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
arXiv Computation and Language
3d ago

GRIPS: An Empirical Study of Pre-SQL Grounding Information for SQL Generation

The paper introduces GRIPS, a three‑stage method that extracts structured pre‑SQL grounding information—such as table, column, value, and relation links—to guide text‑to‑SQL generation. Experiments on TempTabQA‑C and BIRD show that GRIPS‑Adaptive outperforms baseline SQL Static in 18 of 20 settings, boosting average accuracy by 11.8 percentage points and cutting model‑call token usage by 47.8%. The study demonstrates that explicit grounding improves accuracy and efficiency, while adding more pre‑SQL data does not always help.

By Ekata Mitra, Yufei Tao, Kamalamalini Nagasundaram, Ameeta Agrawal
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

Enabling Knowledge Graph Understanding at Scale with the EXplore Your Graphs ENgine (EXYGEN)

The paper introduces EXYGEN, a framework that enables conversational access to large knowledge graphs by combining VoID descriptions, ShEx schemas, retrieved triples, and example question‑query pairs in a retrieval‑augmented generation pipeline. On the SciQA benchmark, this approach achieves an exact‑match score of 0.419 without fine‑tuning any large language model, and shows that larger general‑purpose LLMs can outperform smaller code‑specialized ones when provided sufficient context. To scale metadata generation for very large KGs, the authors propose a predicate‑coverage‑aware parallel graph sampling strategy that preserves structural diversity, reduces runtime by over 80× on OpenCitations Meta and GESIS, and is the only tractable method for obtaining complete metadata on ORKG.

By Harshdeep Singh, Yurui Zhu, Giovanni Colavizza, Matteo Romanello