I am a PhD student at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), supervised by Professor Yuyu Luo. Previously, I obtained my bachelorβs degree from the Southern University of Science and Technology. My current research interest includes Text-to-SQL translation and evaluation.
π₯ News
- 2025.10 Β ππ We proposed DeeyEye-SQL, a software-engineering-inspired Text-to-SQL framework, achieving 73.5% EX on BIRD-Dev and 89.8% EX on Spider-Test using a ~30B LLM without any fine-tuning!
- 2025.09 Β ππ Our nvBench 2.0 paper has benn accepted by NIPSβ25, a new benchmark designed to evaluate Text2VIS systems in scenarios involving ambiguous queries.
- 2025.07 Β ππ Our DeepVIS paper has benn accepted by VISβ25, an interactive visual interface that tightly integrates with the CoT reasoning process, allowing users to inspect reasoning steps, identify errors, and make targeted adjustments to improve visualization outcomes.
- 2025.07 Β ππ Our NL2SQL-Survey paper has benn accepted by TKDEβ25! For a comprehensive overview of the latest Text-to-SQL techniques and practical guidance, we warmly invite you to read our continuously updated NL2SQL Handbook.
- 2025.07 Β ππ Our EllieSQL paper has benn accepted by COLMβ25, a complexity-aware routing framework that assigns queries to suitable SQL generation pipelines based on estimated complexity.
- 2025.05 Β ππ Our NL2SQL-BUGs paper has benn accepted by KDDβ25, the first benchmark specifically designed to detect and categorize semantic errors in NL2SQL translation.
- 2025.05 Β ππ Our Alpha-SQL paper has been accepted by ICMLβ25, see you in Vancouver, Canada!
- 2025.04 Β ππ We proposed Advances and Challenges in Foundation Agents, a survey covers the design, evaluation, and improvement of intelligent agents based on modular, brain-inspired architectures, focusing on self-enhancement, multi-agent collaboration, and safety in AI systems.
- 2025.04 Β ππ We proposed EllieSQL, a complexity-aware routing framework that assigns queries to suitable SQL generation methods based on estimated complexity.
- 2025.03: Β ππ We proposed NL2SQL-BUGs, a new benchmark dedicated to detecting and categorizing semantic errors in NL2SQL translation.
- 2025.03: Β ππ We proposed nvBench 2.0, a new benchmark designed to evaluate NL2VIS systems in scenarios involving ambiguous queries.
- 2025.01: Β ππ We proposed Alpha-SQL, the o1 moment for NL2SQL!
- 2025.01: Β ππ Paper Augmenting Realistic Charts with Virtual Overlays has been accepted by CHIβ25.
- 2025.01: Β ππ I was awarded the Merit Prize for the 2024 DSA Excellent Research Award!
- 2024.09: Β ππ Paper Are Large Language Models Good Statisticians? has been accepted by NIPSβ24.
- 2024.06: Β ππ Paper The Dawn of Natural Language to SQL: Are We Fully Ready? has been accepted by VLDBβ24.
- 2024.04: Β ππ Paper Efficient Deep Spiking Multilayer Perceptrons With Multiplication-Free Inference has been accepted by TNNLSβ24.
π Publications
DeepEye-SQL: A Software-Engineering-Inspired Text-to-SQL Framework
Boyan Li, Chong Chen, Zhujun Xue, Yinan Mei, Yuyu Luo
Alpha-SQL: Zero-Shot Text-to-SQL using Monte Carlo Tree Search
Boyan Li, Jiayi Zhang, Ju Fan, Yanwei Xu, Chong Chen, Nan Tang, Yuyu Luo
DeepVIS: Bridging Natural Language and Data Visualization Through Step-wise Reasoning
Zhihao Shuai*, Boyan Li*, Siyu Yan, Yuyu Luo, Weikai Yang
*Equal contribution
NL2SQL-BUGs: A Benchmark for Detecting Semantic Errors in NL2SQL Translation
Xinyu Liu, Shuyu Shen, Boyan Li, Nan Tang, Yuyu Luo
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nvBench 2.0: A Benchmark for Natural Language to Visualization under Ambiguity
Tianqi Luo, Chuhan Huang, Leixian Shen, Boyan Li, Shuyu Shen, Wei Zeng, Nan Tang, Yuyu Luo
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EllieSQL: Cost-Efficient Text-to-SQL with Complexity-Aware Routing
Yizhang Zhu, Runzhi Jiang, Boyan Li, Nan Tang, Yuyu Luo
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A Survey of NL2SQL with Large Language Models: Where are we, and where are we going?
Xinyu Liu, Shuyu Shen, Boyan Li, Peixian Ma, Runzhi Jiang, Yuyu Luo, Yuxin Zhang, Ju Fan, Guoliang Li, Nan Tang
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Advances and Challenges in Foundation Agents
Bang Liu, β¦, Boyan Li, et al.
Augmenting Realistic Charts with Virtual Overlays
Yao Shi, Boyan Li, Yuyu Luo, Lei Chen, Nan Tang
A Plug-and-Play Natural Language Rewriter for Natural Language to SQL
Peixian Ma, Boyan Li, Runzhi Jiang, Ju Fan, Nan Tang, Yuyu Luo
The Dawn of Natural Language to SQL: Are We Fully Ready?
Boyan Li, Yuyu Luo, Chengliang Chai, Guoliang Li, Nan Tang
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Are Large Language Models Good Statisticians?
Yizhang Zhu, Shiyin Du, Boyan Li, Yuyu Luo, Nan Tang
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Efficient Deep Spiking Multi-Layer Perceptrons with Multiplication-Free Inference
Boyan Li, Luziwei Leng, Shuaijie Shen, Kaixuan Zhang, Jianguo Zhang, Jianxing Liao, Ran Cheng
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π Honors and Awards
- 2025.01: Merit Prize for the 2024 DSA Excellent Research Award.
- 2023.07: Highest Honors in Computer Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology.
- 2023.07: Outstanding Graduates, Southern University of Science and Technology.
π Educations
- 2024.09 - Present, PhD Student, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou).
- 2023.07 - 2024.09, Research Assistant, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou).
- 2019.09 - 2023.07, Bachelor of Computer Science and Technology, Southern University of Science and Technology. (GPA 3.91/4.0, Ranking 2/183)
π» Experience
- 2022.07 - 2022.09, Huawei Central Research Institute, Shenzhen, China.
- 2025.06 - Present, Exchange Student, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.