Bird-SQL (dev)

BIRD (BIg Bench for LaRge-scale Database Grounded Text-to-SQLs) is a comprehensive text-to-SQL benchmark containing 12,751 question-SQL pairs across 95 databases (33.4 GB total) spanning 37+ professional domains. It evaluates large language models' ability to convert natural language to executable SQL queries in real-world scenarios with complex database schemas and dirty data.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite from Google currently leads the Bird-SQL (dev) leaderboard with a score of 0.574 across 7 evaluated AI models.

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GoogleGemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads with 57.4%, followed by GoogleGemini 2.0 Flash at 56.9% and GoogleGemma 3 27B at 54.4%.

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What is the Bird-SQL (dev) benchmark?

BIRD (BIg Bench for LaRge-scale Database Grounded Text-to-SQLs) is a comprehensive text-to-SQL benchmark containing 12,751 question-SQL pairs across 95 databases (33.4 GB total) spanning 37+ professional domains. It evaluates large language models' ability to convert natural language to executable SQL queries in real-world scenarios with complex database schemas and dirty data.

What is the Bird-SQL (dev) leaderboard?

The Bird-SQL (dev) leaderboard ranks 7 AI models based on their performance on this benchmark. Currently, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite by Google leads with a score of 0.574. The average score across all models is 0.430.

What is the highest Bird-SQL (dev) score?

The highest Bird-SQL (dev) score is 0.574, achieved by Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite from Google.

How many models are evaluated on Bird-SQL (dev)?

7 models have been evaluated on the Bird-SQL (dev) benchmark, with 0 verified results and 7 self-reported results.

Where can I find the Bird-SQL (dev) paper?

The Bird-SQL (dev) paper is available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.03111. The paper details the methodology, dataset construction, and evaluation criteria.

What categories does Bird-SQL (dev) cover?

Bird-SQL (dev) is categorized under reasoning. The benchmark evaluates text models.

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