• Computer Science > Databases [Submitted on 11 Feb 2026] Title:APEX-SQL: Talking to the data via Agentic Exploration for Text-to-SQL View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:Text-to-SQL systems powered by Large Language Models have excelled on academic benchmarks but struggle in complex enterprise environments. • The primary limitation lies in their reliance on static schema representations, which fails to resolve semantic ambiguity and scale effectively to large, complex databases. • To address this, we propose APEX-SQL, an Agentic Text-to-SQL Framework that shifts the paradigm from passive translation to agentic exploration. • Our framework employs a hypothesis-verification loop to ground model reasoning in real data. • In the schema linking phase, we use logical planning to verbalize hypotheses, dual-pathway pruning to reduce the search space, and parallel data profiling to validate column roles against real data, followed by global synthesis to ensure topological connectivity. • For SQL generation, we introduce a deterministic mechanism to retrieve exploration directives, allowing the agent to effectively explore data distributions, refine hypotheses, and generate semantically accurate SQLs.
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- Computer Science > Databases [Submitted on 11 Feb 2026] Title:APEX-SQL: Talking to the data via Agentic Exploration for Text-to-SQL View PDF HTML (experimental)Abstract:Text-to-SQL systems powered by Large Language Models have excelled on academic benchmarks but struggle in complex enterprise environments. The primary limitation lies in their reliance on static schema representations, which fails to resolve semantic ambiguity and scale effectively to large, complex databases. To address this, we propose APEX-SQL, an Agentic Text-to-SQL Framework that shifts the paradigm from passive translatio
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