Abstract: To leverage the advantages of LLM in addressing challenges in the Text-to-SQL task, we present XiYan-SQL, an innovative framework effectively generating and utilizing multiple SQL candidates ...

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Abstract: Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have significantly improved text-to-SQL systems. However, most datasets and LLM-based methods tend to focus narrowly on SQL generation, ...

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