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most citedGenerative Engine Optimization: How to Dominate AI Search

9 citations · 10 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.IR2026

Location, Location, Generation: Where You Ask Matters for Generative Engine Optimization

Mahe Chen, Nick Koudas

Generative search engines answer local and commercial questions with a written answer and a few cited sources. A growing practice of generative engine optimization (GEO) monitors w…

astro-ph.GA2026

Photometric Identification and Dynamical Purification of Blue Horizontal Branch Stars in DESI MWS DR1

Shuai Zhang, Xiaolong Wang, Kai Xiao +5

Blue horizontal-branch (BHB) stars are ideal tracers for mapping the structure of the Galactic stellar halo. However, traditional spectroscopic identification is limited by data qu…

cs.DB2026

Can we trust LLM Self-Explanations for Entity Resolution?

Tommaso Teofili, Donatella Firmani, Nick Koudas +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown strong performance on Entity Resolution (ER). Additionally, akin to their prowess in providing accurate predictions, these models o…

cs.IR2026

Navigating the Shift: A Comparative Analysis of Web Search and Generative AI Response Generation

Mahe Chen, Xiaoxuan Wang, Kaiwen Chen +1

The rise of generative AI as a primary information source presents a paradigm shift from traditional web search. This paper presents a large-scale empirical study quantifying the f…

cs.DB2025

Relational Deep Dive: Error-Aware Queries Over Unstructured Data

Daren Chao, Kaiwen Chen, Naiqing Guan +1

Unstructured data is pervasive, but analytical queries demand structured representations, creating a significant extraction challenge. Existing methods like RAG lack schema awarene…

cs.IR2025★ 9 cited

Generative Engine Optimization: How to Dominate AI Search

Mahe Chen, Xiaoxuan Wang, Kaiwen Chen +1

The rapid adoption of generative AI-powered search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini is fundamentally reshaping information retrieval, moving from traditional ranked lis…

cs.DB2025

Reliable Text-to-SQL with Adaptive Abstention

Kaiwen Chen, Yueting Chen, Xiaohui Yu +1

Large language models (LLMs) have revolutionized natural language interfaces for databases, particularly in text-to-SQL conversion. However, current approaches often generate unrel…

cs.LG2024

WeShap: Weak Supervision Source Evaluation with Shapley Values

Naiqing Guan, Nick Koudas

Efficient data annotation stands as a significant bottleneck in training contemporary machine learning models. The Programmatic Weak Supervision (PWS) pipeline presents a solution…

cs.CL2024

AXOLOTL: Fairness through Assisted Self-Debiasing of Large Language Model Outputs

Sana Ebrahimi, Kaiwen Chen, Abolfazl Asudeh +2

Pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly advanced natural language processing capabilities but are susceptible to biases present in their training data, leading…

cs.LG2024

ActiveDP: Bridging Active Learning and Data Programming

Naiqing Guan, Nick Koudas

Modern machine learning models require large labelled datasets to achieve good performance, but manually labelling large datasets is expensive and time-consuming. The data programm…

cs.CL2023★ 1 cited

Can Large Language Models Design Accurate Label Functions?

Naiqing Guan, Kaiwen Chen, Nick Koudas

Programmatic weak supervision methodologies facilitate the expedited labeling of extensive datasets through the use of label functions (LFs) that encapsulate heuristic data sources…