TL;DR: We present ReFoRCE, a Text-to-SQL agent that leads the Spider 2.0 leaderboard—the most challenging Text-to-SQL benchmark where even advanced models like GPT-4o score around 10%. ReFoRCE tackles real-world deployment issues such as massive schemas, SQL dialect diversity, and complex queries. It uses table compression to handle long contexts, format restriction for accurate SQL generation, and iterative column exploration for better schema understanding. A self-refinement pipeline with...
