Reliable Answers for Recurring Questions: Boosting Text-to-SQL Accuracy with Template Constrained Decoding
Summary: Builds reusable NL–SQL templates from labeled workloads and uses a fine-tuned NLI selector to match/reject incoming queries. Enforces chosen template via partitioned grammar-constrained decoding for valid, efficient SQL, yielding up to +36% exec accuracy over ICL and 2.2× lower latency on matched queries. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 11 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Smit Jivani (Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai)
- 2. Sarvam Maheshwari (Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai)
- 3. Sunita Sarawagi (Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{jivani_sigmod26,
title = {{Reliable Answers for Recurring Questions: Boosting Text-to-SQL Accuracy with Template Constrained Decoding}},
author = {Jivani, Smit and Maheshwari, Sarvam and Sarawagi, Sunita},
series = {{SIGMOD} '26},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3769822},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3769822},
year = {2026}
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