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Predicting What Answer Engines Cite: Open Decision Models, Rerankers and a Distilled 4B Student

arXiv paper scoring candidate pages by the citation share they will receive, comparing pretrained rerankers, Jev, eight open decision models and distilled students on GEO-Bench queries answered by ten engines. Releases GEO Citation Ranker 4B, the benchmark, all scorer predictions and code.
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  • Ten engines answer GEO-Bench queries with the same candidate sources placed in their prompt.
  • Where several engines answer the same query, they agree at a within-group Spearman correlation of 0.704.
  • Jev and two open 27B decision models are the strongest untrained scorers at 0.575 to 0.578.
  • GEO Citation Ranker 4B, a LoRA-tuned Qwen3-Reranker-4B, reaches 0.542 to 0.549 across three seeds.
  • Its differences from the 27B models and from Jev are not distinguishable from zero on 229 queries.

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