SQL, yet existing methods still falter on complex queries requiring multi-step, data-aware reasoning.
By Esteban Schafir, Xu Zheng, Hojat Allah Salehi, Zhuomin Chen, Mo Sha, Wei Cheng, Dongsheng Luo
arXiv:2608. 03794v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming database interaction paradigms, evolving from simple query translators to autonomous database administrators (DBAs).
By Shunfan Zheng, Dongsheng Shi, Yue Li, Xin Yi, Linlin Wang, Gerard de Melo
arXiv:2607. 22624v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recently, there have been several works in the Text-to-SQL domain that utilize Small Language Models (SLMs) for training.
By Minghao Yang, Yanjun Xu
arXiv:2601. 05451v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in text-to-SQL have been driven by larger models, better datasets, and new training methods like RLVR.
By Marko Sterbentz, Kevin Cushing, Cameron Barrie, Kristian J. Hammond