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most citedSQL-PaLM: Improved Large Language Model Adaptation for Text-to-SQL (extended)

29 citations · 64 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.IR2026

MMEB-V3: Measuring the Performance Gaps of Omni-Modality Embedding Models

Haohang Huang, Xuan Lu, Mingyi Su +9

Multimodal embedding models aim to map heterogeneous inputs, such as text, images, videos, and audio, into a shared semantic space. However, existing methods and benchmarks remain…

cs.CV2025

VISTA: A Test-Time Self-Improving Video Generation Agent

Do Xuan Long, Xingchen Wan, Hootan Nakhost +3

Despite rapid advances in text-to-video synthesis, generated video quality remains critically dependent on precise user prompts. Existing test-time optimization methods, successful…

cs.LG2025

MLE-STAR: Machine Learning Engineering Agent via Search and Targeted Refinement

Jaehyun Nam, Jinsung Yoon, Jiefeng Chen +3

Agents based on large language models (LLMs) for machine learning engineering (MLE) can automatically implement ML models via code generation. However, existing approaches to build…

cs.AI2024★ 2 cited

SQL-GEN: Bridging the Dialect Gap for Text-to-SQL Via Synthetic Data And Model Merging

Mohammadreza Pourreza, Ruoxi Sun, Hailong Li +3

Recent advances in Text-to-SQL have largely focused on the SQLite dialect, neglecting the diverse landscape of SQL dialects like BigQuery and PostgreSQL. This limitation is due to…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

CROME: Cross-Modal Adapters for Efficient Multimodal LLM

Sayna Ebrahimi, Sercan O. Arik, Tejas Nama +1

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate remarkable image-language capabilities, but their widespread use faces challenges in cost-effective training and adaptation. Ex…

cs.CL2024

Matryoshka-Adaptor: Unsupervised and Supervised Tuning for Smaller Embedding Dimensions

Jinsung Yoon, Raj Sinha, Sercan O Arik +1

Embeddings from Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as critical components in various applications, particularly for information retrieval. While high-dimensional embeddings…

cs.LG2024

Learned Feature Importance Scores for Automated Feature Engineering

Yihe Dong, Sercan Arik, Nathanael Yoder +1

Feature engineering has demonstrated substantial utility for many machine learning workflows, such as in the small data regime or when distribution shifts are severe. Thus automati…

cs.CL2024★ 9 cited

Chain of Agents: Large Language Models Collaborating on Long-Context Tasks

Yusen Zhang, Ruoxi Sun, Yanfei Chen +3

Addressing the challenge of effectively processing long contexts has become a critical issue for Large Language Models (LLMs). Two common strategies have emerged: 1) reducing the i…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

Learning to Clarify: Multi-turn Conversations with Action-Based Contrastive Self-Training

Maximillian Chen, Ruoxi Sun, Tomas Pfister +1

Large language models (LLMs), optimized through human feedback, have rapidly emerged as a leading paradigm for developing intelligent conversational assistants. However, despite th…

cs.LG2024★ 4 cited

Large Language Models Can Automatically Engineer Features for Few-Shot Tabular Learning

Sungwon Han, Jinsung Yoon, Sercan O Arik +1

Large Language Models (LLMs), with their remarkable ability to tackle challenging and unseen reasoning problems, hold immense potential for tabular learning, that is vital for many…

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

Mitigating Object Hallucination in MLLMs via Data-augmented Phrase-level Alignment

Pritam Sarkar, Sayna Ebrahimi, Ali Etemad +3

Despite their significant advancements, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) often generate factually inaccurate information, referred to as hallucination. In this work, we add…

cs.CL2024★ 12 cited

Chain-of-Table: Evolving Tables in the Reasoning Chain for Table Understanding

Zilong Wang, Hao Zhang, Chun-Liang Li +8

Table-based reasoning with large language models (LLMs) is a promising direction to tackle many table understanding tasks, such as table-based question answering and fact verificat…

cs.CL2023

TextGenSHAP: Scalable Post-hoc Explanations in Text Generation with Long Documents

James Enouen, Hootan Nakhost, Sayna Ebrahimi +3

Large language models (LLMs) have attracted huge interest in practical applications given their increasingly accurate responses and coherent reasoning abilities. Given their nature…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

SQLPrompt: In-Context Text-to-SQL with Minimal Labeled Data

Ruoxi Sun, Sercan Ö. Arik, Rajarishi Sinha +4

Text-to-SQL aims to automate the process of generating SQL queries on a database from natural language text. In this work, we propose "SQLPrompt", tailored to improve the few-shot…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Effective Large Language Model Adaptation for Improved Grounding and Citation Generation

Xi Ye, Ruoxi Sun, Sercan Ö. Arik +1

Large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable advancements in natural language understanding and generation. However, one major issue towards their widespread deployment in…

cs.LG2023

COSTAR: Improved Temporal Counterfactual Estimation with Self-Supervised Learning

Chuizheng Meng, Yihe Dong, Sercan Ö. Arık +2

Estimation of temporal counterfactual outcomes from observed history is crucial for decision-making in many domains such as healthcare and e-commerce, particularly when randomized…

cs.LG2023

Search-Adaptor: Embedding Customization for Information Retrieval

Jinsung Yoon, Sercan O Arik, Yanfei Chen +1

Embeddings extracted by pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) have significant potential to improve information retrieval and search. Beyond the zero-shot setup in which they ar…

cs.CL2023★ 29 cited

SQL-PaLM: Improved Large Language Model Adaptation for Text-to-SQL (extended)

Ruoxi Sun, Sercan Ö. Arik, Alex Muzio +8

Text-to-SQL, the process of translating natural language into Structured Query Language (SQL), represents a transformative application of large language models (LLMs), potentially…