Papers with text-to-SQL task

8 papers
You Only Read Once (YORO): Learning to Internalize Database Knowledge for Text-to-SQL (2025.naacl-long)

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Challenge: Existing text-to-SQL systems encode the same schema for every question, resulting in unnecessary high inference cost and missing crucial database knowledge.
Approach: They propose a paradigm that directly internalizes database knowledge into the parametric knowledge of a text-to-SQL model during training and eliminates the need for schema encoding during inference.
Outcome: The proposed paradigm significantly reduces the input token length by 66%-98% and outperforms traditional systems on three benchmarks.
SyntaxSQLNet: Syntax Tree Networks for Complex and Cross-Domain Text-to-SQL Task (D18-1)

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Challenge: Existing studies in text-to-SQL do not require generating complex SQL queries with multiple clauses or sub-queries.
Approach: They propose a syntax tree network to address the complex text-to-SQL generation task.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms the current state-of-the-art model by 9.5% on a large text-to-SQL corpus.
LGESQL: Line Graph Enhanced Text-to-SQL Model with Mixed Local and Non-Local Relations (2021.acl-long)

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Challenge: Existing methods to encode text-to-SQL data are node-centric and ignore semantics embedded in the topological structure of edges.
Approach: They propose a Line Graph Enhanced Text-to-SQL model to mine relational features without constructing meta-paths.
Outcome: The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art on the cross-domain text-to-SQL benchmark Spider at the time of writing.
ACT-SQL: In-Context Learning for Text-to-SQL with Automatically-Generated Chain-of-Thought (2023.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Recent studies have focused on the development of semantic parsers within the framework of cross-domain analysis.
Approach: They propose a method to generate auto-CoT exemplars using ACT-SQL and extend it to multi-turn text-to-Sql tasks.
Outcome: The proposed method achieves SOTA performance on the Spider dev set among existing in-context learning approaches.
Spider: A Large-Scale Human-Labeled Dataset for Complex and Cross-Domain Semantic Parsing and Text-to-SQL Task (D18-1)

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Challenge: Existing datasets for semantic parsing are too small in terms of number of programs for training modern data-intensive models.
Approach: They propose a large-scale complex and cross-domain semantic parsing task for a database . they use a dataset with 10,181 questions and 5,693 unique complex SQL queries .
Outcome: The proposed task is different from previous tasks because it uses the same database and program . the best model achieves only 9.7% exact matching accuracy on a database split setting.
CSS: A Large-scale Cross-schema Chinese Text-to-SQL Medical Dataset (2023.findings-acl)

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Challenge: a cross-domain text-to-SQL task aims to parse user questions into SQL on complete unseen databases . a single-domain task evaluates the performance on identical databases based on the same domain .
Approach: They propose a cross-domain text-to-SQL task that parses user questions into SQL on unseen databases.
Outcome: The proposed system can parse user questions into SQL on complete unseen databases.
DTS-SQL: Decomposed Text-to-SQL with Small Large Language Models (2024.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: relying on proprietary Large Language Models poses privacy and cost implications for models.
Approach: They propose a two-stage fine-tuning approach that breaks down the task into two simpler tasks.
Outcome: The proposed method achieves 60.31% execution accuracy on Bird hold-out test set . it is the highest performance among methods using 7B parameter models .
Re-examining the Role of Schema Linking in Text-to-SQL (2020.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Existing text-to-SQL models treat schema linking as a minor component . Existing solutions treat schema as merely a string component based on string matching .
Approach: They build a schema linking corpus based on a Spider text-to-SQL dataset . they find schema linking is the crux for the current text- to-Sql task .
Outcome: The proposed model performs well on the Spider text-to-SQL dataset despite its simplicity.

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