IF-GEO: Conflict-Aware Instruction Fusion for Multi-Query Generative Engine Optimization (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to improve content visibility are static heuristic rules or optimize for heterogeneous queries. |
| Approach: | They propose a "diverge-then-converge" framework that extracts optimization preferences from latent queries and synthesizes a global revision blueprint for guided editing. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework achieves substantial performance gains while maintaining robustness across diverse retrieval scenarios. |
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