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In large-scale e-commerce platforms like Taobao, it is a big challenge to retrieve products that satisfy users from billions of candidates. This has been a common concern of academia and industry. Recently, plenty of works in this domain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Yukun Zheng , Jiang Bian , Guanghao Meng , Chao Zhang , Honggang Wang , Zhixuan Zhang , Sen Li , Tao Zhuang , Qingwen Liu , Xiaoyi Zeng

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…

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

Dense retrieval, as the core component of e-commerce search engines, maps user queries and items into a unified semantic space through pre-trained embedding models to enable large-scale real-time semantic retrieval. Despite the rapid…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Xingxian Liu , Dongshuai Li , Jiahui Wan , Tao Wen , Gui Ling , Yuliang Yan , Fuyu Lv , Dan Ou , Haihong Tang , Bo Zheng

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

Query-product relevance prediction is fundamental to e-commerce search and has become even more critical in the era of AI-powered shopping, where semantic understanding and complex reasoning directly shape the user experience and business…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jianhui Yang , Yiming Jin , Pengkun Jiao , Chenhe Dong , Zerui Huang , Shaowei Yao , Xiaojiang Zhou , Dan Ou , Haihong Tang

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

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

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

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

Recommender systems (RSs) have been the most important technology for increasing the business in Taobao, the largest online consumer-to-consumer (C2C) platform in China. The billion-scale data in Taobao creates three major challenges to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Jizhe Wang , Pipei Huang , Huan Zhao , Zhibo Zhang , Binqiang Zhao , Dik Lun Lee

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…

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

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…

Improving recommendation systems (RS) can greatly enhance the user experience across many domains, such as social media. Many RS utilize embedding-based retrieval (EBR) approaches to retrieve candidates for recommendation. In an EBR system,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Matthew Kolodner , Mingxuan Ju , Zihao Fan , Tong Zhao , Elham Ghazizadeh , Yan Wu , Neil Shah , Yozen Liu

New item growth is critical for maintaining a healthy ecosystem in large-scale e-commerce platforms. However, existing systems tend to prioritize presenting users with already popular items, a phenomenon often referred to as the "Matthew…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yifan Wang , Yixuan Wang , YiDan Liang , Qiang Liu , Fei Xiao

In recommendation systems, the matching stage is becoming increasingly critical, serving as the upper limit for the entire recommendation process. Recently, some studies have started to explore the use of multi-scenario information for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Yingcai Ma , Ziyang Wang , Yuliang Yan , Jian Wu , Yuning Jiang , Longbin Li , Wen Chen , Jianhang Huang

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

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…

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