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Real-world vision based applications require fine-grained classification for various area of interest like e-commerce, mobile applications, warehouse management, etc. where reducing the severity of mistakes and improving the classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Sudeep Kumar Sahoo , Sathish Chalasani , Abhishek Joshi , Kiran Nanjunda Iyer

In modern recommender systems, CTR/CVR models are increasingly trained with ranking objectives to improve item ranking quality. While this shift aligns training more closely with serving goals, most existing methods rely on in-batch…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-17 YaChen Yan , Liubo Li , Ravi Choudhary

The hierarchical structure inherent in many real-world datasets makes the modeling of such hierarchies a crucial objective in both unsupervised and supervised machine learning. While recent advancements have introduced deep architectures…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Emanuele Palumbo , Moritz Vandenhirtz , Alain Ryser , Imant Daunhawer , Julia E. Vogt

Online learning systems have multiple data repositories in the form of transcripts, books and questions. To enable ease of access, such systems organize the content according to a well defined taxonomy of hierarchical nature…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Venktesh Viswanathan , Mukesh Mohania , Vikram Goyal

In this era of information explosion, a personalized recommendation system is convenient for users to get information they are interested in. To deal with billions of users and items, large-scale online recommendation services usually…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Xu Yuan , Chen Xu , Qiwei Chen , Chao Li , Junfeng Ge , Wenwu Ou

Multilingual e-commerce search suffers from severe data imbalance across languages, label noise, and limited supervision for low-resource languages--challenges that impede the cross-lingual generalization of relevance models despite the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Yabo Yin , Yang Xi , Jialong Wang , Shanqi Wang , Jiateng Hu

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

Dense retrieval methods typically target unstructured text data represented as flat strings. However, e-commerce catalogs often include structured information across multiple fields, such as brand, title, and description, which contain…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-03 Niklas Freymuth , Dong Liu , Thomas Ricatte , Saab Mansour

Deploying deep neural networks for risk-sensitive tasks necessitates an uncertainty estimation mechanism. This paper introduces hierarchical selective classification, extending selective classification to a hierarchical setting. Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Shani Goren , Ido Galil , Ran El-Yaniv

With the rise of Web 2.0 and microservices, the increasing availability of Web APIs has intensified the need for effective recommendation systems. Existing approaches are generally categorized into two methods: recommendation-type methods,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Zishuo Xu , Yuhong Gu , Dezhong Yao

With the proliferation of the e-commerce industry, analyzing customer feedback is becoming indispensable to a service provider. In recent days, it can be noticed that customers upload the purchased product images with their review scores.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Chandranath Adak , Soumi Chattopadhyay , Muhammad Saqib

Existing unsupervised deep product quantization methods primarily aim for the increased similarity between different views of the identical image, whereas the delicate multi-level semantic similarities preserved between images are…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Zexuan Qiu , Jiahong Liu , Yankai Chen , Irwin King

Prior work has demonstrated that question classification (QC), recognizing the problem domain of a question, can help answer it more accurately. However, developing strong QC algorithms has been hindered by the limited size and complexity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-16 Dongfang Xu , Peter Jansen , Jaycie Martin , Zhengnan Xie , Vikas Yadav , Harish Tayyar Madabushi , Oyvind Tafjord , Peter Clark

The quality of non-default ranking on e-commerce platforms, such as based on ascending item price or descending historical sales volume, often suffers from acute relevance problems, since the irrelevant items are much easier to be exposed…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-25 Yunjiang Jiang , Yue Shang , Hongwei Shen , Wen-Yun Yang , Yun Xiao

Query Segmentation is one of the critical components for understanding users' search intent in Information Retrieval tasks. It involves grouping tokens in the search query into meaningful phrases which help downstream tasks like search…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Ajinkya Kale , Thrivikrama Taula , Sanjika Hewavitharana , Amit Srivastava

Query classification, including multiple subtasks such as intent and category prediction, is vital to e-commerce applications. E-commerce queries are usually short and lack context, and the information between labels cannot be used,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Chunyuan Yuan , Chong Zhang , Zheng Fang , Ming Pang , Xue Jiang , Changping Peng , Zhangang Lin , Ching Law

Many prediction tasks of real-world applications need to model multi-order feature interactions in user's event sequence for better detection performance. However, existing popular solutions usually suffer two key issues: 1) only focusing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Dongbo Xi , Fuzhen Zhuang , Bowen Song , Yongchun Zhu , Shuai Chen , Dan Hong , Tao Chen , Xi Gu , Qing He

Much effort has been devoted to evaluate whether multi-task learning can be leveraged to learn rich representations that can be used in various Natural Language Processing (NLP) down-stream applications. However, there is still a lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Victor Sanh , Thomas Wolf , Sebastian Ruder

Nowadays e-commerce search has become an integral part of many people's shopping routines. One critical challenge in today's e-commerce search is the semantic matching problem where the relevant items may not contain the exact terms in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Yiming Qiu , Kang Zhang , Han Zhang , Songlin Wang , Sulong Xu , Yun Xiao , Bo Long , Wen-Yun Yang

Showing items that do not match search query intent degrades customer experience in e-commerce. These mismatches result from counterfactual biases of the ranking algorithms toward noisy behavioral signals such as clicks and purchases in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Thanh V. Nguyen , Nikhil Rao , Karthik Subbian