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We investigate the scalable image classification problem with a large number of categories. Hierarchical visual data structures are helpful for improving the efficiency and performance of large-scale multi-class classification. We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Yanyun Qu , Li Lin , Fumin Shen , Chang Lu , Yang Wu , Yuan Xie , Dacheng Tao

Information retrieval is a core component of many intelligent systems as it enables conditioning of outputs on new and large-scale datasets. While effective, the standard practice of encoding data into high-dimensional representations for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Shubham Gupta , Zichao Li , Tianyi Chen , Cem Subakan , Siva Reddy , Perouz Taslakian , Valentina Zantedeschi

Hierarchical clustering is a class of algorithms that seeks to build a hierarchy of clusters. It has been the dominant approach to constructing embedded classification schemes since it outputs dendrograms, which capture the hierarchical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-28 Xiaofei Ma , Satya Dhavala

Retrieving all semantically relevant products from the product catalog is an important problem in E-commerce. Compared to web documents, product catalogs are more structured and sparse due to multi-instance fields that encode heterogeneous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Jason Ingyu Choi , Surya Kallumadi , Bhaskar Mitra , Eugene Agichtein , Faizan Javed

Label hierarchy is an important source of external knowledge that can enhance classification performance. However, most existing methods rely on predefined label hierarchies that may not match the data distribution. To address this issue,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Zhiquan Tan , Zihao Wang , Yifan Zhang

Analyzing large-scale datasets, especially involving complex and high-dimensional data like images, is particularly challenging. While self-supervised learning (SSL) has proven effective for learning representations from unlabelled data, it…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Tianru Zhang , Li Ju , Prashant Singh , Salman Toor

Hierarchical text classification (HTC) is the task of assigning labels to a text within a structured space organized as a hierarchy. Recent works treat HTC as a conventional multilabel classification problem, therefore evaluating it as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-14 Roman Plaud , Matthieu Labeau , Antoine Saillenfest , Thomas Bonald

In the dynamic realm of online recruitment, accurate job classification is paramount for optimizing job recommendation systems, search rankings, and labor market analyses. As job markets evolve, the increasing complexity of job titles and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Md Ahsanul Kabir , Kareem Abdelfatah , Mohammed Korayem , Mohammad Al Hasan

In hierarchical text classification, we perform a sequence of inference steps to predict the category of a document from top to bottom of a given class taxonomy. Most of the studies have focused on developing novels neural network…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Kervy Rivas Rojas , Gina Bustamante , Arturo Oncevay , Marco A. Sobrevilla Cabezudo

In modern multilabel classification problems, each data instance belongs to a small number of classes from a large set of classes. In other words, these problems involve learning very sparse binary label vectors. Moreover, in large-scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Shashanka Ubaru , Sanjeeb Dash , Arya Mazumdar , Oktay Gunluk

Answer selection is a task to choose the positive answers from a pool of candidate answers for a given question. In this paper, we propose a novel strategy for answer selection, called hierarchical ranking. We introduce three levels of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Hang Gao , Mengting Hu , Renhong Cheng , Tiegang Gao

Online educational platforms organize academic questions based on a hierarchical learning taxonomy (subject-chapter-topic). Automatically tagging new questions with existing taxonomy will help organize these questions into different classes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-23 Venktesh V , Mukesh Mohania , Vikram Goyal

The categorization of massive e-Commerce data is a crucial, well-studied task, which is prevalent in industrial settings. In this work, we aim to improve an existing product categorization model that is already in use by a major web…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Guy Horowitz , Stav Yanovsky Daye , Noa Avigdor-Elgrabli , Ariel Raviv

Relational data sources are still one of the most popular ways to store enterprise or Web data, however, the issue with relational schema is the lack of a well-defined semantic description. A common ontology provides a way to represent the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Natalia Ruemmele , Yuriy Tyshetskiy , Alex Collins

Inspired by the human ability to learn and organize knowledge into hierarchical taxonomies with prototypes, this paper addresses key limitations in current deep hierarchical clustering methods. Existing methods often tie the structure to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Zekun Wang , Ethan Haarer , Tianyi Zhu , Zhiyi Dai , Christopher J. MacLellan

E-commerce search and recommendation usually operate on structured data such as product catalogs and taxonomies. However, creating better search and recommendation systems often requires a large variety of unstructured data including…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Haixun Wang , Taesik Na

In this uncertain world, data uncertainty is inherent in many applications and its importance is growing drastically due to the rapid development of modern technologies. Nowadays, researchers have paid more attention to mine patterns in…

This study addresses critical industrial challenges in e-commerce product categorization, namely platform heterogeneity and the structural limitations of existing taxonomies, by developing and deploying a multimodal hierarchical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Lotte Gross , Rebecca Walter , Nicole Zoppi , Adrien Justus , Alessandro Gambetti , Qiwei Han , Maximilian Kaiser

The focus of this paper is on the evaluation of sixteen labeling methods for hierarchical document clusters over five datasets. All of the methods are independent from clustering algorithms, applied subsequently to the dendrogram…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-28 Maria Fernanda Moura , Fabiano Fernandes dos Santos , Solange Oliveira Rezende

Generative retrieval introduces a groundbreaking paradigm to document retrieval by directly generating the identifier of a pertinent document in response to a specific query. This paradigm has demonstrated considerable benefits and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Mingming Li , Huimu Wang , Zuxu Chen , Guangtao Nie , Yiming Qiu , Guoyu Tang , Lin Liu , Jingwei Zhuo