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New ARCS benchmark reveals text-to-SQL model struggles with ambiguity

A new benchmark called ARCS has been developed to address the challenge of ambiguity in text-to-SQL systems. This benchmark features naturally occurring ambiguities over real-world databases, complete with annotations for valid ambiguity points, interpretations, and corresponding SQL queries. Initial experiments with ARCS show that current text-to-SQL models struggle with ambiguity, with the GPT-6 Sol model achieving only 51% execution accuracy and open-source models performing below 27%. The proposed structured disambiguation paradigm aims to resolve these ambiguities through explicit, constrained interactions rather than conversational clarification. AI

IMPACT Highlights the significant challenges in developing robust text-to-SQL systems that can handle real-world ambiguity, potentially guiding future research in this area.

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New ARCS benchmark reveals text-to-SQL model struggles with ambiguity

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Yihao Hu, Yanlin Feng, Naoki Otani, Nikita Bhutani ·

    ARCS: Towards Precise Text-to-SQL via Structured Disambiguation

    arXiv:2610.09396v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As text-to-SQL systems move beyond demonstrations toward real-world deployment, ambiguity in user questions becomes a primary source of errors. Such ambiguities are often subtle, domain- or data-specific, and can silently cause syst…