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As the demand for more personalized recommendation grows and a dramatic boom in commercial scenarios arises, the study on multi-scenario recommendation (MSR) has attracted much attention, which uses the data from all scenarios to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Yuhao Wang , Yichao Wang , Zichuan Fu , Xiangyang Li , Xiangyu Zhao , Huifeng Guo , Ruiming Tang

Industrial recommender systems increasingly adopt multi-scenario learning (MSL) and multi-task learning (MTL) to handle diverse user interactions and contexts, but existing approaches suffer from two critical drawbacks: (1) underutilization…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Shanlei Mu , Yuchen Jiang , Shikang Wu , Shiyong Hong , Tianmu Sha , Junjie Zhang , Jie Zhu , Zhe Chen , Zhe Wang , Jingjian Lin

Search and recommendation are the two most common approaches used by people to obtain information. They share the same goal -- satisfying the user's information need at the right time. There are already a lot of Internet platforms and Apps…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Jing Yao , Zhicheng Dou , Ruobing Xie , Yanxiong Lu , Zhiping Wang , Ji-Rong Wen

Search and recommendation systems are essential in many services, and they are often developed separately, leading to complex maintenance and technical debt. In this paper, we present a unified deep learning model that efficiently handles…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Moumita Bhattacharya , Vito Ostuni , Sudarshan Lamkhede

In web search, mutual influences between documents have been studied from the perspective of search result diversification. But the methods in web search is not directly applicable to e-commerce search because of their differences. And…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-03-28 Tao Zhuang , Wenwu Ou , Zhirong Wang

User interests on content platforms are inherently diverse, manifesting through complex behavioral patterns across heterogeneous scenarios such as search, feed browsing, and content discovery. Traditional recommendation systems typically…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Manjie Xu , Cheng Chen , Xin Jia , Jingyi Zhou , Yongji Wu , Zejian Wang , Chi Zhang , Kai Zuo , Yibo Chen , Xu Tang , Yao Hu , Yixin Zhu

The confluence of Search and Recommendation (S&R) services is vital to online services, including e-commerce and video platforms. The integration of S&R modeling is a highly intuitive approach adopted by industry practitioners. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-22 Zhongxiang Sun , Zihua Si , Xiaoxue Zang , Dewei Leng , Yanan Niu , Yang Song , Xiao Zhang , Jun Xu

Unbiased Learning to Rank (ULTR) that learns to rank documents with biased user feedback data is a well-known challenge in information retrieval. Existing methods in unbiased learning to rank typically rely on click modeling or inverse…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Dan Luo , Lixin Zou , Qingyao Ai , Zhiyu Chen , Dawei Yin , Brian D. Davison

When doing private domain marketing with cloud services, the merchants usually have to purchase different machine learning models for the multiple marketing purposes, leading to a very high cost. We present a unified user-item matching…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Qifang Zhao , Tianyu Li , Meng Du , Yu Jiang , Qinghui Sun , Zhongyao Wang , Hong Liu , Huan Xu

Generative recommendation has emerged as a promising paradigm, demonstrating remarkable results in both academic benchmarks and industrial applications. However, existing systems predominantly focus on unifying retrieval and ranking while…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Huimin Yan , Longfei Xu , Junjie Sun , Ni Ou , Wei Luo , Xing Tan , Ran Cheng , Kaikui Liu , Xiangxiang Chu

Recommender systems (RS) play a core role in various domains, including business analytics, helping users and companies make appropriate decisions. To optimize service quality, related technologies focus on constructing user profiles by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Hui Zhang , Jiayu Liu

Existing multi-label ranking (MLR) frameworks only exploit information deduced from the bipartition of labels into positive and negative sets. Therefore, they do not benefit from ranking among positive labels, which is the novel MLR…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 V. Bugra Yesilkaynak , Emine Dari , Alican Mertan , Gozde Unal

Product ranking is a crucial component for many e-commerce services. One of the major challenges in product search is the vocabulary mismatch between query and products, which may be a larger vocabulary gap problem compared to other…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Xuyang Wu , Alessandro Magnani , Suthee Chaidaroon , Ajit Puthenputhussery , Ciya Liao , Yi Fang

Fashion image retrieval is a cornerstone of modern e-commerce systems. A unified framework that supports diverse query formats and search intentions is highly desired in practice. However, existing approaches focus on narrow retrieval tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Haokun Wen , Xuemeng Song , Xinghao Xie , Xiaolin Chen , Xiangyu Zhao , Weili Guan

In this work, we devote ourselves to the challenging task of Unsupervised Multi-view Representation Learning (UMRL), which requires learning a unified feature representation from multiple views in an unsupervised manner. Existing UMRL…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Yiyang Zhou , Qinghai Zheng , Shunshun Bai , Jihua Zhu

Recommender Systems (RS) often rely on representations of users and items in a joint embedding space and on a similarity metric to compute relevance scores. In modern RS, the modules to obtain user and item representations consist of two…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Marta Moscati , Shah Nawaz , Markus Schedl

Sequential recommender systems (SRS) aim to predict users' subsequent choices based on their historical interactions and have found applications in diverse fields such as e-commerce and social media. However, in real-world systems, most…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Qidong Liu , Xian Wu , Yejing Wang , Zijian Zhang , Feng Tian , Yefeng Zheng , Xiangyu Zhao

Search relevance plays a central role in web e-commerce. While large language models (LLMs) have shown significant results on relevance task, existing benchmarks lack sufficient complexity for comprehensive model assessment, resulting in an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Chenji Lu , Zhuo Chen , Hui Zhao , Zhenyi Wang , Pengjie Wang , Chuan Yu , Jian Xu

Summarization quality evaluation is a non-trivial task in text summarization. Contemporary methods can be mainly categorized into two scenarios: (1) reference-based: evaluating with human-labeled reference summary; (2) reference-free:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Shen Gao , Zhitao Yao , Chongyang Tao , Xiuying Chen , Pengjie Ren , Zhaochun Ren , Zhumin Chen

Large language models have been widely applied to sequential recommendation tasks, yet during inference, they continue to rely on decoding strategies developed for natural language processing. This creates a mismatch between text-generation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Chenke Yin , Li Fan , Jia Wang , Dongxiao Hu , Haichao Zhang , Chong Zhang , Yang Xiang