Query and Conquer: Execution-Guided SQL Generation

Łukasz Borchmann, Marek Wydmuch

Query and Conquer: Execution-Guided SQL Generation: 17 upvotes on Hugging Face Daily Papers, #11 of 27 papers on 2025-04-01. Day-by-day upvote history.

We propose a novel approach for generating complex outputs that significantly improves accuracy in text-to-SQL tasks. Our method leverages execution results to select the most semantically consistent query from multiple candidates, enabling smaller, cost-effective models to surpass computationally intensive reasoning methods such as o1, o3-mini, and DeepSeek R1 while reducing inference cost by as much as 30 times. It integrates effortlessly with existing models, offering a practical and scalable pathway to state-of-the-art SQL generation.

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