From 53f66cb95d6cef68bff149627739533ccd9c8fa4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: prrao87 <prrao87@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 23:07:27 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Add research paper link to the landing page

---
 docs/overrides/home.html             | 18 +++++++++++-------
 docs/src/assets/stylesheets/home.css | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/overrides/home.html b/docs/overrides/home.html
index 090a9db68f3..57109b50c4c 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 +146,20 @@ <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, columnar 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 the technical details of Lance by reading the research paper:
+          <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15247" class="lance-paper-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Lance: Efficient Random Access in Columnar Storage through Adaptive Structural Encodings"</a>
+        </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 {

From cd8ea11d95b1d08b204fc832fe9ea7ebdee76100 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: prrao87 <prrao87@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2025 12:39:10 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Address feedback comments

---
 docs/overrides/home.html | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/overrides/home.html b/docs/overrides/home.html
index 57109b50c4c..3322267f25e 100644
--- a/docs/overrides/home.html
+++ b/docs/overrides/home.html
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ <h3>The Open Lakehouse Format for Multimodal AI</h3>
       <div class="lance-intro-content">
         <h2>What is Lance?</h2>
         <p>
-          Lance is a modern, columnar format for multimodal AI. It contains a file format, table format, and catalog spec,
+          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
@@ -156,8 +156,9 @@ <h2>What is Lance?</h2>
           and open catalogs (Apache Polaris, Unity Catalog, Apache Gravitino, Hive Metastore, etc.)
         </p>
         <p>
-          Learn more about the technical details of Lance by reading the research paper:
-          <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15247" class="lance-paper-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">"Lance: Efficient Random Access in Columnar Storage through Adaptive Structural Encodings"</a>
+          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>