The Power of Constraints in Natural Language to SQL Translation
Summary: REDSQL: plug-and-play refiner that uses constraint-driven extraction of relation summaries and data profiles over the entire DB to detect and fix semantic SQL errors beyond LLM context limits. Yields large NL2SQL gains (e.g., +8.8% CODES, +11.1% PURPLE on BIRD). (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Tonghui Ren (Fudan University; Tencent Cloud)
- 2. Chen Ke (Fudan University)
- 3. Yuankai Fan (China Telecom; Fudan University; TeleAI)
- 4. Yinan Jing (Fudan University)
- 5. Zhenying He (Fudan University)
- 6. Kai Zhang (Fudan University)
- 7. X. Sean Wang (Fudan University)
BibTeX Citation
@article{ren_vldb25,
title = {{The Power of Constraints in Natural Language to SQL Translation}},
author = {Ren, Tonghui and Ke, Chen and Fan, Yuankai and Jing, Yinan and He, Zhenying and Zhang, Kai and Wang, X. Sean},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '25},
volume = {18},
number = {7},
pages = {2097--2111},
doi = {10.14778/3734839.3734847},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3734839.3734847},
year = {2025}
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10,738 | OpenSQL: Data-Efficient Text-to-SQL for Open-Source LLMs via Synthesized Intermediate Supervision | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
| 10,780 | SafeQL: Search-based Refinement for Safe and Efficient LLM-based Text-to-SQL | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9793485e-05 |
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