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Product ranking is the core problem for revenue-maximizing online retailers. To design proper product ranking algorithms, various consumer choice models are proposed to characterize the consumers' behaviors when they are provided with a…

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Multi-objective preference alignment of large language models (LLMs) is critical for developing AI systems that are more configurable, personalizable, helpful, and safe. However, optimizing model outputs to satisfy diverse objectives with…

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Personalized product search aims to retrieve and rank items that match users' preferences and search intent. Despite their effectiveness, existing approaches typically assume that users' query fully captures their real motivation. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Weicong Qin , Yi Xu , Weijie Yu , Chenglei Shen , Ming He , Jianping Fan , Xiao Zhang , Jun Xu

Industrial recommendation systems are typically composed of multiple stages, including retrieval, ranking, and blending. The retrieval stage plays a critical role in generating a high-recall set of candidate items that covers a wide range…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zhibo Fan , Hongtao Lin , Haoyu Chen , Bowen Deng , Hedi Xia , Yuke Yan , James Li

Traditional information retrieval (IR) methods excel at textual and semantic matching but struggle in reasoning-intensive retrieval tasks that require multi-hop inference or complex semantic understanding between queries and documents. One…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Xubo Qin , Jun Bai , Jiaqi Li , Zixia Jia , Zilong Zheng

Process discovery approaches analyze the business data to automatically uncover structured information, known as a process model. The quality of a process model is measured using quality dimensions -- completeness (replay fitness),…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Sonia Deshmukh , Shikha Gupta , Naveen Kumar

Ranking relevance is a fundamental task in search engines, aiming to identify the items most relevant to a given user query. Traditional relevance models typically produce scalar scores or directly predict relevance labels, limiting both…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Ziyang Zeng , Heming Jing , Jindong Chen , Xiangli Li , Hongyu Liu , Yixuan He , Zhengyu Li , Yige Sun , Zheyong Xie , Yuqing Yang , Shaosheng Cao , Jun Fan , Yi Wu , Yao Hu

Information retrieval systems have traditionally relied on exact term match methods such as BM25 for first-stage retrieval. However, recent advancements in neural network-based techniques have introduced a new method called dense retrieval.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Ahmed H. Salamah , Pierre McWhannel , Nicole Yan

Personalized product search (PPS) aims to retrieve products relevant to the given query considering user preferences within their purchase histories. Since large language models (LLM) exhibit impressive potential in content understanding…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Beibei Zhang , Yanan Lu , Ruobing Xie , Zongyi Li , Siyuan Xing , Tongwei Ren , Fen Lin

Large language models (LLMs) fine-tuned with alignment techniques, such as reinforcement learning from human feedback, have been instrumental in developing some of the most capable AI systems to date. Despite their success, existing methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Kyuyoung Kim , Ah Jeong Seo , Hao Liu , Jinwoo Shin , Kimin Lee

In recent years, text-to-speech (TTS) has seen impressive advancements through large-scale language models, achieving human-level speech quality. Integrating human feedback has proven effective for enhancing robustness in these systems.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Kangxiang Xia , Xinfa Zhu , Jixun Yao , Lei Xie

In online marketplaces, search ranking's objective is not only to purchase or conversion (primary objective), but to also the purchase outcomes(secondary objectives), e.g. order cancellation(or return), review rating, customer service…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Jie Tang , Huiji Gao , Liwei He , Sanjeev Katariya

Modern industrial recommendation systems improve recommendation performance by integrating multimodal representations from pre-trained models into ID-based Click-Through Rate (CTR) prediction frameworks. However, existing approaches…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Alin Fan , Hanqing Li , Sihan Lu , Jingsong Yuan , Jiandong Zhang

Accurately assessing post quality requires complex relational reasoning to capture nuanced topic-post relationships. However, existing studies face three major limitations: (1) treating the task as unimodal categorization, which fails to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Xiaoxu Guo , Siyan Liang , Yachao Cui , Juxiang Zhou , Lei Wang , Han Cao

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have enabled unified multimodal understanding and generation. However, they still struggle with fine-grained text-image alignment, often failing to faithfully depict objects with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yoonjin Oh , Yongjin Kim , Hyomin Kim , Donghwan Chi , Sungwoong Kim

The task adaptation and alignment of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have been significantly advanced by instruction tuning and further strengthened by recent preference optimization. Yet, most LMMs still suffer from severe modality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Chenxi Liu , Tianyi Xiong , Yanshuo Chen , Ruibo Chen , Yihan Wu , Junfeng Guo , Tianyi Zhou , Heng Huang

With the rapid evolution of large language models, retrieval enhanced generation technology has been widely used due to its ability to integrate external knowledge to improve output accuracy. However, the performance of the system is highly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Ruoxin Zhang , Zhizhao Wen , Chao Wang , Chenchen Tang , Puyang Xu , Yifan Jiang

Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) provide a structured framework for decision-making under uncertainty, but their application requires efficient belief updates. Sequential Importance Resampling Particle Filters…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Jiho Lee , Nisar R. Ahmed , Kyle H. Wray , Zachary N. Sunberg

Multi-Task Fusion plays a pivotal role in industrial short-video search systems by aggregating heterogeneous prediction signals into a unified ranking score. However, existing approaches predominantly optimize for immediate engagement…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Renzhe Zhou , Songyang Li , Feiran Zhu , Chenglei Dai , Yi Zhang , Yi Wang , Jingwei Zhuo

We propose a multi-precision extension of the Quadratic Regularization (R2) algorithm that enables it to take advantage of low-precision computations, and by extension to decrease energy consumption during the solve. The lower the precision…

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