4 papers
Event-Time Confounding Under Bursty Human Dynamics
Michael Iannelli, Alan Ai
Studies of digital behavior often align users at moments they choose, such as opening an AI assistant, clicking a recommendation, or visiting a product page, and interpret higher a…
The New Shape of Search: How Conversational AI Recomposes Information Seeking
Michael Iannelli, Alan Ai
The familiar search journey begins with a query and moves outward into documents, while conversational AI is commonly imagined at its start: ask first, then click out. Linking capt…
From Prompt to Purchase: How AI Brand Recommendations Move Consumers on the Open Web
Michael Iannelli, Alan Ai
When a conversational assistant recommends a brand to a user with no recent observed engagement, that user's same-name Google search rises +4.3 percentage points (pp) [3.1, 5.5], v…
SLA Management in Reconfigurable Multi-Agent RAG: A Systems Approach to Question Answering
Michael Iannelli, Sneha Kuchipudi, Vera Dvorak
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to generalize to new information by decoupling reasoning capabilities from static knowledge bases. Traditi…