Reward-SQL: Boosting Text-to-SQL via Stepwise Execution-Aware Reasoning and Process-Supervised Rewards
Summary: Reward-SQL introduces CoCTE, progressively composing SQL with execution-validated intermediate views and structured CTEs. Its entropy-weighted, execution-aware process reward model supervises both RL training and inference, improving accuracy, interpretability, and cross-domain generalization. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 26 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Yuxin Zhang (Renmin University of China)
- 2. Meihao Fan (Renmin University of China)
- 3. Ju Fan (Renmin University of China)
- 4. Mingyang Yi (Renmin University of China)
- 5. Yuyu Luo (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
- 6. Guoliang Li (Tsinghua University)
- 7. Bin Wu (Alibaba)
- 8. Wenchao Zhou (Alibaba)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{zhang_sigmod26,
title = {{Reward-SQL: Boosting Text-to-SQL via Stepwise Execution-Aware Reasoning and Process-Supervised Rewards}},
author = {Zhang, Yuxin and Fan, Meihao and Fan, Ju and Yi, Mingyang and Luo, Yuyu and Li, Guoliang and Wu, Bin and Zhou, Wenchao},
series = {{SIGMOD} '26},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
doi = {10.1145/3802105},
url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3802105},
year = {2026}
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| 7,292 | AutoPrep: Natural Language Question-Aware Data Preparation with a Multi-Agent Framework | 2025 | VLDB | 5.5484494e-05 |
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| 163 | Text-to-SQL Empowered by Large Language Models: A Benchmark Evaluation | 2024 | VLDB | 0.00027456647 |
| 501 | CodeS: Towards Building Open-source Language Models for Text-to-SQL | 2024 | SIGMOD | 0.00017239952 |
| 1,789 | OmniSQL: Synthesizing High-quality Text-to-SQL Data at Scale | 2025 | VLDB | 9.628035e-05 |
| 1,852 | ScienceBenchmark: A Complex Real-World Benchmark for Evaluating Natural Language to SQL Systems | 2024 | VLDB | 9.4935131e-05 |
| 2,216 | Few-shot Text-to-SQL Translation using Structure and Content Prompt Learning | 2023 | SIGMOD | 8.8249841e-05 |
| 3,358 | Combining Small Language Models and Large Language Models for Zero-Shot NL2SQL | 2024 | VLDB | 7.3650961e-05 |
| 7,292 | AutoPrep: Natural Language Question-Aware Data Preparation with a Multi-Agent Framework | 2025 | VLDB | 5.5484494e-05 |
| 9,242 | Natural Language to SQL: State of the Art and Open Problems | 2025 | VLDB | 5.1864799e-05 |
| 10,939 | DeepPrep: An LLM-Powered Agentic System for Autonomous Data Preparation | 2026 | VLDB | 4.9605343e-05 |
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