The paper introduces FlockMTL, an extension for database management systems that deeply integrates large language models and retrieval‑augmented generation into DuckDB. It provides model‑driven scalar and aggregate functions, cost‑based optimizations like batching and caching, and new SQL DDL abstractions (PROMPT and MODEL) to treat LLMs as first‑class schema objects. These features aim to simplify the development of knowledge‑intensive analytical applications by reducing the effort required to orchestrate heterogeneous data systems and manage LLM context.
By Anas Dorbani, Sunny Yasser, Jimmy Lin, Amine Mhedhbi
arXiv:2609.05760v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We present RAGMark, a modular benchmarking framework for advanced Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems targeting small-scale multi-GPU enviro...
By Zlatan Feric, Amir Taherin, Bin Ren, Yanzhi Wang, Jennifer Dy, David Kaeli
arXiv:2609.08307v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used as backends for intelligent web services, but serving them across the edge continuum requires bala...
By Maysam Khatib, Moysis Symeonides, Demetris Trihinas, George Pallis, Marios D. Dikaiakos
text2ql is an open‑source Python framework that enables natural language querying of databases without being limited to SQL, without requiring large language model inference at query time, and with a runtime confidence score for each generated query. It uses a language‑agnostic Intermediate Representation (QueryIR) and a pluggable renderer that supports both SQL and GraphQL through a single seven‑stage detection pipeline. In deterministic mode, it achieves 100% execution accuracy with a median latency of 3.2 ms, while the LLM‑backed mode reaches 62‑70% exact match and 84‑91% execution accuracy on benchmark samples.
text2ql is an open‑source Python framework that enables natural language querying of databases without relying on large language models at query time. It uses a language‑agnostic intermediate representation (QueryIR) and a pluggable renderer to support both SQL and GraphQL targets through a single seven‑stage detection pipeline. In deterministic mode, it achieves 100% execution accuracy with a median latency of 3.2 ms, while the LLM‑backed mode delivers 62‑70% exact match and 84‑91% execution accuracy on benchmark samples.
By Ritesh Kumar
Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) and low-bit quantization are now standard tools for adapting language models under tight compute budgets, yet their interaction is most often studied on billion-parameter models where the design space is expensive to explore. We ask a complementary question: on a specific, fully reproducible 60M-parameter encoder-decoder model (T5-small) and a single-table text-to-SQL benchmark (WikiSQL), how much task accuracy does each efficiency knob actually cost?