Text2SQL using Hugging Face Dataset Viewer API and Motherduck DuckDB-NSQL-7B
This Hugging Face blog post demonstrates a Text-to-SQL pipeline combining the Hugging Face Dataset Viewer API with MotherDuck's DuckDB-NSQL-7B model, a 7-billion parameter model fine-tuned for natural language to SQL translation. The post walks through using the model to query datasets stored on Hugging Face via DuckDB. It represents a practical integration of a domain-specialized open-weights model with a data infrastructure tool.
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