publications

2026

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   NBQ: Next-Best-Question for Dynamic Profiling

   Yimin Shi, Clarice Wang, Haixun Wang, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2026

   DOI arXiv Code Poster

2. 

   GEM-Bench: A Benchmark for Ad-Injected Response Generation within Generative Engine Marketing

   Silan Hu, Shiqi Zhang, Yimin Shi, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2026

   DOI arXiv Code Website

3. 

   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

   DOI HTML Code

2025

1. 

   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

2. 

   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

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