GBV-SQL: Guided Generation and SQL2Text Back-Translation Validation for Multi-Agent Text2SQL (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing frameworks for Text2SQL generation still have a critical semantic gap . a dedicated validator translates generated SQL back into natural language and checks whether its logic is aligned with the original question. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that introduces Guided Generation with SQL2Text Back-translation Validation . dedicated validator translates generated SQL back into natural language and checks whether logic is aligned with original question . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves 63.23% execution accuracy on the BIRD benchmark and 90.42% on repaired BIDR dev. |
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