VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Smit Jivani
dblp:421/4094
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0003-1743-055XORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Language models and text generation · 100% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Data models and query languages · 100% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › decoding
constrained decoding |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Reliable Answers for Recurring Questions: Boosting Text-to-SQL Accuracy with Template Constrained Decoding · Proc. ACM Manag. Data 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › decoding › constrained decoding
grammar-constrained decoding |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Reliable Answers for Recurring Questions: Boosting Text-to-SQL Accuracy with Template Constrained Decoding · Proc. ACM Manag. Data 2025 |
Data models and query languages › natural language interface › natural language interface to database
text-to-SQL |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | Reliable Answers for Recurring Questions: Boosting Text-to-SQL Accuracy with Template Constrained Decoding · Proc. ACM Manag. Data 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation › natural language understanding › sentence pair modeling
natural language inference |
0.3 | 1 | 2025 | Reliable Answers for Recurring Questions: Boosting Text-to-SQL Accuracy with Template Constrained Decoding · Proc. ACM Manag. Data 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
natural language inference · 1.7large language model · 1.7grammar-constrained decoding · 1.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Reliable Answers for Recurring Questions: Boosting Text-to-SQL Accuracy with Template Constrained DecodingabstractLarge language models (LLMs) have revolutionized Text-to-SQL generation, allowing users to query structured data using natural language with growing ease. Yet, real-world deployment remains challenging, especially in complex or unseen schemas, due to inconsistent accuracy and the risk of generating invalid SQL. We introduce Template Constrained Decoding (TeCoD), a system that addresses these limitations by harnessing the recurrence of query patterns in labeled workloads. TeCoD converts historical NL-SQL pairs into reusable templates and introduces a robust template selection module that uses a fine-tuned natural language inference model to match or reject queries efficiently. Once the template is selected, TeCoD enforces it during SQL generation through grammar-constrained decoding, implemented via a novel partitioned strategy that ensures both syntactic validity and efficiency. Together, these components yield up to 36% higher execution accuracy than in-context learning (ICL) and 2.2× lower latency on matched queries. Smit Jivani, Saravam Maheshwari, Sunita Sarawagi |
Proc. ACM Manag. Data | 1 |