Demo Data from VLDB 2026 / reviewers in the wild / expert
Prashant Gokhale
dblp:330/2298
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2ranked-venue papers
1as first author
2since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Algorithms and data structures · 50% Computational geometry · 50% | |
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Information retrieval · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Computational geometry › geometric modeling and processing
geometric representation |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Compact Geometric Representations of Hierarchies · COLT 2026 |
Information retrieval › document retrieval › structure-aware retrieval
hierarchical retrieval |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | Compact Geometric Representations of Hierarchies · COLT 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
treewidth parameterization · 2.0dual encoders · 1.0dual encoder · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Compact Geometric Representations of HierarchiesabstractComputing geometric representations of data is a cornerstone of modern machine learning, typically achieved by training dual encoders which map queries and documents into a shared embedding space. Recent work of You et al. [NeurIPS ’25] has extended this approach to hierarchical retrieval, where relevance is determined by the ancestor-descendant relationships in a Directed Acyclic Graph (DAG). While previous work has shown that valid embeddings exist when the number of descendants is small, these bounds degrade significantly for deep hierarchies, requiring dimensions as large as the total number of nodes. In this paper, we investigate compact reachability embeddings for more general graph classes and provide theoretical guarantees for representing hierarchies using embeddings whose dimension depends on structural graph parameters. We prove that for any directed tree, there exists a reachability embedding in constant dimension 3, independent of the tree’s size or depth. We generalize this result to graphs characterized by treewidth $t$, constructing embeddings of dimension $O(t \log n)$, where $n$ is the number of nodes. Complementing these upper bounds, we provide matching or near-matching lower bounds, showing that dimension $\Omega(n)$ is necessary for general DAGs and $\Omega(t / \log(n/t))$ is required for graphs of treewidth $t$. We also obtain upper and lower bounds parameterized by the number of cross-edges in the DAG. We additionally show that our embeddings can be constructed on real-world datasets, and that they give much smaller dimensions in high recall regimes compared to prior embeddings with theoretical guarantees. Prashant Gokhale, Piotr Indyk, Sandeep Silwal, Tony Chang Wang, Haike Xu |
COLT | 1 |
| 2026 | Using Ray-Shooting Queries for Sublinear Algorithms for Dominating Sets in RDV Graphs
Therese Biedl, Prashant Gokhale |
SOFSEM | 2 |