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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

Information retrieval lies at the foundation of the modern digital industry. While natural language search has seen dramatic progress in recent years largely driven by embedding-based models and large-scale pretraining, the field still…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Adrià Molina , Oriol Ramos Terrades , Josep Lladós

Existing neural relevance models do not give enough consideration for query and item context information which diversifies the search results to adapt for personal preference. To bridge this gap, this paper presents a neural learning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Deguang Kong , Daniel Zhou , Zhiheng Huang , Steph Sigalas

Search engine has become a fundamental component in various web and mobile applications. Retrieving relevant documents from the massive datasets is challenging for a search engine system, especially when faced with verbose or tail queries.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Kuan Fang , Long Zhao , Zhan Shen , RuiXing Wang , RiKang Zhour , LiWen Fan

Existing search engines use keyword matching or tf-idf based matching to map the query to the web-documents and rank them. They also consider other factors such as page rank, hubs-and-authority scores, knowledge graphs to make the results…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-08 Manish Patel

Text embedding representing natural language documents in a semantic vector space can be used for document retrieval using nearest neighbor lookup. In order to study the feasibility of neural models specialized for retrieval in a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-03 Tolgahan Cakaloglu , Christian Szegedy , Xiaowei Xu

We address the problem of personalization in the context of eCommerce search. Specifically, we develop personalization ranking features that use in-session context to augment a generic ranker optimized for conversion and relevance. We use a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Grigor Aslanyan , Aritra Mandal , Prathyusha Senthil Kumar , Amit Jaiswal , Manojkumar Rangasamy Kannadasan

Traditional retrieval methods have been essential for assessing document similarity but struggle with capturing semantic nuances. Despite advancements in latent semantic analysis (LSA) and deep learning, achieving comprehensive semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Solmaz Seyed Monir , Irene Lau , Shubing Yang , Dongfang Zhao

Text embedding models play a cornerstone role in AI applications, such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). While general-purpose text embedding models demonstrate strong performance on generic retrieval benchmarks, their effectiveness…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yubai Wei , Jiale Han , Yi Yang

In this research, we investigate methods for entity retrieval using graph embeddings. While various methods have been proposed over the years, most utilize a single graph embedding and entity linking approach. This hinders our understanding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Emma J. Gerritse , Faegheh Hasibi , Arjen P. de Vries

The ever-increasing size of language models curtails their widespread availability to the community, thereby galvanizing many companies into offering access to large language models through APIs. One particular type, suitable for dense…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Ehsan Kamalloo , Xinyu Zhang , Odunayo Ogundepo , Nandan Thakur , David Alfonso-Hermelo , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Jimmy Lin

Search personalization aims to tailor search results to each specific user based on the user's personal interests and preferences (i.e., the user profile). Recent research approaches to search personalization by modelling the potential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Dai Quoc Nguyen , Thanh Vu , Tu Dinh Nguyen , Dinh Phung

The key to personalized search is to build the user profile based on historical behaviour. To deal with the users who lack historical data, group based personalized models were proposed to incorporate the profiles of similar users when…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-25 Yujia Zhou , Zhicheng Dou , Bingzheng Wei , Ruobing Xievand Ji-Rong Wen

Enterprises grapple with the significant challenge of managing proprietary unstructured data, hindering efficient information retrieval. This has led to the emergence of AI-driven information retrieval solutions, designed to adeptly extract…

In this research, we improve upon the current state of the art in entity retrieval by re-ranking the result list using graph embeddings. The paper shows that graph embeddings are useful for entity-oriented search tasks. We demonstrate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-07 Emma J. Gerritse , Faegheh Hasibi , Arjen P. de Vries

Embeddings extracted by pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) have significant potential to improve information retrieval and search. Beyond the zero-shot setup in which they are being conventionally used, being able to take advantage of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Jinsung Yoon , Sercan O Arik , Yanfei Chen , Tomas Pfister

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

Academic Search is a search task aimed to manage and retrieve scientific documents like journal articles and conference papers. Personalization in this context meets individual researchers' needs by leveraging, through user profiles, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Pranav Kasela , Gabriella Pasi , Raffaele Perego

As user content and queries become increasingly multi-modal, the need for effective multi-modal search systems has grown. Traditional search systems often rely on textual and metadata annotations for indexed images, while multi-modal…

This paper explores entity embedding effectiveness in ad-hoc entity retrieval, which introduces distributed representation of entities into entity retrieval. The knowledge graph contains lots of knowledge and models entity semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Zhenghao Liu , Chenyan Xiong , Maosong Sun , Zhiyuan Liu