AdaQE-CG: Adaptive Query Expansion for Web-Scale Generative AI Model and Data Card Generation

Transparent and standardized documentation is essential for building trustworthy generative AI (GAI) systems. However, existing automated methods for generating model and data cards still face three major challenges: (i) static templates, as most systems rely on fixed query templates that cannot adapt to diverse paper structures or evolving documentation requirements; (ii) information scarcity, since web-scale repositories such as Hugging Face often contain incomplete or inconsistent metadata, leading to missing or noisy information; and (iii) lack of benchmarks, as the absence of standardized datasets and evaluation protocols hinders fair and reproducible assessment of documentation quality. To address these limitations, we propose AdaQE-CG, an Adaptive Query Expansion for Card Generation framework that combines dynamic information extraction with cross-card knowledge transfer. Its Intra-Paper Extraction via Context-Aware Query Expansion (IPE-QE) module iteratively refines extraction queries to recover richer and more complete information from scientific papers and repositories, while its Inter-Card Completion using the MetaGAI Pool (ICC-MP) module fills missing fields by transferring semantically relevant content from similar cards in a curated dataset. In addition, we introduce MetaGAI-Bench, the first large-scale, expert-annotated benchmark for evaluating GAI documentation. Comprehensive experiments across five quality dimensions show that AdaQE-CG substantially outperforms existing approaches, exceeds human-authored data cards, and approaches human-level quality for model cards. Code, prompts, and data are publicly available at: https://github.com/haoxuan-unt2024/AdaQE-CG.