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most citedA Survey of Text-to-SQL in the Era of LLMs: Where are we, and where are we going?

50 citations · 55 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.AI2026

SkillAdam: Stable and Efficient Skill Evolution for Agents

Gaoyuan Li, Meihao Fan, Yizhe Liu +7

Agent skills provide a lightweight way to equip frozen language-model agents with domain knowledge and procedural guidance, yet obtaining high-quality skills remains costly and dif…

cs.DB2026

DA-Studio: An Agentic System for End-to-End Data Analysis

Yizhe Liu, Shaolei Zhang, Ju Fan

Real-world data analysis is a multi-step process over heterogeneous inputs rather than merely producing a final answer. A practical system should autonomously organize multi-step w…

cs.AI2026

CODA-BENCH: Can Code Agents Handle Data-Intensive Tasks?

Yuxin Zhang, Ju Fan, Meihao Fan +2

Advanced agents are increasingly demonstrating the potential to operate as autonomous engineers, creating a growing demand for evaluation benchmarks that capture the complexity of…

cs.DB2026

TACO: A Benchmark for Open-Domain Text-to-SQL with Ambiguous and Cross-Database Queries

Chao Deng, Ju Fan, Yuyu Luo +7

Text-to-SQL aims to translate natural language questions into executable SQL queries over structured databases. Existing benchmarks mainly focus on closed-domain settings with pred…

cs.DB2026

DataEvolver: Automatic Data Preparation for Large Language Models through Multi-Level Self-Evolving

Chao Deng, Shaolei Zhang, Ju Fan +1

High-quality training data is essential to large language models (LLMs) and typically requires extensive and costly manual curation. Automatic data preparation systems support reus…

cs.DB2026

DeepPrep: An LLM-Powered Agentic System for Autonomous Data Preparation

Meihao Fan, Ju Fan, Yuxin Zhang +7

Data preparation, which aims to transform heterogeneous and noisy raw tables into analysis-ready data, remains a major bottleneck in data science. Recent approaches leverage large…

cs.AI2025★ 2 cited

DeepAnalyze: Agentic Large Language Models for Autonomous Data Science

Shaolei Zhang, Ju Fan, Meihao Fan +2

Autonomous data science, from raw data sources to analyst-grade deep research reports, has been a long-standing challenge, and is now becoming feasible with the emergence of powerf…

cs.CL2025★ 2 cited

Reward-SQL: Boosting Text-to-SQL via Stepwise Execution-Aware Reasoning and Process-Supervised Rewards

Yuxin Zhang, Meihao Fan, Ju Fan +5

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) trained with reinforcement learning (RL) have improved Text-to-SQL performance. However, RL-based approaches still struggle with com…

cs.DB2025

Automatic Database Configuration Debugging using Retrieval-Augmented Language Models

Sibei Chen, Ju Fan, Bin Wu +8

Database management system (DBMS) configuration debugging, e.g., diagnosing poorly configured DBMS knobs and generating troubleshooting recommendations, is crucial in optimizing DB…

cs.DB2024★ 1 cited

A Plug-and-Play Natural Language Rewriter for Natural Language to SQL

Peixian Ma, Boyan Li, Runzhi Jiang +3

Existing Natural Language to SQL (NL2SQL) solutions have made significant advancements, yet challenges persist in interpreting and translating NL queries, primarily due to users' l…

cs.CL2024

AutoPrep: Natural Language Question-Aware Data Preparation with a Multi-Agent Framework

Meihao Fan, Ju Fan, Nan Tang +3

Answering natural language (NL) questions about tables, known as Tabular Question Answering (TQA), is crucial because it allows users to quickly and efficiently extract meaningful…

cs.DB2024★ 50 cited

A Survey of Text-to-SQL in the Era of LLMs: Where are we, and where are we going?

Xinyu Liu, Shuyu Shen, Boyan Li +7

Translating users' natural language queries (NL) into SQL queries (i.e., Text-to-SQL, a.k.a. NL2SQL) can significantly reduce barriers to accessing relational databases and support…