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
LIMIT (Less Is More for Instruction Tuning in Text-to-SQL) challenges the belief that large instruction corpora are necessary for effective Text-to-SQL models. The framework uses a four‑stage data‑centric process—difficulty‑aware filtering, chain‑of‑thought synthesis, LLM‑as‑judge quality scoring, and genetic algorithm optimization—to select a compact set of examples that still achieve full schema coverage. On the BIRD and Spider benchmarks, LIMIT’s 796 and 863 samples enable Qwen3‑8B to reach 69.1% and 88.9% execution accuracy, outperforming methods trained on twenty times more data and setting a new state‑of‑the‑art for open‑source approaches.
By Haoyuan Ma, Hengwei Liu, Linjuan Wu, Yongliang Shen, Weiming Lu
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:2603.20004v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Translating natural language questions to SQL queries (Text-to-SQL) is a long-standing problem in database research. Recent efforts have focu...
By Yuxuan Zhu, Tengjun Jin, Yoojin Choi, Daniel Kang
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
arXiv:2608.22651v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Modern text-to-SQL systems have become increasingly elaborate, relying on schema-linking modules, retrieval-augmented prompting, candidate generation,...
By Jian Lu, Haiwei Yu, Raymond M Xiong, Anru Zhang, Danyang Zhuo
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: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
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:2609.20842v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Text-to-SQL translates natural-language questions into executable SQL queries, but open-source large language models still require task-specific post-t...
By Qifeng Cai, Xuanguang Pan, Hao Liang, Chang Xu, Wentao Zhang
arXiv:2608. 15389v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: LLM-based Text-to-SQL progress is reported across heterogeneous benchmarks, backbones, and inference protocols, making cross-system comparison fragile.
By Changruo Zhao, Zujun Peng, Yu Tian, Yuting Liu, Yiyun Su, Huiying Zhu, Luyan Zhang, Heming Zeng
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