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New Text-to-SQL Framework Learns When to Reason, Boosting Efficiency

Researchers have developed AutoThinkSQL, a new framework designed to optimize Text-to-SQL models by enabling them to dynamically decide when to use complex reasoning (Chain-of-Thought) and when to bypass it for simpler queries. This approach integrates auto-thinking into both Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) processes. When applied to the Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B model, AutoThinkSQL demonstrated consistent improvements on the Spider and BIRD benchmarks while significantly reducing output tokens and latency compared to models that always employ Chain-of-Thought. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more efficient and cost-effective deployment of Text-to-SQL systems by reducing unnecessary computational overhead for simpler queries.

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New Text-to-SQL Framework Learns When to Reason, Boosting Efficiency

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Soohyuk Jang, Jiheum Yeom, Nohil Park, Sang Hun Kim, Yoonyoung Choi, Kiwook Bae, Sungroh Yoon ·

    Learning When to Reason for Text-to-SQL via SFT and DPO

    arXiv:2607.22622v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent Text-to-SQL methods rely heavily on reasoning-centric paradigms such as Chain-of-Thought (CoT), achieving substantial gains on complex benchmarks at the cost of high inference-time overhead. However, a large fraction of rea…