Snowflake introduces ExCoT, a structured framework designed to optimize open-source LLMs through the combination of CoT reasoning and iterative preference optimization, relying solely on execution accuracy as feedback.
ExCoT employs detailed CoT reasoning and a divide-and-conquer strategy to manage the complexity and nested structures of SQL operations more effectively.
Experimental evaluation of ExCoT demonstrated significant improvements in execution accuracy, surpassing established methods and maintaining high query validity rates.
ExCoT represents a methodical advancement in structured reasoning optimization for open-source LLMs applied to text-to-SQL tasks, with further potential for broader applications.