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New BAP-SQL method optimizes agentic text-to-SQL under budget constraints

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Researchers have developed BAP-SQL, a novel approach for agentic text-to-SQL systems that optimizes observation planning within a budget. This method estimates query risk and rewrites SQL to improve efficiency, particularly under tight budget constraints. Experiments show BAP-SQL achieves higher success rates and uses fewer tokens compared to standard supervised fine-tuning, with benefits diminishing as model capabilities and budgets increase. AI

IMPACT This research could lead to more efficient and cost-effective AI agents for database querying, particularly in resource-constrained environments.

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New BAP-SQL method optimizes agentic text-to-SQL under budget constraints

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Chong Peng, Pin Qian, Su Wang, Yihang Chen, Varun Sah ·

    BAP-SQL: Budget-Aware Observation Planning for Agentic Text-to-SQL

    arXiv:2608.02876v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tool-using agents do not merely consume observations: their actions determine what arrives next. In agentic text-to-SQL, a broad query can spend context and database work before useful evidence appears, while post-hoc compression ca…

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