publications

in reversed chronological order.

2026

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    Generalized Entity Matching with Adaptivity via Large Language Models
    Xingguang Chen, Yimin Shi, and Xiaokui Xiao
    Proceedings of the ACM on Management of Data, 2026
    to appear (SIGMOD 2026)

2025

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    You Are What You Bought: Generating Customer Personas for E-commerce Applications
    Yimin Shi, Yang Fei, Shiqi Zhang, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 48th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2025
    arXiv Code Poster Slides
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    A Framework for Evaluating AI Agents in Open-Ended Conversations via Scripted Simulation
    Clarice Wang*, Yimin Shi*, and Xiaokui Xiao
    In Proceedings of the 31th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2025
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    ThriftLLM: On Cost-Effective Selection of Large Language Models for Classification Queries
    Keke Huang, Yimin Shi, Dujian Ding, and 4 more authors
    Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 2025
    arXiv Code
  4. GEM-Bench: A Benchmark for Ad-Injected Response Generation within Generative Engine Marketing
    Silan Hu, Shiqi Zhang, Yimin Shi, and 1 more author
    arXiv Preprint, 2025
    arXiv Code Website

2022

  1. An energy-efficient and privacy-aware decomposition framework for edge-assisted federated learning
    Yimin Shi, Haihan Duan, Lei Yang, and 1 more author
    ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, 2022

2020

  1. Edge-assisted federated learning: An empirical study from software decomposition perspective
    Yimin Shi, Haihan Duan, Yuanfang Chi, and 2 more authors
    In International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, 2020