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Extreme Classification (XC) aims to map a query to the most relevant documents from a very large document set. XC algorithms used in real-world applications learn this mapping from datasets curated from implicit feedback, such as user…

Online job ads serve as a valuable source of information for skill requirements, playing a crucial role in labor market analysis and e-recruitment processes. Since such ads are typically formatted in free text, natural language processing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Jens-Joris Decorte , Severine Verlinden , Jeroen Van Hautte , Johannes Deleu , Chris Develder , Thomas Demeester

The relevance between a query and a document in search can be represented as matching degree between the two objects. Latent space models have been proven to be effective for the task, which are often trained with click-through data. One…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-04-22 Shuxin Wang , Xin Jiang , Hang Li , Jun Xu , Bin Wang

We consider the problem of retrieving and ranking items in an eCommerce catalog, often called SKUs, in order of relevance to a user-issued query. The input data for the ranking are the texts of the queries and textual fields of the SKUs…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Eliot Brenner , Jun Zhao , Aliasgar Kutiyanawala , Zheng Yan

In enterprise search, building high-quality datasets at scale remains a central challenge due to the difficulty of acquiring labeled data. To resolve this challenge, we propose an efficient approach to fine-tune small language models (SLMs)…

The extreme multi-label classification (XMC) task aims at tagging content with a subset of labels from an extremely large label set. The label vocabulary is typically defined in advance by domain experts and assumed to capture all necessary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-13 Daniel Simig , Fabio Petroni , Pouya Yanki , Kashyap Popat , Christina Du , Sebastian Riedel , Majid Yazdani

Extreme Multi-label text Classification (XMC) is a task of finding the most relevant labels from a large label set. Nowadays deep learning-based methods have shown significant success in XMC. However, the existing methods (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Ting Jiang , Deqing Wang , Leilei Sun , Huayi Yang , Zhengyang Zhao , Fuzhen Zhuang

Discovering the intended items of user queries from a massive repository of items is one of the main goals of an e-commerce search system. Relevance prediction is essential to the search system since it helps improve performance. When…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Jiong Cai , Yong Jiang , Yue Zhang , Chengyue Jiang , Ke Yu , Jianhui Ji , Rong Xiao , Haihong Tang , Tao Wang , Zhongqiang Huang , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Kewei Tu

Mapping a search query to a set of relevant categories in the product taxonomy is a significant challenge in e-commerce search for two reasons: 1) Training data exhibits severe class imbalance problem due to biased click behavior, and 2)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Ali Ahmadvand , Surya Kallumadi , Faizan Javed , Eugene Agichtein

Multi-label classification problems with thousands of classes are hard to solve with in-context learning alone, as language models (LMs) might lack prior knowledge about the precise classes or how to assign them, and it is generally…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Karel D'Oosterlinck , Omar Khattab , François Remy , Thomas Demeester , Chris Develder , Christopher Potts

Large Language Models (LLMs) are a class of generative AI models built using the Transformer network, capable of leveraging vast datasets to identify, summarize, translate, predict, and generate language. LLMs promise to revolutionize…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Chunhe Ni , Jiang Wu , Hongbo Wang , Wenran Lu , Chenwei Zhang

In-context learning enables language models (LM) to adapt to downstream data or tasks by incorporating few samples as demonstrations within the prompts. It offers strong performance without the expense of fine-tuning. However, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Jian Gu , Aldeida Aleti , Chunyang Chen , Hongyu Zhang

In this paper, we present a novel model architecture for optimizing personalized product search ranking using a multi-task learning (MTL) framework. Our approach uniquely integrates tabular and non-tabular data, leveraging a pre-trained…

Traditional sparse and dense retrieval methods struggle to leverage general world knowledge and often fail to capture the nuanced features of queries and products. With the advent of large language models (LLMs), industrial search systems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Ming Pang , Chunyuan Yuan , Xiaoyu He , Zheng Fang , Donghao Xie , Fanyi Qu , Xue Jiang , Changping Peng , Zhangang Lin , Ching Law , Jingping Shao

This paper proposes a novel method to improve the accuracy of product search in e-commerce by utilizing a cluster language model. The method aims to address the limitations of the bi-encoder architecture while maintaining a minimal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Duleep Rathgamage Don , Ying Xie , Le Yu , Simon Hughes , Yun Zhu

Enterprise search systems often struggle to retrieve accurate, domain-specific information due to semantic mismatches and overlapping terminologies. These issues can degrade the performance of downstream applications such as knowledge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hansa Meghwani , Amit Agarwal , Priyaranjan Pattnayak , Hitesh Laxmichand Patel , Srikant Panda

Classification is a common AI problem, and vector search is a typical solution. This transforms a given body of text into a numerical representation, known as an embedding, and modern improvements to vector search focus on optimising speed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Lee Harris

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

Merchandise categories inherently form a semantic hierarchy with different levels of concept abstraction, especially for fine-grained categories. This hierarchy encodes rich correlations among various categories across different levels,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Shuo Yang , Wei Yu , Ying Zheng , Hongxun Yao , Tao Mei

The goal of natural language semantic code search is to retrieve a semantically relevant code snippet from a fixed set of candidates using a natural language query. Existing approaches are neither effective nor efficient enough towards a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Akhilesh Deepak Gotmare , Junnan Li , Shafiq Joty , Steven C. H. Hoi