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Modern e-commerce search is inherently multimodal: customers make purchase decisions by jointly considering product text and visual informations. However, most industrial retrieval and ranking systems primarily rely on textual information,…

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Traditional e-commerce search systems often struggle with the semantic gap between user queries and product catalogs. In this paper, we propose a Category-Aligned Retrieval System (CARS) that improves search relevance by first predicting…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Rauf Aliev

In the rapidly evolving field of e-commerce, the effectiveness of search re-ranking models is crucial for enhancing user experience and driving conversion rates. Despite significant advancements in feature representation and model…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Enqiang Xu , Xinhui Li , Zhigong Zhou , Jiahao Ji , Jinyuan Zhao , Dadong Miao , Songlin Wang , Lin Liu , Sulong Xu

Conventional methods for query autocompletion aim to predict which completed query a user will select from a list. A shortcoming of this approach is that users often do not know which query will provide the best retrieval performance on the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Adam Block , Rahul Kidambi , Daniel N. Hill , Thorsten Joachims , Inderjit S. Dhillon

Result relevance prediction is an essential task of e-commerce search engines to boost the utility of search engines and ensure smooth user experience. The last few years eyewitnessed a flurry of research on the use of Transformer-style…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Ziyang Liu , Zhaomeng Cheng , Yunjiang Jiang , Yue Shang , Wei Xiong , Sulong Xu , Bo Long , Di Jin

Recommendation systems are an important units in today's e-commerce applications, such as targeted advertising, personalized marketing and information retrieval. In recent years, the importance of contextual information has motivated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Tal Hadad

Ranking ensemble is a critical component in real recommender systems. When a user visits a platform, the system will prepare several item lists, each of which is generally from a single behavior objective recommendation model. As multiple…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Jiayu Li , Peijie Sun , Zhefan Wang , Weizhi Ma , Yangkun Li , Min Zhang , Zhoutian Feng , Daiyue Xue

Unbiased learning to rank (ULTR), which aims to learn unbiased ranking models from biased user behavior logs, plays an important role in Web search. Previous research on ULTR has studied a variety of biases in users' clicks, such as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Zechun Niu , Lang Mei , Liu Yang , Ziyuan Zhao , Qiang Yan , Jiaxin Mao , Ji-Rong Wen

E-commerce websites use machine learned ranking models to serve shopping results to customers. Typically, the websites log the customer search events, which include the query entered and the resulting engagement with the shopping results,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-19 Priya Gupta , Cuize Han

In this paper, we revisit the problem of product item classification for large-scale e-commerce catalogs. The taxonomy of e-commerce catalogs consists of thousands of genres to which are assigned items that are uploaded by merchants on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Hotaka Shiokawa , Pradipto Das , Arthur Toth , Justin Chiu

This study aims to inspect and evaluate the integration of database queries and their use in e-commerce product searches. It has been observed that e-commerce is one of the most prominent trends, which have been emerged in the business…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-07-04 Mohd Muntjir , Ahmad Tasnim Siddiqui

The review-based recommender systems are commonly utilized to measure users preferences towards different items. In this paper, we focus on addressing three main problems existing in the review-based methods. Firstly, these methods suffer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-14 Yuexin Wu , Tianyu Gao , Sihao Wang , Zhongmin Xiong

This paper presents a novel approach to predicting buying intent and product demand in e-commerce settings, leveraging a Deep Q-Network (DQN) inspired architecture. In the rapidly evolving landscape of online retail, accurate prediction of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Aditi Madhusudan Jain

Tasks such as search and recommendation have become increas- ingly important for E-commerce to deal with the information over- load problem. To meet the diverse needs of di erent users, person- alization plays an important role. In many…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-29 Yabo Ni , Dan Ou , Shichen Liu , Xiang Li , Wenwu Ou , Anxiang Zeng , Luo Si

User and product information associated with a review is useful for sentiment polarity prediction. Typical approaches incorporating such information focus on modeling users and products as implicitly learned representation vectors. Most do…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Chenyang Lyu , Linyi Yang , Yue Zhang , Yvette Graham , Jennifer Foster

Finding relevant products given a user query is pivotal to an e-commerce platform, as it can drive shopping behavior and generate revenue. The challenge lies in accurately predicting the correlation between queries and products. Recently,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Ge Zhang , Rohan Deepak Ajwani , Yaochen Hu , Tony Zheng , Hongjian Gu , Wei Guo , Mark Coates , Yingxue Zhang

We present QueryNER, a manually-annotated dataset and accompanying model for e-commerce query segmentation. Prior work in sequence labeling for e-commerce has largely addressed aspect-value extraction which focuses on extracting portions of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Chester Palen-Michel , Lizzie Liang , Zhe Wu , Constantine Lignos

With the increasing demand for predictable and accountable Artificial Intelligence, the ability to explain or justify recommender systems results by specifying how items are suggested, or why they are relevant, has become a primary goal.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Noemi Mauro , Zhongli Filippo Hu , Liliana Ardissono

The retrieval-ranking paradigm has long dominated e-commerce search, but its reliance on query-item matching fundamentally misaligns with multi-stage cognitive decision processes of platform users. This misalignment introduces critical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Zhouwei Zhai , Mengxiang Chen , Haoyun Xia , Jin Li , Renquan Zhou , Min Yang

Web search engines are frequently used to access information about products. This has increased in recent times with the rising popularity of e-commerce. However, there is limited understanding of what users search for and their intents…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Nikitha Rao , Chetan Bansal , Subhabrata Mukherjee , Chandra Maddila