Xiaolong Li

Xiaolong Li

About Me

I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at The University of Hong Kong (HKU), advised by Professor Reynold C.K. Cheng. My research focuses on data-centric code generation: Text-to-SQL, code agents, and automated data science workflows.

Contact: xia01ong[AT]connect.hku.hk

Education

The University of Hong Kong

Ph.D in Department of Computer Science

2025-Sep. – Now

The University of Hong Kong

Master of Science in Computer Science (General Track)

2023-Sep. – 2024-Nov.

The University of British Columbia

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

2019-Sep. – 2023-May

Publications

  1. BIRD-INTERACT: Re-imagining Text-to-SQL Evaluation via Lens of Dynamic Interactions
    Nan Huo, Xiaohan Xu, Jinyang Li, Per Jacobsson, Shipei Lin, Bowen Qin, Binyuan Hui, Xiaolong Li, Ge Qu, Shuzheng Si, Linheng Han, Edward Alexander, Xintong Zhu, Rui Qin, Ruihan Yu, Yiyao Jin, Feige Zhou, Weihao Zhong, Yun Chen, Hongyu Liu, Chenhao Ma, Fatma Ozcan, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Reynold Cheng
    Arxiv 2025
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  2. SWE-SQL: Illuminating LLM Pathways to Solve User SQL Issues in Real-World Applications
    Jinyang Li*, Xiaolong Li*, Ge Qu*, Per Jacobsson, Bowen Qin, Binyuan Hui, Shuzheng Si, Nan Huo, Xiaohan Xu, Yue Zhang, Ziwei Tang, Yuanshuai Li, Florensia Widjaja, Xintong Zhu, Feige Zhou, Yongfeng Huang, Yannis Papakonstantinou, Fatma Ozcan, Chenhao Ma, Reynold Cheng
    NeurIPS Main 2025
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  3. SHARE: An SLM-based Hierarchical Action CorREction Assistant for Text-to-SQL
    Ge Qu, Jinyang Li, Bowen Qin, Xiaolong Li, Nan Huo, Chenhao Ma, Reynold Cheng
    ACL Main 2025
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  4. Micro-Act: Mitigate Knowledge Conflict in Question Answering via Actionable Self-Reasoning
    Nan Huo, Jinyang Li, Bowen Qin, Ge Qu, Xiaolong Li, Xiaodong Li, Chenhao Ma, Reynold Cheng
    ACL Main 2025
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Research Project

BIRD-SQL Mini-Dev: A Multilingual, Lightweight Version of the BIRD Development Set

May 2024 — Aug 2024

  • Update 2025-07-22: Released V2 with 780 instances (500 SELECT-only + 270 CRUD across 18 DBs). Added JSON ops and multi-dialect support (PostgreSQL, SQLite). See LiveSQLBench.
  • A lite development set for fast, cost-effective Text-to-SQL iteration. 500 high-quality pairs across 11 DBs in MySQL & PostgreSQL. Introduces R-VES (efficiency) and Soft-F1 (accuracy).
GitHub HuggingFace

Awards & Honors

  • Postgraduate Scholarship (PGS) — The University of Hong Kong, 2025
  • Dean’s Honour List — University of British Columbia, 2021
  • Graduate with Distinction — UBC (B.Sc.) & HKU (M.Sc.)

Last updated: Nov 2025