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VIDRAFT's NL2SQL Engine Outperforms BIRD Mini-Dev Benchmark

VIDRAFT's Darwin-180B-NL2SQL system has achieved a score of 83.80% on the BIRD Mini-Dev benchmark, surpassing the current top-ranked entry. This text-to-SQL engine, utilizing the Darwin-180B-RSI model without fine-tuning or gold SQL during prediction, demonstrated its capabilities on a challenging dataset of real-world databases. VIDRAFT has also launched a public demo of the engine, which can translate natural language questions into SQL queries and generate reports across various data sources. AI

IMPACT Sets a new high score on a challenging text-to-SQL benchmark, potentially influencing future development in natural language querying of databases.

RANK_REASON Research milestone on a text-to-SQL benchmark with a public demo. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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VIDRAFT's NL2SQL Engine Outperforms BIRD Mini-Dev Benchmark

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · AI OpenFree ·

    VIDRAFT NL2SQL Engine Scores 83.80 on BIRD Mini-Dev, Above the Current #1, and Opens a Public Demo

    <h2> TL;DR </h2> <p>VIDRAFT's text-to-SQL system, <strong>Darwin-180B-NL2SQL</strong>, scored <strong>83.80% execution accuracy (419 of 500)</strong> on <strong>BIRD Mini-Dev (SQLite)</strong>, the official compact leaderboard of BIRD, the most cited text-to-SQL benchmark. The cu…