arXiv Computation and Language

Human-Level Text-to-SQL via Reinforcement Learning on Verified Data, Without Pipeline Engineering

arXiv AI

Jul 1

Test-Time Verification for Text-to-SQL via Outcome Reward Models

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

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 15

Reward-SQL: Boosting Text-to-SQL via Stepwise Execution-Aware Reasoning and Process-Supervised Rewards

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

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arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 6

RingSQL: Schema-Independent Synthetic Data Generation for Text-to-SQL Reinforcement Learning

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

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arXiv AI

Aug 18

ACTS-SQL: Agentic and Critic-Oriented Tree-Structured SQL Correctness with Large Language Models

arXiv:2608. 15145v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have been increasingly adopted in Text-to-SQL systems, yet SQL errors remain a major obstacle in real-world Text-to-SQL inference pipelines.

By Xinmei Huang, Jie Song, Peng Li, Fuxin Jiang, Jing Zhang, Tieying Zhang, Jianjun Chen, Chenming Liu, Tao Yang, Maoyin Liu, Wenda Li, Hong Chen, Cuiping Li

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arXiv AI

Jul 8

Spider 2.0-AIFunc: Extending Real-World Text-to-SQL to AI-Native SQL Workflows

arXiv:2607. 06229v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Major cloud data platforms now expose large language model capabilities as native SQL functions, enabling analysts to perform classification, filtering, sentiment analysis, extraction, similarity search, and aggregation within ordinary SQL queries.

By Tianyang Liu, Canwen Xu, Fangyu Lei, Nikki Lijing Kuang, Jixuan Chen, Tao Yu, Julian McAuley, Zhewei Yao, Yuxiong He

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arXiv AI

Aug 13

DexterSQL: Deep Schema Exploration and Rule-based Correction for Text-to-SQL Generation

arXiv:2608. 11889v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Prompting-based (\textit{i}.

By Anik Pramanik, Murat Kantarcioglu, Vincent Oria, Shantanu Sharma

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 31

Noisy Data is Destructive to Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards

arXiv:2603. 16140v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has driven recent capability advances of large language models across various domains.

By Yuxuan Zhu, Daniel Kang

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arXiv AI

Jul 28

CHS-SQL: A Text-to-SQL approach based on Confidence-Guided Heuristic Search Schema Linking process

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

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arXiv AI

Jul 24

EvoSQL: Memory-Augmented Critic-Generator Co-Evolution for Text-to-SQL

arXiv:2607. 20489v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-to-SQL has advanced rapidly with large language models, but complex database queries still require reasoning beyond one-shot generation, including multi-step decomposition, execution-based diagnosis, and targeted correction.

By Jiawei Zhou, Jianwei Wang, Chenyu Zhou, Chaojian Shi, Ming Dong, Kai Wang

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arXiv AI

Jun 11

TAHOE: Text-to-SQL with Automated Hint Optimization from Experience

arXiv:2606. 12387v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have democratized database access through Text-to-SQL, but moving from prototypes to production remains difficult.

By Zhiyi Chen, Jie Song, Peng Li

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

Integrating Reasoning and Generalization in Text-to-SQL via Self-Enhanced Fine-Tuning

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

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arXiv AI

Jul 9

What Predicts Correctness in Text-to-SQL? A Selective-Prediction Study

arXiv:2607. 06799v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evaluating uncertainty in AI-generated SQL queries requires estimating whether a query is correct, where correct means it executes to the same result as a human-written reference.

By Robert Richardson

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