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Combining Small Language Models and Large Language Models for Zero-Shot NL2SQL

Summary: ZeroNL2SQL: fine-tuned SLMs (with novel database serialization and question-aware schema alignment) generate SQL sketches, then LLMs fill missing clauses and values. Multi-level value matching plus execution-based selection yields SOTA zero-shot NL2SQL (+5.5–20% execution accuracy). (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
13497
Venue
VLDB
Year
2024
Pagerank
5.835596e-05
Overall Rank
4,908 | 65.90%
DOI
10.14778/3681954.3681960

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