astro-ph.IM · 2026-06-17 · No. 26

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, 2026-06-17.

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    Querying an astronomical database using large language models: the ALeRCE text-to-SQL system

    P. A. Estevez, J. Espejo-Moreira, S. Sanfeliu-Alvarez, F. Forster, A. M. Munoz Arancibia, G. Cabrera-Vives, F. E....

    astro-ph.IM · cs.AI

    We develop a text-to-SQL (structured query language) system based on large language models (LLMs) using in-context learning and apply it to the Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events (ALeRCE) astronomical database. ALeRCE is a community broker for the Zwicky Transient Facility and the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. The system enables users to query the database in natural language (NL) and generates executable SQL queries. To...

    arxiv.org/abs/2606.18108 · PDF

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