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
- 2025.07 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
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
EllieSQL: Cost-Efficient Text-to-SQL with Complexity-Aware Routing
Yizhang Zhu, Runzhi Jiang, Boyan Li, Nan Tang, Yuyu Luo
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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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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.
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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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» Internships
- 2022.07 - 2022.09, Huawei Central Research Institute, Shenzhen, China.