Retrieval in the SQL setting has largely been studied as the task of finding, within a large collection of SQL statements, the statement that answers a natural-language question. At scale, however, a more fundamental retrieval problem precedes generation: schema retrieval, identifying the tables and columns a question requires in a database that may contain thousands of them, far more than fit in a model's context.
arXiv:2602. 16720v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text-to-SQL systems powered by Large Language Models have excelled on academic benchmarks but struggle in complex enterprise environments.
By Bowen Cao, Weibin Liao, Yushi Sun, Dong Fang, Haitao Li, Wai Lam
Practical AI systems increasingly need to turn long, heterogeneous documents into queryable relational databases, not isolated spreadsheets. In domains such as finance, healthcare, education, transportation, and enterprise operations, downstream workflows rely on normalized schemas, entity identities, keys, cross-table relationships, and integrity constraints for analytics, compliance, auditing, and SQL-backed decision making.
arXiv:2608. 08459v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Practical AI systems increasingly need to turn long, heterogeneous documents into queryable relational databases, not isolated spreadsheets.
By Zhuowen Liang, Zhengxuan Zhang, Jiayang Wang, Jiazhuo Chen, Nan Tang
arXiv:2606. 28387v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Enterprise text-to-SQL systems often fail before SQL is generated: the model receives the wrong schema context.
By Adarsh Agrawal, Shashank Indukuri
arXiv:2607. 14494v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Complex knowledge base question answering (KBQA) is commonly approached through either information retrieval over a question-specific subgraph or semantic parsing into an executable logical form.
By Yiming Zhang, Koji Tsuda