Yifan Wu

Generative engines (GEs) are reshaping information access by replacing ranked links with citation-grounded answers, yet current Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) methods optimize each instance in isolation, unable to accumulate or transfer effective strategies across tasks and engines. We refr...

Human experts tackle difficult math problems by identifying and executing a few pivotal steps rather than listing every intermediate thought. In contrast, standard Chain-of-Thought (CoT) distillation trains small models on lengthy reasoning traces, encouraging a uniform overthinking style across...