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We propose a robust classifier to predict buying intentions based on user behaviour within a large e-commerce website. In this work we compare traditional machine learning techniques with the most advanced deep learning approaches. We show…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Armando Vieira

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…

Recommendation for e-commerce with a mix of durable and nondurable goods has characteristics that distinguish it from the well-studied media recommendation problem. The demand for items is a combined effect of form utility and time utility,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Jinfeng Yi , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Kush Varshney , Lijun Zhang , Yao Li

Finding relevant products given a user query is pivotal to an e-commerce platform, as it can drive shopping behavior and generate revenue. The challenge lies in accurately predicting the correlation between queries and products. Recently,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Ge Zhang , Rohan Deepak Ajwani , Yaochen Hu , Tony Zheng , Hongjian Gu , Wei Guo , Mark Coates , Yingxue Zhang

Accurate explicit and implicit product identification in search queries is critical for enhancing user experiences, especially at a company like Adobe which has over 50 products and covers queries across hundreds of tools. In this work, we…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Sanat Sharma , Jayant Kumar , Twisha Naik , Zhaoyu Lu , Arvind Srikantan , Tracy Holloway King

Complementary recommendations play a crucial role in e-commerce by enhancing user experience through suggestions of compatible items. Accurate classification of complementary item relationships requires reliable labels, but their creation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Chihiro Yamasaki , Kai Sugahara , Kazushi Okamoto

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

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

We consider the problem of semantic matching in product search: given a customer query, retrieve all semantically related products from a huge catalog of size 100 million, or more. Because of large catalog spaces and real-time latency…

In recommender systems, popularity and conformity biases undermine recommender effectiveness by disproportionately favouring popular items, leading to their over-representation in recommendation lists and causing an unbalanced distribution…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Zhirong Huang , Shichao Zhang , Debo Cheng , Jiuyong Li , Lin Liu , Guixian Zhang

In this paper, we present our work towards comparing on-line and off-line evaluation metrics in the context of small e-commerce recommender systems. Recommending on small e-commerce enterprises is rather challenging due to the lower volume…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Ladislav Peska , Peter Vojtas

Recommendation systems are ubiquitous, from Spotify playlist suggestions to Amazon product suggestions. Nevertheless, depending on the methodology or the dataset, these systems typically fail to capture user preferences and generate general…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Angela John , Theophilus Aidoo , Hamayoon Behmanush , Irem B. Gunduz , Hewan Shrestha , Maxx Richard Rahman , Wolfgang Maaß

Cross domain recommender systems have been increasingly valuable for helping consumers identify useful items in different applications. However, existing cross-domain models typically require large number of overlap users, which can be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Pan Li , Alexander Tuzhilin

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success in various fields, prompting several studies to explore their potential in recommendation systems. However, these attempts have so far resulted in only modest improvements over…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Junyi Chen , Lu Chi , Bingyue Peng , Zehuan Yuan

Building robust online content recommendation systems requires learning complex interactions between user preferences and content features. The field has evolved rapidly in recent years from traditional multi-arm bandit and collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-08 Yoel Zeldes , Stavros Theodorakis , Efrat Solodnik , Aviv Rotman , Gil Chamiel , Dan Friedman

We present opinion recommendation, a novel task of jointly predicting a custom review with a rating score that a certain user would give to a certain product or service, given existing reviews and rating scores to the product or service by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Zhongqing Wang , Yue Zhang

E-commerce dominates a large part of the world's economy with many websites dedicated to online selling products. The vast majority of e-commerce websites provide their customers with the ability to express their opinions about the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Abdalraheem Alsmadi , Shadi AlZu'bi , Mahmoud Al-Ayyoub , Yaser Jararweh

Unlike Business-to-Consumer e-commerce platforms (e.g., Amazon), inexperienced individual sellers on Consumer-to-Consumer platforms (e.g., eBay) often face significant challenges in setting prices for their second-hand products efficiently.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Hairu Wang , Sheng You , Qiheng Zhang , Xike Xie , Shuguang Han , Yuchen Wu , Fei Huang , Jufeng Chen

The behavior of users in certain services could be a clue that can be used to infer their preferences and may be used to make recommendations for other services they have never used. However, the cross-domain relationships between items and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Heishiro Kanagawa , Hayato Kobayashi , Nobuyuki Shimizu , Yukihiro Tagami , Taiji Suzuki

With the advent of deep learning, neural network-based recommendation models have emerged as an important tool for tackling personalization and recommendation tasks. These networks differ significantly from other deep learning networks due…