diff --git a/docs/overrides/home.html b/docs/overrides/home.html
index 090a9db68f3..3322267f25e 100644
--- a/docs/overrides/home.html
+++ b/docs/overrides/home.html
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@
     .lance-feature-section .md-button,
     .lance-intro-section .md-button:not(.md-button--primary) {
       background-color: transparent;
-      color: #625EFF;
-      text-decoration: underline;
+      color: inherit;
+      text-decoration: none;
       border: none;
       box-shadow: none;
     }
@@ -50,8 +50,8 @@
     .lance-feature-section .md-button:hover,
     .lance-intro-section .md-button:not(.md-button--primary):hover {
       background-color: transparent;
-      color: #757575;
-      text-decoration: underline;
+      color: #625EFF;
+      text-decoration: none;
     }
   </style>
 
@@ -146,16 +146,21 @@ <h3>The Open Lakehouse Format for Multimodal AI</h3>
   <section class="lance-intro-section">
     <div class="container">
       <div class="lance-intro-content">
-        <h2>What is Lance<sup>™</sup>?</h2>
+        <h2>What is Lance?</h2>
         <p>
-          Lance contains a file format, table format, and catalog spec for multimodal AI,
+          Lance is a modern, open source lakehouse format for multimodal AI. It contains a file format, table format, and catalog spec,
           allowing you to build a complete open lakehouse on top of object storage to power your AI workflows.
           Lance brings high-performance vector search, full-text search, random access, and feature
           engineering capabilities to the lakehouse, while you can still get all the existing lakehouse benefits
           like SQL analytics, ACID transactions, time travel, and integrations with open engines (Apache Spark, Ray, PyTorch, Trino, DuckDB, etc.)
           and open catalogs (Apache Polaris, Unity Catalog, Apache Gravitino, Hive Metastore, etc.)
         </p>
-        <a href="quickstart" class="md-button md-button--primary">Learn More</a>
+        <p>
+          Learn more about Lance's technical details by reading our 
+          <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15247" class="lance-paper-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research paper</a>
+          published at <em>VLDB 2025</em>.
+        </p>
+        <a href="quickstart" class="md-button md-button--primary">Read the Docs</a>
       </div>
     </div>
   </section>
diff --git a/docs/src/assets/stylesheets/home.css b/docs/src/assets/stylesheets/home.css
index dcf90b5ccdf..086b6b43be6 100644
--- a/docs/src/assets/stylesheets/home.css
+++ b/docs/src/assets/stylesheets/home.css
@@ -149,7 +149,22 @@
   line-height: 1.8;
   margin-bottom: 32px;
   opacity: 0.9;
-  text-align: center;
+  text-align: left;
+}
+
+.lance-paper-link {
+  color: var(--md-primary-fg-color);
+  text-decoration: none;
+}
+
+.lance-paper-link:hover {
+  color: var(--md-primary-fg-color);
+  text-decoration: none;
+}
+
+.lance-intro-content a:hover {
+  color: #757575;
+  text-decoration: none;
 }
 
 .lance-intro-content .md-button {