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Beyond general web-scale search, social network search uniquely enables users to retrieve information and discover potential connections within their social context. We introduce a framework of modernized Facebook Group Scoped Search by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Yongye Su , Zeya Zhang , Jane Kou , Cheng Ju , Shubhojeet Sarkar , Yamin Wang , Ji Liu , Shengbo Guo

Embedding-based Retrieval (EBR) in e-commerce search is a powerful search retrieval technique to address semantic matches between search queries and products. However, commercial search engines like Facebook Marketplace Search are complex…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Yunzhong He , Yuxin Tian , Mengjiao Wang , Feier Chen , Licheng Yu , Maolong Tang , Congcong Chen , Ning Zhang , Bin Kuang , Arul Prakash

Embedding based retrieval (EBR) is a fundamental building block in many web applications. However, EBR in sponsored search is distinguished from other generic scenarios and technically challenging due to the need of serving multiple…

Embedding-based retrieval (EBR) is a technique to use embeddings to represent query and document, and then convert the retrieval problem into a nearest neighbor search problem in the embedding space. Some previous works have mainly focused…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Wenbiao Li , Pan Tang , Zhengfan Wu , Weixue Lu , Minghua Zhang , Zhenlei Tian , Daiting Shi , Yu Sun , Simiu Gu , Dawei Yin

The goal of Airbnb search is to match guests with the ideal accommodation that fits their travel needs. This is a challenging problem, as popular search locations can have around a hundred thousand available homes, and guests themselves…

Embedding-based neural retrieval is a prevalent approach to address the semantic gap problem which often arises in product search on tail queries. In contrast, popular queries typically lack context and have a broad intent where additional…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Rishikesh Jha , Siddharth Subramaniyam , Ethan Benjamin , Thrivikrama Taula

Embedding-based retrieval aims to learn a shared semantic representation space for both queries and items, enabling efficient and effective item retrieval through approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) algorithms. In current industrial…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Han Zhang , Yunjiang Jiang , Mingming Li , Haowei Yuan , Yiming Qiu , Wen-Yun Yang

Large-scale embedding-based retrieval (EBR) is the cornerstone of search-related industrial applications. Given a user query, the system of EBR aims to identify relevant information from a large corpus of documents that may be tens or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-20 Yukang Gan , Yixiao Ge , Chang Zhou , Shupeng Su , Zhouchuan Xu , Xuyuan Xu , Quanchao Hui , Xiang Chen , Yexin Wang , Ying Shan

The embedding-based retrieval (EBR) approach is widely used in mainstream search engine retrieval systems and is crucial in recent retrieval-augmented methods for eliminating LLM illusions. However, existing EBR models often face the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Yanan Zhang , Xiaoling Bai , Tianhua 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

Embedding-based retrieval (EBR) methods are widely used in modern recommender systems thanks to its simplicity and effectiveness. However, along the journey of deploying and iterating on EBR in production, we still identify some fundamental…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Yuan Zhang , Xue Dong , Weijie Ding , Biao Li , Peng Jiang , Kun Gai

Text embedding models serve as a fundamental component in real-world search applications. By mapping queries and documents into a shared embedding space, they deliver competitive retrieval performance with high efficiency. However, their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Qi Liu , Yanzhao Zhang , Mingxin Li , Dingkun Long , Pengjun Xie , Jiaxin Mao

This paper presents preliminary works on using Word Embedding (word2vec) for query expansion in the context of Personalized Information Retrieval. Traditionally, word embeddings are learned on a general corpus, like Wikipedia. In this work…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Nawal Ould-Amer , Philippe Mulhem , Mathias Gery

Retrieving relevant items that match users' queries from billion-scale corpus forms the core of industrial e-commerce search systems, in which embedding-based retrieval (EBR) methods are prevailing. These methods adopt a two-tower framework…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Binbin Wang , Mingming Li , Zhixiong Zeng , Jingwei Zhuo , Songlin Wang , Sulong Xu , Bo Long , Weipeng Yan

Embedding-based neural retrieval (EBR) is an effective search retrieval method in product search for tackling the vocabulary gap between customer search queries and products. The initial launch of our EBR system at Walmart yielded…

Video understanding plays a fundamental role for content moderation on short video platforms, enabling the detection of inappropriate content. While classification remains the dominant approach for content moderation, it often struggles in…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Hanzhong Liang , Jinghao Shi , Xiang Shen , Zixuan Wang , Vera Wen , Ardalan Mehrani , Zhiqian Chen , Yifan Wu , Zhixin Zhang

Recent research has shown that the performance of search personalization depends on the richness of user profiles which normally represent the user's topical interests. In this paper, we propose a new embedding approach to learning user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Thanh Vu , Dat Quoc Nguyen , Mark Johnson , Dawei Song , Alistair Willis

Embedding-Based Retrieval (EBR) is an important technique in modern search engines, enabling semantic match between search queries and relevant results. However, search logging data on platforms like Facebook Marketplace lacks the diversity…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Ruijie Xi , He Ba , Hao Yuan , Rishu Agrawal , Yuxin Tian , Ruoyan Kong , Arul Prakash

With the rise of social networks, information on the internet is no longer solely organized by web pages. Rather, content is generated and shared among users and organized around their social relations on social networks. This presents new…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Yunzhong He , Wenyuan Li , Liang-Wei Chen , Gabriel Forgues , Xunlong Gui , Sui Liang , Bo Hou

Recommender systems have become an essential component of many online platforms, providing personalized recommendations to users. A crucial aspect is embedding techniques that convert the high-dimensional discrete features, such as user and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Maolin Wang , Xinjian Zhao , Wanyu Wang , Sheng Zhang , Jiansheng Li , Bowen Yu , Binhao Wang , Shucheng Zhou , Dawei Yin , Qing Li , Ruocheng Guo , Xiangyu Zhao
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