Interactive-T2S: Multi-Turn Interactions for Text-to-SQL with Large Language Models

This study explores text-to-SQL parsing by leveraging the powerful reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs). Despite recent advancements, existing LLM-based methods have not adequately addressed scalability, leading to inefficiencies when processing wide tables. Furthermore, current interaction-based approaches either lack a step-by-step, interpretable SQL generation process or fail to provide an efficient and universally applicable interaction design. To address these challenges, we introduce Interactive-T2S, a framework that generates SQL queries through direct interactions with databases. This framework includes four general tools that facilitate proactive and efficient information retrieval by the LLM. Additionally, we have developed detailed exemplars to demonstrate the step-wise reasoning processes within our framework. Our experiments on the BIRD-Dev dataset, employing a setting without oracle knowledge, reveal that our method achieves state-of-the-art results with only two exemplars, underscoring the effectiveness and robustness of our framework.

A calcium imaging large dataset reveals novel functional organization in macaque V4

The topological organization and feature preferences of primate visual area V4 have been primarily studied using artificial stimuli. Here, we combined large-scale calcium imaging with deep learning methods to characterize and understand how V4 processes natural images. By fitting a deep learning model to an unprecedentedly large dataset of columnar scale cortical responses to tens of thousands of natural stimuli and using the model to identify the images preferred by each cortical pixel, we obtained a detailed V4 topographical map of natural stimulus preference. The map contains distinct functional domains preferring a variety of natural image features, ranging from surface-related features such as color and texture to shape-related features such as edge, curvature, and facial features. These predicted domains were verified by additional widefield calcium imaging and single-cell resolution two-photon imaging. Our study reveals the systematic topological organization of V4 for encoding image features in natural scenes.

Uncertainty Sentence Sampling by Virtual Adversarial Perturbation

Active learning for sentence understanding attempts to reduce the annotation cost by identifying the most informative examples. Common methods for active learning use either uncertainty or diversity sampling in the pool-based scenario. In this work, to incorporate both predictive uncertainty and sample diversity, we propose Virtual Adversarial Perturbation for Active Learning (VAPAL) , an uncertainty-diversity combination framework, using virtual adversarial perturbation (Miyato et al., 2019) as model uncertainty representation. VAPAL consistently performs equally well or even better than the strong baselines on four sentence understanding datasets: AGNEWS, IMDB, PUBMED, and SST-2, offering a potential option for active learning on sentence understanding tasks.