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In recent years, product categorisation has been a common issue for E-commerce companies who have utilised machine learning to categorise their products automatically. In this study, we propose an ensemble approach, using a combination of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Kieron Drumm

Leveraging generative retrieval (GR) techniques to enhance search systems is an emerging methodology that has shown promising results in recent years. In GR, a text-to-text model maps string queries directly to relevant document identifiers…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Yanjing Wu , Yinfu Feng , Jian Wang , Wenji Zhou , Yunan Ye , Rong Xiao , Jun Xiao

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

In multi-stage recommender systems, reranking optimizes overall utility by capturing intra-list contextual dependencies, yet its central challenge lies in exploring optimal sequences within an exponentially large permutation space. Recent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Chaotian Song , Jingyao Zhang , Chenghao Chen , Zisen Sang , Dehai Zhao , Guodong Cao , Boxi Wu , Deng Cai , Jia Jia

In online marketplaces like Airbnb, users frequently engage in comparison shopping before making purchase decisions. Despite the prevalence of this behavior, a significant disconnect persists between mainstream e-commerce search engines and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Jie Tang , Daochen Zha , Xin Liu , Huiji Gao , Liwei He , Stephanie Moyerman , Sanjeev Katariya

Industrial-scale recommender systems rely on a cascade pipeline in which the retrieval stage must return a high-recall candidate set from billions of items under tight latency. Existing solutions either (i) suffer from limited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yijia Sun , Shanshan Huang , Zhiyuan Guan , Qiang Luo , Ruiming Tang , Kun Gai , Guorui Zhou

In e-commerce shopping, aligning search results with a buyer's immediate needs and preferences presents a significant challenge, particularly in adapting search results throughout the buyer's shopping journey as they move from the initial…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Taoran Sheng , Sathappan Muthiah , Atiq Islam , Jinming Feng

The two primary tasks in the search recommendation system are search relevance matching and click-through rate (CTR) prediction -- the former focuses on seeking relevant items for user queries whereas the latter forecasts which item may…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Rong Chen , Shuzhi Cao , Ailong He , Shuguang Han , Jufeng Chen

As the final stage of recommender systems, re-ranking presents ordered item lists to users that best match their interests. It plays such a critical role and has become a trending research topic with much attention from both academia and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Qunwei Li , Linghui Li , Jianbin Lin , Wenliang Zhong

The key to e-commerce search is how to best utilize the large yet noisy log data. In this paper, we present our embedding-based model for grocery search at Instacart. The system learns query and product representations with a two-tower…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Yuqing Xie , Taesik Na , Xiao Xiao , Saurav Manchanda , Young Rao , Zhihong Xu , Guanghua Shu , Esther Vasiete , Tejaswi Tenneti , Haixun Wang

Personalized search has been a hot research topic for many years and has been widely used in e-commerce. This paper describes our solution to tackle the challenge of personalized e-commerce search at CIKM Cup 2016. The goal of this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Chen Wu , Ming Yan , Luo Si

Traditionally the probabilistic ranking principle is used to rank the search results while the ranking based on expected profits is used for paid placement of ads. These rankings try to maximize the expected utilities based on the user…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Raju Balakrishnan , Subbarao Kambhampati

The CLIP model has established itself as a cornerstone of large-scale retrieval systems. However, its performance often degrades under distributional shifts such as multilingual, long-form, or multimodal queries. To avoid the prohibitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Zhaohua Zhang , Jianhuan Zhuo , Muxi Chen , Chenchen Zhao , Wenyu Jiang , Tianwen Jiang , Mingyang Chen , Yutang , Qiuyong Xiao , Jihong Zhang , Zhixun Su

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) integrates external knowledge to enhance Large Language Models (LLMs), yet systems remain susceptible to two critical flaws: providing correct answers without explicit grounded evidence and producing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yibo Zhao , Jiapeng Zhu , Zichen Ding , Xiang Li

The users often have many product-related questions before they make a purchase decision in E-commerce. However, it is often time-consuming to examine each user review to identify the desired information. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Shiqian Chen , Chenliang Li , Feng Ji , Wei Zhou , Haiqing Chen

Generative Recommendation (GR) has become a promising paradigm for large-scale recommendation systems. However, existing GR models typically perform single-pass decoding without explicit refinement, causing early deviations to accumulate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Haibo Xing , Hao Deng , Lingyu Mu , Jinxin Hu , Yu Zhang , Xiaoyi Zeng , Jing Zhang

E-commerce platforms consistently aim to provide personalized recommendations to drive user engagement, enhance overall user experience, and improve business metrics. Most e-commerce platforms contain multiple carousels on their homepage,…

In the 'Big Data' era, many real-world applications like search involve the ranking problem for a large number of items. It is important to obtain effective ranking results and at the same time obtain the results efficiently in a timely…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-08 Shichen Liu , Fei Xiao , Wenwu Ou , Luo Si

With the rapid growth of e-Commerce, online product search has emerged as a popular and effective paradigm for customers to find desired products and engage in online shopping. However, there is still a big gap between the products that…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Rahul Radhakrishnan Iyer , Rohan Kohli , Shrimai Prabhumoye

The product reviews are posted online in the hundreds and even in the thousands for some popular products. Handling such a large volume of continuously generated online content is a challenging task for buyers, sellers, and even…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Sunil Saumya , Jyoti Prakash Singh , Abdullah Mohammed Baabdullah , Nripendra P. Rana , Yogesh k. Dwivedi