arXiv Computation and Language August 24, 2026 By Yuxuan Zhu, Tengjun Jin, Yoojin Choi, Daniel Kang

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

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