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Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Marjan Celikik , Matthias Kirmse , Timo Denk , Pierre Gagliardi , Sahar Mbarek , Duy Pham , Ana Peleteiro Ramallo

Item indexing, which maps a large corpus of items into compact discrete representations, is critical for both discriminative and generative recommender systems, yet existing Vector Quantization (VQ)-based approaches struggle with the highly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Jing Yan , Yimeng Bai , Zongyu Liu , Yahui Liu , Junwei Wang , Jingze Huang , Haoda Li , Sihao Ding , Shaohui Ruan , Yang Zhang

In the past decade, automatic product description generation for e-commerce have witnessed significant advancement. As the services provided by e-commerce platforms become diverse, it is necessary to dynamically adapt the patterns of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Xiaojie Guo , Shugen Wang , Hanqing Zhao , Shiliang Diao , Jiajia Chen , Zhuoye Ding , Zhen He , Yun Xiao , Bo Long , Han Yu , Lingfei Wu

E-commerce information retrieval (IR) systems struggle to simultaneously achieve high accuracy in interpreting complex user queries and maintain efficient processing of vast product catalogs. The dual challenge lies in precisely matching…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Shenbin Qian , Diptesh Kanojia , Samarth Agrawal , Hadeel Saadany , Swapnil Bhosale , Constantin Orasan , Zhe Wu

Product reviews summarization is a type of Multi-Document Summarization (MDS) task in which the summarized document sets are often far larger than in traditional MDS (up to tens of thousands of reviews). We highlight this difference and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Ori Shapira , Ran Levy

With the increasing scale of search engine marketing, designing an efficient bidding system is becoming paramount for the success of e-commerce companies. The critical challenges faced by a modern industrial-level bidding system include: 1.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-09 Cheng Jie , Da Xu , Zigeng Wang , Lu Wang , Wei Shen

In this paper, we focus on the problem of item matching using only the description. Those specific items not only lack a unique code but also contain short text descriptions, making the item matching process difficult. Our goal is to…

Recently, in the area of big data, some popular applications such as web search engines and recommendation systems, face the problem to diversify results during query processing. In this sense, it is both significant and essential to…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Meifan Zhang , Hongzhi Wang , Jianzhong Li , Hong Gao

Selling a single item to $n$ self-interested buyers is a fundamental problem in economics, where the two objectives typically considered are welfare maximization and revenue maximization. Since the optimal mechanisms are often impractical…

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Finding the optimal (revenue-maximizing) mechanism to sell multiple items has been a prominent and notoriously difficult open problem. Existing work has mainly focused on deriving analytical results tailored to a particular class of…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-01-09 Kento Hashimoto , Keita Kuwahara , Reo Nonaka

Traditional e-commerce search systems employ multi-stage cascading architectures (MCA) that progressively filter items through recall, pre-ranking, and ranking stages. While effective at balancing computational efficiency with business…

We study the similarity search problem which aims to find the similar query results according to a set of given data and a query string. To balance the result number and result quality, we combine query result diversity with query…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Ruoxi Shi , Hongzhi Wang , Tao Wang , Yutai Hou , Yiwen Tang

Embedding based product recommendations have gained popularity in recent years due to its ability to easily integrate to large-scale systems and allowing nearest neighbor searches in real-time. The bulk of studies in this area has…

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Product feature recommendations are critical for online customers to purchase the right products based on the right features. For a customer, selecting the product that has the best trade-off between price and functionality is a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Mingming Guo , Nian Yan , Xiquan Cui , Simon Hughes , Khalifeh Al Jadda

Recommender systems can be formulated as a matrix completion problem, predicting ratings from user and item parameter vectors. Optimizing these parameters by subsampling data becomes difficult as the number of users and items grows. We…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-09 Elias Tragas , Calvin Luo , Maxime Gazeau , Kevin Luk , David Duvenaud

This paper proposes a number of explicit and implicit ratings in product recommendation system for Business-to-customer e-commerce purposes. The system recommends the products to a new user. It depends on the purchase pattern of previous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2011-09-21 Ruma Dutta , Debajyoti Mukhopadhyay

In many scenarios we need to find the most likely program under a local context, where the local context can be an incomplete program, a partial specification, natural language description, etc. We call such problem program estimation. In…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-02-22 Yingfei Xiong , Bo Wang , Guirong Fu , Linfei Zang

Program synthesis is the process of automatically translating a specification into computer code. Traditional synthesis settings require a formal, precise specification. Motivated by computer education applications where a student learns to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Evan Hernandez , Ara Vartanian , Xiaojin Zhu

Synthetic data generation with Large Language Models is a promising paradigm for augmenting natural data over a nearly infinite range of tasks. Given this variety, direct comparisons among synthetic data generation algorithms are scarce,…

E-commerce platforms surface interesting products largely through product recommendations that capture users' styles and aesthetic preferences. Curating recommendations as a complete complementary set, or assortment, is critical for a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Murium Iqbal , Adair Kovac , Kamelia Aryafar