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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…

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

Modern e-commerce search is evolving to resolve complex user intents. While Large Language Models (LLMs) offer strong reasoning, existing LLM-based paradigms face a fundamental blindness-latency dilemma: query rewriting is agnostic to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Mengxiang Chen , Zhouwei Zhai , Jin Li

In the realm of search systems, multi-stage cascade architecture is a prevalent method, typically consisting of sequential modules such as matching, pre-ranking, and ranking. It is generally acknowledged that the model used in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Qihang Zhao , Rui-jie Zhu , Liu Yang , He Yongming , Bo Zhou , Luo Cheng

We propose a two-stage "Mine and Refine" contrastive training framework for semantic text embeddings to enhance multi-category e-commerce search retrieval. Large scale e-commerce search demands embeddings that generalize to long tail, noisy…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Jiaqi Xi , Raghav Saboo , Luming Chen , Martin Wang , Sudeep Das

Personalizing user experience with high-quality recommendations based on user activity is vital for e-commerce platforms. This is particularly important in scenarios where the user's intent is not explicit, such as on the homepage.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Kirill Khrylchenko , Alexander Fritzler

In sponsored search, keyword recommendations help advertisers to achieve much better performance within limited budget. Many works have been done to mine numerous candidate keywords from search logs or landing pages. However, the strategy…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Zhipeng Li , Jianwei Wu , Lin Sun , Tao Rong

Product matching, the task of identifying different representations of the same product for better discoverability, curation, and pricing, is a key capability for online marketplace and e-commerce companies. We present a robust multi-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Sándor Tóth , Stephen Wilson , Alexia Tsoukara , Enric Moreu , Anton Masalovich , Lars Roemheld

In product search, the retrieval of candidate products before re-ranking is more critical and challenging than other search like web search, especially for tail queries, which have a complex and specific search intent. In this paper, we…

Learning sophisticated feature interactions behind user behaviors is critical in maximizing CTR for recommender systems. Despite great progress, existing methods have a strong bias towards low- or high-order interactions, or rely on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-17 Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang , Yunming Ye , Zhenguo Li , Xiuqiang He , Zhenhua Dong

Learning high-quality feature embeddings efficiently and effectively is critical for the performance of web-scale machine learning systems. A typical model ingests hundreds of features with vocabularies on the order of millions to billions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Benjamin Coleman , Wang-Cheng Kang , Matthew Fahrbach , Ruoxi Wang , Lichan Hong , Ed H. Chi , Derek Zhiyuan Cheng

In large-scale advertising recommendation systems, retrieval serves as a critical component, aiming to efficiently select a subset of candidate ads relevant to user behaviors from a massive ad inventory for subsequent ranking and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Yifan Lei , Jiahua Luo , Tingyu Jiang , Bo Zhang , Lifeng Wang , Dapeng Liu , Zhaoren Wu , Haijie Gu , Huan Yu , Jie Jiang

Dividing ads ranking system into retrieval, early, and final stages is a common practice in large scale ads recommendation to balance the efficiency and accuracy. The early stage ranking often uses efficient models to generate candidates…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Xuewei Wang , Qiang Jin , Shengyu Huang , Min Zhang , Xi Liu , Zhengli Zhao , Yukun Chen , Zhengyu Zhang , Jiyan Yang , Ellie Wen , Sagar Chordia , Wenlin Chen , Qin Huang

In real-world search, recommendation, and advertising systems, the multi-stage ranking architecture is commonly adopted. Such architecture usually consists of matching, pre-ranking, ranking, and re-ranking stages. In the pre-ranking stage,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Xu Ma , Pengjie Wang , Hui Zhao , Shaoguo Liu , Chuhan Zhao , Wei Lin , Kuang-Chih Lee , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng

Sponsored search is a multi-billion dollar industry and makes up a major source of revenue for search engines (SE). click-through-rate (CTR) estimation plays a crucial role for ads selection, and greatly affects the SE revenue, advertiser…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-22 Afroze Ibrahim Baqapuri , Ilya Trofimov

Sponsored search is an important monetization channel for search engines, in which an auction mechanism is used to select the ads shown to users and determine the prices charged from advertisers. There have been several pieces of work in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2014-06-05 Di He , Wei Chen , Liwei Wang , Tie-Yan Liu

As e-commerce platforms expand their product catalogs, accurately recommending long-tail items becomes increasingly important for enhancing both user experience and platform revenue. A key challenge is the long-tail problem, where extreme…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Qingyi Lu , Haotian Lyu , Jiayun Zheng , Yang Wang , Li Zhang , Chengrui Zhou

Recently, neural models for information retrieval are becoming increasingly popular. They provide effective approaches for product search due to their competitive advantages in semantic matching. However, it is challenging to use…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Yuan Zhang , Dong Wang , Yan Zhang

Faceted search acts as a critical bridge for navigating massive ecommerce catalogs, yet traditional systems rely on static rule-based extraction or statistical ranking, struggling with emerging vocabulary, semantic gaps, and a disconnect…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Zhouwei Zhai , Min Yang , Jin Li

In web search, mutual influences between documents have been studied from the perspective of search result diversification. But the methods in web search is not directly applicable to e-commerce search because of their differences. And…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Tao Zhuang , Wenwu Ou , Zhirong Wang