BlendSQL: A Scalable Dialect for Unifying Hybrid Question Answering in Relational Algebra
| Autor: | Glenn, Parker, Dakle, Parag Pravin, Wang, Liang, Raghavan, Preethi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | Many existing end-to-end systems for hybrid question answering tasks can often be boiled down to a "prompt-and-pray" paradigm, where the user has limited control and insight into the intermediate reasoning steps used to achieve the final result. Additionally, due to the context size limitation of many transformer-based LLMs, it is often not reasonable to expect that the full structured and unstructured context will fit into a given prompt in a zero-shot setting, let alone a few-shot setting. We introduce BlendSQL, a superset of SQLite to act as a unified dialect for orchestrating reasoning across both unstructured and structured data. For hybrid question answering tasks involving multi-hop reasoning, we encode the full decomposed reasoning roadmap into a single interpretable BlendSQL query. Notably, we show that BlendSQL can scale to massive datasets and improve the performance of end-to-end systems while using 35% fewer tokens. Our code is available and installable as a package at https://github.com/parkervg/blendsql. Comment: For associated codebase, see https://github.com/parkervg/blendsql |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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