IESR:Efficient MCTS-Based Modular Reasoning for Text-to-SQL with Large Language Models

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Main Authors: Liu, Tao, Lu, Jiafan, Yu, Bohan, Wu, Pengcheng, Haixin, Liu, Xu, Guoyu, Xiangheng, Li, Li, Lixiao, Hou, Jiaming, Shijun, Zhao, Lyu, Xinglin, Zhang, Kunli, Jia, Yuxiang, Zan, Hongyin
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author Liu, Tao
Lu, Jiafan
Yu, Bohan
Wu, Pengcheng
Haixin, Liu
Xu, Guoyu
Xiangheng, Li
Li, Lixiao
Hou, Jiaming
Shijun, Zhao
Lyu, Xinglin
Zhang, Kunli
Jia, Yuxiang
Zan, Hongyin
author_facet Liu, Tao
Lu, Jiafan
Yu, Bohan
Wu, Pengcheng
Haixin, Liu
Xu, Guoyu
Xiangheng, Li
Li, Lixiao
Hou, Jiaming
Shijun, Zhao
Lyu, Xinglin
Zhang, Kunli
Jia, Yuxiang
Zan, Hongyin
contents Text-to-SQL is a key natural language processing task that maps natural language questions to SQL queries, enabling intuitive interaction with web-based databases. Although current methods perform well on benchmarks like BIRD and Spider, they struggle with complex reasoning, domain knowledge, and hypothetical queries, and remain costly in enterprise deployment. To address these issues, we propose a framework named IESR(Information Enhanced Structured Reasoning) for lightweight large language models: (i) leverages LLMs for key information understanding and schema linking, and decoupling mathematical computation and SQL generation, (ii) integrates a multi-path reasoning mechanism based on Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) with majority voting, and (iii) introduces a trajectory consistency verification module with a discriminator model to ensure accuracy and consistency. Experimental results demonstrate that IESR achieves state-of-the-art performance on the complex reasoning benchmark LogicCat (24.28 EX) and the Archer dataset (37.28 EX) using only compact lightweight models without fine-tuning. Furthermore, our analysis reveals that current coder models exhibit notable biases and deficiencies in physical knowledge, mathematical computation, and common-sense reasoning, highlighting important directions for future research. We released code at https://github.com/Ffunkytao/IESR-SLM.
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spellingShingle IESR:Efficient MCTS-Based Modular Reasoning for Text-to-SQL with Large Language Models
Liu, Tao
Lu, Jiafan
Yu, Bohan
Wu, Pengcheng
Haixin, Liu
Xu, Guoyu
Xiangheng, Li
Li, Lixiao
Hou, Jiaming
Shijun, Zhao
Lyu, Xinglin
Zhang, Kunli
Jia, Yuxiang
Zan, Hongyin
Computation and Language
Text-to-SQL is a key natural language processing task that maps natural language questions to SQL queries, enabling intuitive interaction with web-based databases. Although current methods perform well on benchmarks like BIRD and Spider, they struggle with complex reasoning, domain knowledge, and hypothetical queries, and remain costly in enterprise deployment. To address these issues, we propose a framework named IESR(Information Enhanced Structured Reasoning) for lightweight large language models: (i) leverages LLMs for key information understanding and schema linking, and decoupling mathematical computation and SQL generation, (ii) integrates a multi-path reasoning mechanism based on Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) with majority voting, and (iii) introduces a trajectory consistency verification module with a discriminator model to ensure accuracy and consistency. Experimental results demonstrate that IESR achieves state-of-the-art performance on the complex reasoning benchmark LogicCat (24.28 EX) and the Archer dataset (37.28 EX) using only compact lightweight models without fine-tuning. Furthermore, our analysis reveals that current coder models exhibit notable biases and deficiencies in physical knowledge, mathematical computation, and common-sense reasoning, highlighting important directions for future research. We released code at https://github.com/Ffunkytao/IESR-SLM.
title IESR:Efficient MCTS-Based Modular Reasoning for Text-to-SQL with Large Language Models
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05385