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SafeQL Refines LLM-Generated SQL Queries Using Database Feedback

Researchers have introduced SafeQL, a novel approach to enhance the reliability and efficiency of large language models (LLMs) in generating SQL queries from natural language. Unlike previous methods that often regenerate entire queries upon encountering errors, SafeQL leverages the database management system (DBMS) as an active guide. It interprets DBMS feedback to incrementally repair only the erroneous parts of a query, formulating each refinement as a guided search within a safe query space. Experiments on the Bird and Spider benchmarks demonstrate that SafeQL significantly outperforms regeneration-based methods in terms of execution accuracy and efficiency. AI

IMPACT Enhances LLM reliability for database interaction, potentially improving developer productivity and data access.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new research paper proposing a novel method for LLM-based Text-to-SQL. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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SafeQL Refines LLM-Generated SQL Queries Using Database Feedback

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Geonho Lee, Min-Soo Kim ·

    SafeQL: Search-based Refinement for Safe and Efficient LLM-based Text-to-SQL

    arXiv:2608.09260v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have advanced Text-to-SQL by enabling natural language interfaces to databases without task-specific fine-tuning. However, existing LLM-based systems remain unreliable, often generating SQL queries tha…