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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

Next basket recommendation, which aims to predict the next a few items that a user most probably purchases given his historical transactions, plays a vital role in market basket analysis. From the viewpoint of item, an item could be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Jingxuan Yang , Jun Xu , Jianzhuo Tong , Sheng Gao , Jun Guo , Jirong Wen

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…

The application of Deep Neural Networks for ranking in search engines may obviate the need for the extensive feature engineering common to current learning-to-rank methods. However, we show that combining simple relevance matching features…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-01-27 Aaron Jaech , Hetunandan Kamisetty , Eric Ringger , Charlie Clarke

In modern e-commerce search systems, dense retrieval has become an indispensable component. By computing similarities between query and item (product) embeddings, it efficiently selects candidate products from large-scale repositories. With…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jianting Tang , Dongshuai Li , Tao Wen , Fuyu Lv , Dan Ou , Linli Xu

In e-commerce shopping, aligning search results with a buyer's immediate needs and preferences presents a significant challenge, particularly in adapting search results throughout the buyer's shopping journey as they move from the initial…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Taoran Sheng , Sathappan Muthiah , Atiq Islam , Jinming Feng

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

Extracting accurate attribute qualities from product titles is a vital component in delivering eCommerce customers with a rewarding online shopping experience via an enriched faceted search. We demonstrate the potential of Deep Recurrent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder , Aditya Subramanian , Abhinandan Krishnan , Shreyansh Gandhi , Ajinkya More

Nowadays e-commerce search has become an integral part of many people's shopping routines. Two critical challenges stay in today's e-commerce search: how to retrieve items that are semantically relevant but not exact matching to query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Han Zhang , Songlin Wang , Kang Zhang , Zhiling Tang , Yunjiang Jiang , Yun Xiao , Weipeng Yan , Wen-Yun Yang

Query categorization is an essential part of query intent understanding in e-commerce search. A common query categorization task is to select the relevant fine-grained product categories in a product taxonomy. For frequent queries, rich…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Ali Ahmadvand , Sayyed M. Zahiri , Simon Hughes , Khalifa Al Jadda , Surya Kallumadi , Eugene Agichtein

Personalized size and fit recommendations bear crucial significance for any fashion e-commerce platform. Predicting the correct fit drives customer satisfaction and benefits the business by reducing costs incurred due to size-related…

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

We present a neural network for predicting purchasing intent in an Ecommerce setting. Our main contribution is to address the significant investment in feature engineering that is usually associated with state-of-the-art methods such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Humphrey Sheil , Omer Rana , Ronan Reilly

Alternative recommender systems are critical for ecommerce companies. They guide customers to explore a massive product catalog and assist customers to find the right products among an overwhelming number of options. However, it is a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Mingming Guo , Nian Yan , Xiquan Cui , San He Wu , Unaiza Ahsan , Rebecca West , Khalifeh Al Jadda

This paper presents a novel approach to predicting buying intent and product demand in e-commerce settings, leveraging a Deep Q-Network (DQN) inspired architecture. In the rapidly evolving landscape of online retail, accurate prediction of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Aditi Madhusudan Jain

E-commerce search systems rely on modeling user behavior to estimate item relevance and user preference, which are typically assumed to be stable and independently learnable signals. However, in practice, user interactions are jointly…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Haoqian Zhang , Ziyuan Yang , Yi Zhang

In e-commerce, a user tends to search for the desired product by issuing a query to the search engine and examining the retrieved results. If the search engine was successful in correctly understanding the user's query, it will return…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Saurav Manchanda , Mohit Sharma , George Karypis

Publications in the life sciences are characterized by a large technical vocabulary, with many lexical and semantic variations for expressing the same concept. Towards addressing the problem of relevance in biomedical literature search, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Sunil Mohan , Nicolas Fiorini , Sun Kim , Zhiyong Lu

In e-commerce search, relevance between query and documents is an essential requirement for satisfying user experience. Different from traditional e-commerce platforms that offer products, users search on life service platforms such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Wen Zan , Yaopeng Han , Xiaotian Jiang , Yao Xiao , Yang Yang , Dayao Chen , Sheng Chen

E-commerce Search Results Pages (SRPs) are evolving from linear lists to complex, non-linear layouts, rendering traditional position-biased ranking models insufficient. Moreover, existing optimization frameworks typically maximize…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Pratik Lahiri , Bingqing Ge , Zhou Qin , Aditya Jumde , Shuning Huo , Lucas Scottini , Yi Liu , Mahmoud Mamlouk , Wenyang Liu