RASAT: Integrating Relational Structures into Pretrained Seq2Seq Model for Text-to-SQL (2022.emnlp-main)
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Jiexing Qi, Jingyao Tang, Ziwei He, Xiangpeng Wan, Yu Cheng, Chenghu Zhou, Xinbing Wang, Quanshi Zhang, Zhouhan Lin
| Challenge: | Experimental results show RASAT can leverage a variety of relational structures while inheriting the pretrained parameters from the T5 model. |
| Approach: | They propose a Transformer seq2seq architecture augmented with relation-aware self-attention that leverages relational structures while inheriting pretrained parameters from the T5 model. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can leverage relational structures while inheriting pretrained parameters from the T5 model effectively. |
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