# QDA-SQL: Questions Enhanced Dialogue Augmentation for Multi-Turn Text-to-SQL

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10593 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.10593/

## Key facts

- Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 17 of its 34 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 15 Jun 2024.

## Builds on (most cited first, 17 of 17)

- [Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2201.11903/) (2022)
- [Judging LLM-as-a-Judge with MT-Bench and Chatbot Arena](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.05685/) (2023)
- [Self-Refine: Iterative Refinement with Self-Feedback](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.17651/) (2023)
- [QLoRA: Efficient Finetuning of Quantized LLMs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.14314/) (2023)
- [Spider: A Large-Scale Human-Labeled Dataset for Complex and Cross-Domain Semantic Parsing and Text-to-SQL Task](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1809.08887/) (2018)
- [Can LLM Already Serve as A Database Interface? A BIg Bench for Large-Scale Database Grounded Text-to-SQLs](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.03111/) (2023)
- [PICARD: Parsing Incrementally for Constrained Auto-Regressive Decoding from Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.05093/) (2021)
- [CoSQL: A Conversational Text-to-SQL Challenge Towards Cross-Domain Natural Language Interfaces to Databases](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.05378/) (2019)
- [SParC: Cross-Domain Semantic Parsing in Context](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.02285/) (2019)
- [StateFlow: Enhancing LLM Task-Solving through State-Driven Workflows](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.11322/) (2024)
- [SQL-PaLM: Improved Large Language Model Adaptation for Text-to-SQL (extended)](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2306.00739/) (2023)
- [Data Augmentation with Hierarchical SQL-to-Question Generation for Cross-domain Text-to-SQL Parsing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.02227/) (2021)
- [Question Generation from SQL Queries Improves Neural Semantic Parsing](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1808.06304/) (2018)
- [TrustSQL: Benchmarking Text-to-SQL Reliability with Penalty-Based Scoring](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.15879/) (2024)
- [Did You Ask a Good Question? A Cross-Domain Question Intention Classification Benchmark for Text-to-SQL](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2010.12634/) (2020)
- [Augmenting Multi-Turn Text-to-SQL Datasets with Self-Play](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.12096/) (2022)
- [Controllable Data Augmentation for Context-Dependent Text-to-SQL](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2304.13902/) (2023)

## Built on by (most cited first, 5 of 5)

- [DAC: Decomposed Automation Correction for Text-to-SQL](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2408.08779/) (2024)
- [Exploring the Landscape of Text-to-SQL with Large Language Models: Progresses, Challenges and Opportunities](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.23838/) (2025)
- [Evaluating and Enhancing LLMs for Multi-turn Text-to-SQL with Multiple Question Types](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.17867/) (2024)
- [Track-SQL: Enhancing Generative Language Models with Dual-Extractive Modules for Schema and Context Tracking in Multi-turn Text-to-SQL](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.05996/) (2026)
- [Rose-SQL: Role-State Evolution Guided Structured Reasoning for Multi-Turn Text-to-SQL](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2605.03720/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) for specific domain tasks has achieved great success in Text-to-SQL tasks. However, these fine-tuned models often face challenges with multi-turn Text-to-SQL tasks caused by ambiguous or unanswerable questions. It is desired to enhance LLMs to handle multiple types of questions in multi-turn Text-to-SQL tasks. To address this, we propose a novel data augmentation method, called QDA-SQL, which generates multiple types of multi-turn Q&A pairs using LLMs. In QDA-SQL, we introduce a method incorporating validation and correction mechanisms to handle complex multi-turn Text-to-SQL tasks. Experimental results demonstrate that QDA-SQL enables fine-tuned models to exhibit higher performance on SQL statement accuracy and enhances their ability to handle complex, unanswerable questions in multi-turn Text-to-SQL tasks. The generation script and test set are released at https://github.com/mcxiaoxiao/QDA-SQL