FINER-SQL: Boosting Small Language Models for Text-to-SQL

arXiv:2605.03465v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models have driven major advances in Text-to-SQL generation. However, they suffer from high computational cost, long latency, and data privacy concerns, which make them impractical for many real-world applications. A natural alternative is to use small language models (SLMs), which enable efficient and private on-premise deployment. Yet, SLMs often struggle with weak reasoning and poor instruction following. Conventional reinforcem