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SQL-o1: A Self-Reward Heuristic Dynamic Search Method for Text-to-SQL

Lyu, Shuai, Luo, Haoran, Ou, Zhonghong, Zhu, Yifan, Shang, Xiaoran, Qin, Yang, Song, Meina

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

The Text-to-SQL(Text2SQL) task aims to convert natural language queries into executable SQL queries. Thanks to the application of large language models (LLMs), significant progress has been made in this field. However, challenges such as model scalability, limited generation space, and coherence issues in SQL generation still persist. To address these issues, we propose SQL-o1, a Self-Reward-based heuristic search method designed to enhance the reasoning ability of LLMs in SQL query generation. SQL-o1 combines Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) for heuristic process-level search and constructs a Schema-Aware dataset to help the model better understand database schemas. Extensive experiments on the Bird and Spider datasets demonstrate that SQL-o1 improves execution accuracy by 10.8\% on the complex Bird dataset compared to the latest baseline methods, even outperforming GPT-4-based approaches. Additionally, SQL-o1 excels in few-shot learning scenarios and shows strong cross-model transferability. Our code is publicly available at:https://github.com/ShuaiLyu0110/SQL-o1.


What the Assault on Public Education Means for Kids with Disabilities

The New Yorker

President Donald Trump, winner of the Battle of the Billionaires at WrestleMania 23, has maintained close ties with Linda McMahon, the former C.E.O. of World Wrestling Entertainment, for decades. During the President's first term, she served for two years as head of the Small Business Administration, stepping down in 2019 to lead America First Action, a pro-Trump super PAC. Now McMahon is Trump's nominee to run the U.S. Department of Education, although she may appear to lack conventional bona fides for the position. If McMahon is confirmed by the Senate, her odd task will be to take charge of an agency in order to euthanize it. "I told Linda, 'Linda, I hope you do a great job and put yourself out of a job,' " Trump said, on February 4th.


New frontier of AI-powered 'teacher-less' charter schools get mixed reviews from state officials

FOX News

Yurts founder and CEO Ben Van Roo breaks down concerns over DeepSeek on'The Will Cain Show.' Artificial intelligence may be the new frontier for childhood schooling, but the idea of teacherless classrooms has received mixed reviews from state education officials. Unbound Academy, a Texas-based institution billing itself as the nation's first virtual, tuition-free charter school for grades 4 through 8, reportedly employs AI to teach students in a way that can be geared toward the individual student without "frustration[s]" sometimes present in traditional schooling. While such schools have seen success in being approved to educate students in Arizona, Unbound was formally rejected by the Pennsylvania Department of Education in a letter obtained by Fox News Digital. In a letter to an Unbound Academy official with a Lancaster office address, Secretary Angela Fitterer said her office has found "deficiencies" in all five criteria needed for approval to teach Keystone State students. Pennsylvania's Charter School law denotes a school must demonstrate sustainable support for the cyber charter school plan from teachers, parents and students.


Charter school is replacing teachers with AI

Popular Science

An Austin-based national charter school network offers K-12 students an AI-guided education. Operating under a model called "2 Hour Learning," a company of the same name advertises accelerated pace, app-based classes designed to teach students at "2X" the speed of a traditional classroom, whatever that means. Parents are promised that the system works for 80-90 percent of children, and that students consistently rank in the NWEA's 90th percentile. Apart from generating top-ranking national standardized test takers, however, one of 2 Hour Learning's other explicit goals is the removal of teachers from classrooms. "Imagine starting a school and declaring, 'We won't have any academic teachers.' We did exactly that!" reads a portion of the company's white paper.


Betsy DeVos Champions For-Profit Schools That Are Deceiving Taxpayers and Vulnerable Students

Mother Jones

Last school year, Ohio's cash-strapped education department paid Capital High $1.4 million in taxpayer dollars to teach students on the verge of dropping out. But on a Thursday in May, students' workstations in the storefront charter school run by for-profit EdisonLearning resembled place settings for a dinner party where most guests never arrived. In one room, empty chairs faced 25 blank computer monitors. Just three students sat in a science lab down the hall, and nine more in an unlit classroom, including one youth who sprawled out, head down, sleeping. Only three of the more than 170 students on Capital's rolls attended class the required five hours that day, records obtained by ProPublica show. Almost two-thirds of the school's students never showed up; others left early. Nearly a third of the roster failed to attend class all week. Some stay away even longer. ProPublica reviewed 38 days of Capital High's records from late March to late May and found six students skipped 22 or more days straight with no excused absences. Two were gone the entire 38-day period. Under state rules, Capital should have unenrolled them after 21 consecutive unexcused absences. Though the school is largely funded on a per-student basis, the no-shows didn't hurt the school's revenue stream.


The newest battlefield in L.A. Unified's enrollment war is a boys school

Los Angeles Times

Christina Fuller was down to the wire. With less than one week to go before the new school year, the Willowbrook mother who works in students services at Santa Monica College still didn't know where her son would start sixth grade. So one night last week, she brought Robert, a quiet 11-year-old wearing a Minecraft T-shirt, to an orientation she stumbled upon online for the district's newest offering: the Boys Academic Leadership Academy. The school, known as BALA, emphasizes science, technology, arts, engineering and math, or STEAM education. Classes at the Washington Prep campus in South L.A. begin Tuesday.


Steve Jobs' widow is giving two L.A. teachers 10 million to start a school for homeless and foster youth

Los Angeles Times

Instead of going to school, school will come to you. That's the prize-winning idea behind RISE High, a proposed Los Angeles charter high school designed to serve homeless and foster children whose educations are frequently disrupted. Los Angeles educators Kari Croft, 29, and Erin Whalen, 26, who came up with the idea, won 10 million in XQ: The Super School Project, a high school redesign competition funded by Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Steve Jobs. RISE is one of 10 10-million winning school projects nationwide. Winners receive the prize money over five years.