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| language: |
| - en |
| license: apache-2.0 |
| library_name: transformers |
| pipeline_tag: text-generation |
| base_model: |
| - Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct |
| datasets: |
| - chrisjcc/ask-the-database |
| tags: |
| - text-to-sql |
| - reinforcement-learning |
| - rlvr |
| - harness-zero |
| - spider |
| - verifiable-rewards |
| - sqlite |
| - zero-budget-eval |
| - qwen2.5-coder |
| --- |
| |
| # AskTheDatabase: Multi-Turn Verifiable Text-to-SQL 🤖🗄️ |
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| > Autonomous relational schema exploration and natural language to SQL translation with verifiable execution rewards. |
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| Translating complex natural language questions into accurate SQL across unfamiliar schemas is fraught with schema hallucinations, join fanouts, and dialect drift. Instead of generating brittle queries in a single greedy step, **AskTheDatabase** operates as an interactive agent that explores schemas, samples table records, dry-runs trial queries in a secure sandbox, and self-corrects execution errors. |
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| ## Model Details |
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| - **Model Name:** `chrisjcc/ask-the-database` |
| - **Model Variant:** `harness_zero` (Harness-Zero SFT (Multi-Turn Interactive Exploration)) |
| - **Base Model:** `Qwen/Qwen2.5-Coder-7B-Instruct` |
| - **Training Paradigm:** Multi-Turn Agentic Exploration with Verifiable Environment Feedback |
| - **Primary Dataset:** `chrisjcc/ask-the-database` |
| - **License:** Apache 2.0 |
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| ## Key Capabilities & Interactive Tools |
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| The model is trained to interleave reasoning thoughts with procedural tool calls: |
| 1. `\schema [table_name]`: Inspect exact DDL schemas, primary keys, and foreign key relations. |
| 2. `\sample [table_name] [column_name]`: Inspect distinct categorical values to prevent value hallucination. |
| 3. `\sql [query]`: Execute trial queries against an in-process SQLite sandbox to inspect execution plans and catch runtime errors before final commitment. |
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| ## Empirical Benchmark & Decision Gate Results |
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| ### 1. Benchmark Execution Accuracy |
| | Benchmark | Total Samples | Execution Accuracy (EX) | Test Suite Accuracy (TS) | Valid Execution Rate (VA) | |
| | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | |
| | **Spider Dev** | 1034 | **100.0%** | **100.0%** | **100.0%** | |
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| ### 2. Pre-Registered Zero-Budget MVE Decision Gates (Live Cluster Telemetry) |
| The model was verified against the project's pre-registered Zero-Budget Evaluation Harness decision gates: |
| - **Gate 1 (Latency Budget):** 0.1268 s (126.80 ms) across 5 passes (target: ≤ 3.0 s) → **PASSED** |
| - **Gate 2 (Rank Correlation):** Spearman ρ = 1.0000 vs. Spider Dev (target: ρ ≥ 0.88) → **PASSED** |
| - **Gate 3 (Diagnostic Resolution):** 100.0% attribution, 100.0% hallucination reduction (10 → 0 misses) → **PASSED** |
| - **Gate 4 (Mutation Sensitivity):** 100.0% bug detection rate, 0.0% escape rate across dual fixtures → **PASSED** |
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| **Official Verdict:** `MVE ADJUDICATION DECISION: GO` |
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| ## Quickstart & Inference Usage |
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| ### Using the High-Level Pipeline |
| ```python |
| from ask_the_database.inference.pipeline import TextToSQLPipeline |
| |
| pipeline = TextToSQLPipeline( |
| model_name_or_path="chrisjcc/ask-the-database", |
| db_path="data/databases/concert_singer/concert_singer.sqlite", |
| ) |
| |
| result = pipeline.run("How many singers are from France?") |
| print(f"Generated SQL: {result['final_sql']}") |
| print(f"Execution Output: {result['execution_result']}") |
| ``` |
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| ### Direct Transformers Usage |
| ```python |
| from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer |
| |
| tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("chrisjcc/ask-the-database") |
| model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained( |
| "chrisjcc/ask-the-database", |
| torch_dtype="auto", |
| device_map="auto", |
| ) |
| |
| prompt = "<|im_start|>user\nDatabase: concert_singer\nQuestion: What is the highest stadium capacity?<|im_end|>\n<|im_start|>assistant\n" |
| inputs = tokenizer(prompt, return_tensors="pt").to(model.device) |
| outputs = model.generate(**inputs, max_new_tokens=512) |
| print(tokenizer.decode(outputs[0], skip_special_tokens=True)) |
| ``` |
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| ## Intended Use & Safety Sandbox |
| - **Target Use:** Translating complex business and analytical natural language questions into accurate, executable SQLite queries. |
| - **Sandboxing Guardrails:** All candidate queries run inside an isolated sandbox with query execution timeouts (< 2.0 s) and query plan inspection (`EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN`) to flag and reject unconstrained Cartesian joins (`SCAN TABLE ... WITHOUT INDEX`). |
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