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17 papers

cs.CL2026

EdgeLM: Edge Demonstrations for Language Models' Table Understanding

Soroush Omidvartehrani, Mohammadamin Habibollah, Mohammadreza Daviran +1

Large language models (LLMs) perform table-centric prediction through in-context learning, making demonstration selection critical to performance. Existing retrieval methods priori…

cs.DB2026

LDI: Localized Data Imputation for Text-Rich Tables

Soroush Omidvartehrani, Davood Rafiei

Missing values are pervasive in real-world tabular data and can significantly impair downstream analysis. Imputing them is especially challenging in text-rich tables, where depende…

cs.CL2026

FlexSQL: Flexible Exploration and Execution Make Better Text-to-SQL Agents

Quang Hieu Pham, Yang He, Ping Nie +5

Text-to-SQL over large analytical databases requires navigating complex schemas, resolving ambiguous queries, and grounding decisions in actual data. Most current systems follow a…

cs.DB2026

SynSQL: Synthesizing Relational Databases for Robust Evaluation of Text-to-SQL Systems

Mohammadamin Habibollah, Davood Rafiei

Evaluating text-to-SQL systems remains largely fragile: correctness is typically judged by executing predicted and gold SQL queries on a single static database, even though the sam…

cs.CL2026

Which English Do LLMs Prefer? Triangulating Structural Bias Towards American English in Foundation Models

Mir Tafseer Nayeem, Davood Rafiei

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains, yet they expose only limited language settings, most notably "English (US)," despite the global diver…

cs.DB2026

SQL-Exchange: Transforming SQL Queries Across Domains

Mohammadreza Daviran, Brian Lin, Davood Rafiei

We introduce SQL-Exchange, a framework for mapping SQL queries across different database schemas by preserving the source query structure while adapting domain-specific elements to…