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Information retrieval (IR) is a pivotal component in various applications. Recent advances in machine learning (ML) have enabled the integration of ML algorithms into IR, particularly in ranking systems. While there is a plethora of…

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Personalized search has been a hot research topic for many years and has been widely used in e-commerce. This paper describes our solution to tackle the challenge of personalized e-commerce search at CIKM Cup 2016. The goal of this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Chen Wu , Ming Yan , Luo Si

Carousels (also-known as multilists) have become the standard user interface for e-commerce platforms replacing the ranked list, the previous standard for recommender systems. While the research community has begun to focus on carousels,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Santiago de Leon-Martinez

Product search is one of the most popular methods for customers to discover products online. Most existing studies on product search focus on developing effective retrieval models that rank items by their likelihood to be purchased. They,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Qingyao Ai , Yongfeng Zhang , Keping Bi , W. Bruce Croft

We consider the revenue maximization problem for an online retailer who plans to display in order a set of products differing in their prices and qualities. Consumers have attention spans, i.e., the maximum number of products they are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Ningyuan Chen , Anran Li , Shuoguang Yang

Finding relevant products given a user query is pivotal to an e-commerce platform, as it can drive shopping behavior and generate revenue. The challenge lies in accurately predicting the correlation between queries and products. Recently,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Ge Zhang , Rohan Deepak Ajwani , Yaochen Hu , Tony Zheng , Hongjian Gu , Wei Guo , Mark Coates , Yingxue Zhang

Rank aggregation based on pairwise comparisons over a set of items has a wide range of applications. Although considerable research has been devoted to the development of rank aggregation algorithms, one basic question is how to efficiently…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-22 Xi Chen , Kevin Jiao , Qihang Lin

Click models are an important tool for leveraging user feedback, and are used by commercial search engines for surfacing relevant search results. However, existing click models are lacking in two aspects. First, they do not share…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-01-03 Dinesh Govindaraj , Tao Wang , S. V. N. Vishwanathan

Improved search quality enhances users' satisfaction, which directly impacts sales growth of an E-Commerce (E-Com) platform. Traditional Learning to Rank (LTR) algorithms require relevance judgments on products. In E-Com, getting such…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Muhammad Umer Anwaar , Dmytro Rybalko , Martin Kleinsteuber

Product ranking is a crucial component for many e-commerce services. One of the major challenges in product search is the vocabulary mismatch between query and products, which may be a larger vocabulary gap problem compared to other…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Xuyang Wu , Alessandro Magnani , Suthee Chaidaroon , Ajit Puthenputhussery , Ciya Liao , Yi Fang

Carousel-based recommendation interfaces allow users to explore recommended items in a structured, efficient, and visually-appealing way. This made them a de-facto standard approach to recommending items to end users in many real-life…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-03 Behnam Rahdari , Branislav Kveton , Peter Brusilovsky

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

E commerce refers to the utilization of electronic data transmission for enhancing business processes and implementing business strategies. Explicit components of e commerce include providing after sales services, promoting services or…

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World Wide Web is a huge repository of information and there is a tremendous increase in the volume of information daily. The number of users are also increasing day by day. To reduce users browsing time lot of research is taken place. Web…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-05-22 V. Chitraa , Antony Selvadoss Thanamani

In online marketplaces like Airbnb, users frequently engage in comparison shopping before making purchase decisions. Despite the prevalence of this behavior, a significant disconnect persists between mainstream e-commerce search engines and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Jie Tang , Daochen Zha , Xin Liu , Huiji Gao , Liwei He , Stephanie Moyerman , Sanjeev Katariya

E-commerce platforms consistently aim to provide personalized recommendations to drive user engagement, enhance overall user experience, and improve business metrics. Most e-commerce platforms contain multiple carousels on their homepage,…

Long-term user behavior sequences are a goldmine for businesses to explore users' interests to improve Click-Through Rate. However, it is very challenging to accurately capture users' long-term interests from their long-term behavior…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Wenji Zhou , Yuhang Zheng , Yinfu Feng , Yunan Ye , Rong Xiao , Long Chen , Xiaosong Yang , Jun Xiao

In e-commerce, the salience of commonsense knowledge (CSK) is beneficial for widespread applications such as product search and recommendation. For example, when users search for ``running'' in e-commerce, they would like to find products…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Yincen Qu , Ningyu Zhang , Hui Chen , Zelin Dai , Zezhong Xu , Chengming Wang , Xiaoyu Wang , Qiang Chen , Huajun Chen

Multi-behavior recommendation predicts items a user may purchase by analyzing diverse behaviors like viewing, adding to a cart, and purchasing. Existing methods fall into two categories: representation learning and graph ranking.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Geonwoo Ko , Minseo Jeon , Jinhong Jung

Retrieving all semantically relevant products from the product catalog is an important problem in E-commerce. Compared to web documents, product catalogs are more structured and sparse due to multi-instance fields that encode heterogeneous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Jason Ingyu Choi , Surya Kallumadi , Bhaskar Mitra , Eugene Agichtein , Faizan Javed