Weak-to-Strong Prompts with Lightweight-to-Powerful LLMs for High-Accuracy, Low-Cost, and Explainable Data Transformation
Summary: MegaTran turns underspecified data-transformation requests into structured prompts with a lightweight LLM, then uses a powerful LLM for code generation. Checklist-based reflection and LazyRAG improve correctness, explainability, and cost efficiency, yielding 2.2–26.1% accuracy gains. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
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Authors
- 1. Changlun Li (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
- 2. Chenyu Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
- 3. Yuyu Luo (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
- 4. Ju Fan (Renmin University of China)
- 5. Nan Tang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
BibTeX Citation
@article{li_vldb25,
title = {{Weak-to-Strong Prompts with Lightweight-to-Powerful LLMs for High-Accuracy, Low-Cost, and Explainable Data Transformation}},
author = {Li, Changlun and Yang, Chenyu and Luo, Yuyu and Fan, Ju and Tang, Nan},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '25},
volume = {18},
number = {8},
pages = {2371--2384},
doi = {10.14778/3742728.3742734},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3742728.3742734},
year = {2025}
}
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