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6 papers

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

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.LG2025

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.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…