用自然语言生成查询计划,突破SQL在大数据分析中的瓶颈
Text to Query Plans for Question Answering on Large Tables
- 将自然语言转为可执行的查询操作序列,避开SQL限制
- 支持主成分分析等复杂分析,处理大规模科学数据表
- 基于大模型迭代构建方案,避免全量数据输入模型
高效查询与分析大型表格数据集仍是重大挑战,尤其对非编程用户而言。现有Text-to-SQL方法虽在基准数据集上表现良好,但继承了SQL在大数据场景下的低效及复杂分析能力有限的问题。本文提出一种新框架,将自然语言查询转化为查询计划,实现于传统数据库之外,支持经典SQL命令的同时规避其固有缺陷。同时,可实现主成分分析、异常检测等复杂分析功能,扩展性优于传统SQL。我们利用大语言模型(LLM)迭代解析查询并构建操作序列,通过逐步执行操作解决计算复杂度问题,直接在数据上执行操作,避免上下文长度限制,无需将整个数据集交由模型处理。在标准数据库和大型科学数据表上的实验验证了该框架在处理海量数据和进行复杂数据分析方面的有效性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Efficient querying and analysis of large tabular datasets remain significant challenges, especially for users without expertise in programming languages like SQL. Text-to-SQL approaches have shown promising performance on benchmark data; however, they inherit SQL's drawbacks, including inefficiency with large datasets and limited support for complex data analyses beyond basic querying. We propose a novel framework that transforms natural language queries into query plans. Our solution is implemented outside traditional databases, allowing us to support classical SQL commands while avoiding SQL's inherent limitations. Additionally, we enable complex analytical functions, such as principal component analysis and anomaly detection, providing greater flexibility and extensibility than traditional SQL capabilities. We leverage LLMs to iteratively interpret queries and construct operation sequences, addressing computational complexity by incrementally building solutions. By executing operations directly on the data, we overcome context length limitations without requiring the entire dataset to be processed by the model. We validate our framework through experiments on both standard databases and large scientific tables, demonstrating its effectiveness in handling extensive datasets and performing sophisticated data analyses.
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