Nabil: A Text-to-SQL Model Based on Brain-Inspired Computing Techniques and Large Language Modeling

Feng Zhou, Shijing Hu, Xiaozheng Du, Nan Li, Tongming Zhou, Yanni Zhao, Sitong Shang, Xufeng Ling, Huaizhong Zhu. 2025. Electronics.

Read the paper · doi:10.3390/electronics14193910

What this paper does with SQLancer

QPG is described once in related work: the paper notes that query plan guidance was proposed to test database systems fully automatically and was applied to SQLite, TiDB and CockroachDB. The subject of this paper is query generation from natural language rather than testing, so the citation is background and nothing of SQLancer's is used. Nabil is a text-to-SQL model combining brain-inspired computing techniques with large language modeling, translating natural-language questions into SQL queries. Its related-work section surveys work on database systems, including automated testing. Written by claude-opus-5 from the 1 place this paper refers to SQLancer. The quotations below are the paper's own words, stored verbatim when the text was extracted.

How it was classified

uses infrastructure — no

SQLancer is cited as related work; no reuse of its code, generator or workload is described.

extends technique — no

No SQLancer technique is extended; the citation is background.

compares with — no

No empirical comparison against SQLancer or one of its oracles is reported.

describes as state of the art — no

The text does not describe SQLancer as the state of the art.

SQLancer publications it cites (1)

Bibliography entries that resolved to a SQLancer publication, or to a paper by one of the project's authors. A sentence citing one of these numbers is a reference to SQLancer even when it never writes the name.

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20	Ba, J.; Rigger, M. Testing database engines via query plan guidance. In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Melbourne, Australia, 14–20 May 2023; IEEE: New Yo...	sqlancer publication · QPG

Every place it refers to SQLancer (1)

1 sentence, each stored verbatim from the extracted text with where it was found and how. “Citation marker” means the sentence names no tool at all and was reached through a reference number that resolved to a SQLancer publication.

Id	Sentence	Found by	Where
M1	proposed query plan guidance (QPG) to fully automatically test errors in database systems and applied it to three database systems: SQLite, TiDB, and CockroachDB [ 20].	technique definition	2 Related Works page 4

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