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Building a recommendation system that serves billions of users on daily basis is a challenging problem, as the system needs to make astronomical number of predictions per second based on real-time user behaviors with O(1) time complexity.…

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Designers rely on visual search to explore and develop ideas in early design stages. However, designers can struggle to identify suitable text queries to initiate a search or to discover images for similarity-based search that can…

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Recommendation systems can provide accurate recommendations by analyzing user shopping history. A richer user history results in more accurate recommendations. However, in real applications, users prefer e-commerce platforms where the item…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Irem Islek , Sule Gunduz Oguducu

Sequential recommendation (SR) is traditionally formulated as next-item prediction over a chronological sequence of interacted items. Although recent generative recommendation (GR) methods introduce new machinery, such as semantic IDs,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yingyi Zhang , Junyi Li , Yejing Wang , Wenlin Zhang , Xiaowei Qian , Sheng Zhang , Yue Feng , Yichao Wang , Yong Liu , Xiangyu Zhao , Xianneng Li

We propose a novel recommender framework, MuSTRec (Multimodal and Sequential Transformer-based Recommendation), that unifies multimodal and sequential recommendation paradigms. MuSTRec captures cross-item similarities and collaborative…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Bucher Sahyouni , Matthew Vowels , Liqun Chen , Simon Hadfield

Kuaishou serves over 400 million daily active users, processing hundreds of millions of search queries daily against a repository of tens of billions of short videos. As the final decision layer, the reranking stage determines user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Chao Zhang , Shuai Lin , ChengLei Dai , Ye Qian , Fan Mingyang , Yi Zhang , Yi Wang , Jingwei Zhuo

Sequential recommender systems explore users' preferences and behavioral patterns from their historically generated data. Recently, researchers aim to improve sequential recommendation by utilizing massive user-generated multi-modal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Meng Yan , Haibin Huang , Ying Liu , Juan Zhao , Xiyue Gao , Cai Xu , Ziyu Guan , Wei Zhao

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

In a multi-stage recommendation system, reranking plays a crucial role in modeling intra-list correlations among items. A key challenge lies in exploring optimal sequences within the combinatorial space of permutations. Recent research…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Zhijie Lin , Zhuofeng Li , Chenglei Dai , Wentian Bao , Shuai Lin , Enyun Yu , Haoxiang Zhang , Liang Zhao

A key distinguishing feature of conversational recommender systems over traditional recommender systems is their ability to elicit user preferences using natural language. Currently, the predominant approach to preference elicitation is to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Ivica Kostric , Krisztian Balog , Filip Radlinski

Modeling user sequential behaviors has recently attracted increasing attention in the recommendation domain. Existing methods mostly assume coherent preference in the same sequence. However, user personalities are volatile and easily…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Weiqi Shao , Xu Chen , Long Xia , Jiashu Zhao , Dawei Yin

Traditional sequential recommendation methods assume that users' sequence data is clean enough to learn accurate sequence representations to reflect user preferences. In practice, users' sequences inevitably contain noise (e.g., accidental…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Chi Zhang , Qilong Han , Rui Chen , Xiangyu Zhao , Peng Tang , Hongtao Song

Personalized search ranking systems are critical for driving engagement and revenue in modern e-commerce and short-video platforms. While existing methods excel at estimating users' broad interests based on the filtered historical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Qinyao Li , Xiaoyang Zheng , Qihang Zhao , Ke Xu , Zhongbo Sun , Chao Wang , Chenyi Lei , Han Li , Wenwu Ou

In this abstract we present a series of optimizations we performed on the two-tower model architecture [14], and training and evaluation datasets to implement semantic product search at Best Buy. Search queries on bestbuy.com follow the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Akshay Kekuda , Yuyang Zhang , Arun Udayashankar

Cross-market recommendation aims to recommend products to users in a resource-scarce target market by leveraging user behaviors from similar rich-resource markets, which is crucial for E-commerce companies but receives less research…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Zeyuan Chen , He Wang , Xiangyu Zhu , Haiyan Wu , Congcong Gu , Shumeng Liu , Jinchao Huang , Wei Zhang

We introduce MOON, our comprehensive set of sustainable iterative practices for multimodal representation learning for e-commerce applications. MOON has already been fully deployed across all stages of Taobao search advertising system,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Chenghan Fu , Daoze Zhang , Yukang Lin , Zhanheng Nie , Xiang Zhang , Jianyu Liu , Yueran Liu , Wanxian Guan , Pengjie Wang , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng

Conversational recommender systems (CRSs) aim to proactively capture user preferences through natural language dialogue and recommend high-quality items. To achieve this, CRS gathers user preferences via a dialog module and builds user…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Zhenye Yang , Jinpeng Chen , Huan Li , Xiongnan Jin , Xuanyang Li , Junwei Zhang , Hongbo Gao , Kaimin Wei , Senzhang Wang

Structured representation of product information is a major bottleneck for the efficiency of e-commerce platforms, especially in second-hand ecommerce platforms. Currently, most product information are organized based on manually curated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Haiyang Yang , Qinye Xie , Qingheng Zhang , Liyu Chen , Huike Zou , Chengbao Lian , Shuguang Han , Fei Huang , Jufeng Chen , Bo Zheng

This study introduces CUPID, a novel approach to session-based reciprocal recommendation systems designed for a real-time one-on-one social discovery platform. In such platforms, low latency is critical to enhance user experiences. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Beomsu Kim , Sangbum Kim , Minchan Kim , Joonyoung Yi , Sungjoo Ha , Suhyun Lee , Youngsoo Lee , Gihun Yeom , Buru Chang , Gihun Lee

Food recommendation systems serve as pivotal components in the realm of digital lifestyle services, designed to assist users in discovering recipes and food items that resonate with their unique dietary predilections. Typically, multi-modal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yixin Zhang , Xin Zhou , Qianwen Meng , Fanglin Zhu , Yonghui Xu , Zhiqi Shen , Lizhen Cui