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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Yuanmin Tang , Jing Yu , Keke Gai , Yujing Wang , Yue Hu , Gang Xiong , Qi Wu

Accurately retrieving relevant bid keywords for user queries is critical in Sponsored Search but remains challenging, particularly for short, ambiguous queries. Existing dense and generative retrieval models often fail to capture nuanced…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Akash Kumar Mohankumar , Gururaj K , Gagan Madan , Amit Singh

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

BERT-style models pre-trained on the general corpus (e.g., Wikipedia) and fine-tuned on specific task corpus, have recently emerged as breakthrough techniques in many NLP tasks: question answering, text classification, sequence labeling and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Yiming Qiu , Chenyu Zhao , Han Zhang , Jingwei Zhuo , Tianhao Li , Xiaowei Zhang , Songlin Wang , Sulong Xu , Bo Long , Wen-Yun Yang

Query and product relevance prediction is a critical component for ensuring a smooth user experience in e-commerce search. Traditional studies mainly focus on BERT-based models to assess the semantic relevance between queries and products.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Tian Tang , Zhixing Tian , Zhenyu Zhu , Chenyang Wang , Haiqing Hu , Guoyu Tang , Lin Liu , Sulong Xu

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

Enterprises grapple with the significant challenge of managing proprietary unstructured data, hindering efficient information retrieval. This has led to the emergence of AI-driven information retrieval solutions, designed to adeptly extract…

Search advertising is essential for merchants to reach the target users on short video platforms. Short video ads aligned with user search intents are displayed through relevance matching and bid ranking mechanisms. This paper focuses on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Guobing Gan , Kaiming Gao , Li Wang , Shen Jiang , Peng Jiang

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

We consider the problem of semantic matching in product search: given a customer query, retrieve all semantically related products from a huge catalog of size 100 million, or more. Because of large catalog spaces and real-time latency…

In this paper, we study multiple problems from sponsored product optimization in ad system, including position-based de-biasing, click-conversion multi-task learning, and calibration on predicted click-through-rate (pCTR). We propose a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Yanbing Xue , Bo Liu , Weizhi Du , Jayanth Korlimarla , Musen Men

Sponsored search in E-commerce platforms such as Amazon, Taobao and Tmall provides sellers an effective way to reach potential buyers with most relevant purpose. In this paper, we study the auction mechanism optimization problem in…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2018-08-02 Gang Bai , Zhihui Xie , Liang Wang

Sponsored search ads appear next to search results when people look for products and services on search engines. In recent years, they have become one of the most lucrative channels for marketing. As the fundamental basis of search ads,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Chaozhuo Li , Bochen Pang , Yuming Liu , Hao Sun , Zheng Liu , Xing Xie , Tianqi Yang , Yanling Cui , Liangjie Zhang , Qi Zhang

Discovering the intended items of user queries from a massive repository of items is one of the main goals of an e-commerce search system. Relevance prediction is essential to the search system since it helps improve performance. When…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-07-21 Jiong Cai , Yong Jiang , Yue Zhang , Chengyue Jiang , Ke Yu , Jianhui Ji , Rong Xiao , Haihong Tang , Tao Wang , Zhongqiang Huang , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Kewei Tu

In modern digital marketing, the growing complexity of advertisement data demands intelligent systems capable of understanding semantic relationships among products, audiences, and advertising content. To address this challenge, this paper…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Tangtang Wang , Kaijie Zhang , Kuangcong Liu

With the rise of social networks, information on the internet is no longer solely organized by web pages. Rather, content is generated and shared among users and organized around their social relations on social networks. This presents new…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Yunzhong He , Wenyuan Li , Liang-Wei Chen , Gabriel Forgues , Xunlong Gui , Sui Liang , Bo Hou

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

The major task of any e-commerce search engine is to retrieve the most relevant inventory items, which best match the user intent reflected in a query. This task is non-trivial due to many reasons, including ambiguous queries, misaligned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Md. Ahsanul Kabir , Mohammad Al Hasan , Aritra Mandal , Liyang Hao , Ishita Khan , Daniel Tunkelang , Zhe Wu

Semantic relevance calculation is crucial for e-commerce search engines, as it ensures that the items selected closely align with customer intent. Inadequate attention to this aspect can detrimentally affect user experience and engagement.…

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