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Predicting future consumer behaviour is one of the most challenging problems for large scale retail firms. Accurate prediction of consumer purchase pattern enables better inventory planning and efficient personalized marketing strategies.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Ankur Verma

We present the Learned Ranking Function (LRF), a system that takes short-term user-item behavior predictions as input and outputs a slate of recommendations that directly optimizes for long-term user satisfaction. Most previous work is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Yi Wu , Daryl Chang , Jennifer She , Zhe Zhao , Li Wei , Lukasz Heldt

One of the main challenges in ranking is embedding the query and document pairs into a joint feature space, which can then be fed to a learning-to-rank algorithm. To achieve this representation, the conventional state of the art approaches…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-08-09 Dana Sagi , Tzoof Avny , Kira Radinsky , Eugene Agichtein

Learning product representations that reflect complementary relationship plays a central role in e-commerce recommender system. In the absence of the product relationships graph, which existing methods rely on, there is a need to detect the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Da Xu , Chuanwei Ruan , Jason Cho , Evren Korpeoglu , Sushant Kumar , Kannan Achan

In recent years, deep metric learning has achieved promising results in learning high dimensional semantic feature embeddings where the spatial relationships of the feature vectors match the visual similarities of the images. Similarity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Konstantin Schall , Kai Uwe Barthel , Nico Hezel , Klaus Jung

In e-commerce, web mining for page recommendations is widely used but often fails to meet user needs. To address this, we propose a novel solution combining semantic web mining with BP neural networks. We process user search logs to extract…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-13 M. Badouch , M. Boutaounte

Many information access systems operationalize their results in terms of rankings, which are then displayed to users in various ranking layouts such as linear lists or grids. User interaction with a retrieved item is highly dependent on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Amifa Raj , Michael Ekstrand

Query rewriting is essential for database performance optimization, but existing automated rule enumeration methods suffer from exponential search spaces, severe redundancy, and poor scalability, especially when handling complex query plans…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yuan Zhang , Yuxing Chen , Yuekun Yu , Jinbin Huang , Rui Mao , Anqun Pan , Lixiong Zheng , Jianbin Qin

This paper addresses the challenge of improving user experience on e-commerce platforms by enhancing product ranking relevant to users' search queries. Ambiguity and complexity of user queries often lead to a mismatch between the user's…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Hadeel Saadany , Swapnil Bhosale , Samarth Agrawal , Diptesh Kanojia , Constantin Orasan , Zhe Wu

In e-commerce websites, web mining web page recommendation technology has been widely used. However, recommendation solutions often cannot meet the actual application needs of online shopping users. To address this problem, this paper…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Wenchao Zhao , Xiaoyi Liu , Ruilin Xu , Lingxi Xiao , Muqing Li

In information retrieval, learning to rank constructs a machine-based ranking model which given a query, sorts the search results by their degree of relevance or importance to the query. Neural networks have been successfully applied to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-12 Baiyang Wang , Diego Klabjan

Large scale eCommerce platforms such as eBay carry a wide variety of inventory and provide several buying choices to online shoppers. It is critical for eCommerce search engines to showcase in the top results the variety and selection of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Shubhangi Tandon , Saratchandra Indrakanti , Amit Jaiswal , Svetlana Strunjas , Manojkumar Rangasamy Kannadasan

Generating accurate and reliable sales forecasts is crucial in the E-commerce business. The current state-of-the-art techniques are typically univariate methods, which produce forecasts considering only the historical sales data of a single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Kasun Bandara , Peibei Shi , Christoph Bergmeir , Hansika Hewamalage , Quoc Tran , Brian Seaman

Estimating position bias is a well-known challenge in Learning to Rank (L2R). Click data in e-commerce applications, such as targeted advertisements and search engines, provides implicit but abundant feedback to improve personalized…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Shion Ishikawa , Yun Ching Liu , Young-Joo Chung , Yu Hirate

Precisely modeling user ultra-long sequences is critical for industrial recommender systems. Current approaches predominantly focus on leveraging ultra-long sequences in the ranking stage, whereas research for the candidate retrieval stage…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Qin Ren , Zheng Chai , Xijun Xiao , Yuchao Zheng , Di Wu

Learning to rank -- producing a ranked list of items specific to a query and with respect to a set of supervisory items -- is a problem of general interest. The setting we consider is one in which no analytic description of what constitutes…

Search queries with superlatives (e.g., best, most popular) require comparing candidates across multiple dimensions, demanding linguistic understanding and domain knowledge. We show that LLMs can uncover latent intent behind these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yilun Zhu , Nikhita Vedula , Shervin Malmasi

Getting a good understanding of the customer intent is essential in e-commerce search engines. In particular, associating the correct product type to a search query plays a vital role in surfacing correct products to the customers. Query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Anna Tigunova , Thomas Ricatte , Ghadir Eraisha

E-commerce companies deal with a high volume of customer service requests daily. While a simple annotation system is often used to summarize the topics of customer contacts, thoroughly exploring each specific issue can be challenging. This…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Shu-Ting Pi , Sidarth Srinivasan , Yuying Zhu , Michael Yang , Qun Liu

With the explosive growth of Internet data, users are facing the problem of information overload, which makes it a challenge to efficiently obtain the required resources. Recommendation systems have emerged in this context. By filtering…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Wenyi Liu , Rui Wang , Yuanshuai Luo , Jianjun Wei , Zihao Zhao , Junming Huang