diff --git a/backends-velox/src/main/scala/org/apache/gluten/execution/GenerateExecTransformer.scala b/backends-velox/src/main/scala/org/apache/gluten/execution/GenerateExecTransformer.scala
index 267ff3897e..9df15769bf 100644
--- a/backends-velox/src/main/scala/org/apache/gluten/execution/GenerateExecTransformer.scala
+++ b/backends-velox/src/main/scala/org/apache/gluten/execution/GenerateExecTransformer.scala
@@ -186,11 +186,12 @@ object PullOutGenerateProjectHelper extends PullOutProjectHelper {
             // NOTE: DO NOT use eliminateProjectList to create the project list because
             // newGeneratorChild can be a duplicated Attribute in generate.child.output. The native
             // side identifies the last field of projection as generator's input.
-            val newGeneratorChildren = Seq(expressionMap.values.head)
+            val aliasExpr = expressionMap.values.head
             generate.copy(
-              generator =
-                generate.generator.withNewChildren(newGeneratorChildren).asInstanceOf[Generator],
-              child = ProjectExec(generate.child.output ++ newGeneratorChildren, generate.child)
+              generator = generate.generator
+                .withNewChildren(Seq(aliasExpr.toAttribute))
+                .asInstanceOf[Generator],
+              child = ProjectExec(generate.child.output ++ Seq(aliasExpr), generate.child)
             )
           } else {
             // generator.child is Attribute, no need to introduce a Project.
diff --git a/backends-velox/src/test/scala/org/apache/gluten/execution/MiscOperatorSuite.scala b/backends-velox/src/test/scala/org/apache/gluten/execution/MiscOperatorSuite.scala
index 51cb918aa6..f92f776226 100644
--- a/backends-velox/src/test/scala/org/apache/gluten/execution/MiscOperatorSuite.scala
+++ b/backends-velox/src/test/scala/org/apache/gluten/execution/MiscOperatorSuite.scala
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import org.apache.spark.shuffle.GlutenShuffleUtils
 import org.apache.spark.sql.{DataFrame, Row}
 import org.apache.spark.sql.execution._
 import org.apache.spark.sql.execution.adaptive.{AdaptiveSparkPlanHelper, AQEShuffleReadExec, ShuffleQueryStageExec}
+import org.apache.spark.sql.execution.exchange.ReusedExchangeExec
 import org.apache.spark.sql.execution.joins.BaseJoinExec
 import org.apache.spark.sql.execution.window.WindowExec
 import org.apache.spark.sql.functions._
@@ -1146,14 +1147,14 @@ class MiscOperatorSuite extends VeloxWholeStageTransformerSuite with AdaptiveSpa
           }
         }
 
-        // Fallback for array(struct(...), null) literal.
+        // array(struct(...), null) literal is not a sub-expression of generator.
         runQueryAndCompare(s"""
                               |SELECT $func(array(
                               |  named_struct('c1', 0, 'c2', 1),
                               |  named_struct('c1', 2, 'c2', null),
                               |  null));
                               |""".stripMargin) {
-          checkSparkPlan[GenerateExec]
+          checkGlutenPlan[GenerateExecTransformer]
         }
     }
   }
@@ -2278,4 +2279,41 @@ class MiscOperatorSuite extends VeloxWholeStageTransformerSuite with AdaptiveSpa
         assert(GlutenShuffleUtils.getCompressionCodec(conf) === codec)
     }
   }
+
+  test("exchange reuse with CTE lateral view explode") {
+    // This test verifies the fix for Generate pre-project canonicalization.
+    // When explode(split(col)) is used, a pre-project is inserted to compute the
+    // split expression as an Alias before feeding it to the generator. Before the
+    // fix, the generator use an alias expression as its sub-expression, but Spark's
+    // doCanonicalize does not cope with it.
+    // This caused structurally identical plans from different query
+    // parts to have different canonicalized forms, preventing ReuseExchangeExec
+    // from reusing exchanges.
+    // With AQE on and shuffle partitions > 1, the self-join on the CTE produces
+    // two identical shuffle exchanges that should be reused.
+    withSQLConf(
+      SQLConf.ADAPTIVE_EXECUTION_ENABLED.key -> "true",
+      SQLConf.SHUFFLE_PARTITIONS.key -> "2") {
+      runQueryAndCompare("""
+                           |WITH exploded AS (
+                           |  SELECT l_orderkey, word
+                           |  FROM lineitem
+                           |  LATERAL VIEW explode(split(l_comment, ' ')) t AS word
+                           |  WHERE l_orderkey < 10
+                           |)
+                           |SELECT count(*), sum(t1.l_orderkey + t2.l_orderkey)
+                           |FROM exploded t1
+                           |JOIN exploded t2 ON t1.word = t2.word
+                           |""".stripMargin) {
+        df =>
+          val plan = df.queryExecution.executedPlan
+          assert(
+            collect(plan) { case p: GenerateExecTransformer => p }.nonEmpty,
+            "Expected GenerateExecTransformer in the plan")
+          assert(
+            collect(plan) { case re: ReusedExchangeExec => re }.nonEmpty,
+            "Expected ReusedExchangeExec in the plan")
+      }
+    }
+  }
 }