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Text-to-SQL Benchmarks Must Reflect Real-World Data Complexity

By Meridian48 News Desk · Summarised from Hacker News ·

Current text-to-SQL benchmarks often use clean, simple schemas that don't represent messy real-world databases. A new article argues that benchmarks must include challenges like ambiguous column names, missing values, and complex joins. Without such realism, progress in natural language interfaces for databases may be misleading.

Meridian48 take
This critique is valid but not new; the real test is whether benchmark designers will adopt these harder scenarios or stick with easier metrics.
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