Hai Wang
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2026
MTSQL-R1: Towards Long-Horizon Multi-Turn Text-to-SQL via Agentic Training
Taicheng Guo | Hai Wang | Chaochun Liu | Mohsen Golalikhani | Xin Chen | Xiangliang Zhang | Chandan K. Reddy
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Taicheng Guo | Hai Wang | Chaochun Liu | Mohsen Golalikhani | Xin Chen | Xiangliang Zhang | Chandan K. Reddy
Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Multi-turn Text-to-SQL aims to translate a user’s conversational utterances into executable SQL while preserving dialogue coherence and grounding to the target schema. However, most existing systems only regard this task as a simple text translation task and follow a short-horizon paradigm, generating a query per turn without execution, explicit verification, and refinement, which leads to non-executable or incoherent outputs. We present MTSQL-R1, an agentic training framework for long-horizon multi-turn Text-to-SQL. We cast the task as a Markov Decision Process (MDP) in which an agent interacts with (i) a database for execution feedback and (ii) a persistent dialogue memory for coherence verification, performing an iterative propose->execute->verify->refine cycle until all checks pass. Experiments on CoSQL and SParC demonstrate that MTSQL-R1 consistently outperforms strong baselines, highlighting the importance of environment-driven verification and memory-guided refinement for conversational semantic parsing. Full recipes (including code, trained models, reasoning trajectories, etc.) will be released upon acceptance to contribute to community research.