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Enhancing Language Models' (LMs) ability to understand purchase intentions in E-commerce scenarios is crucial for their effective assistance in various downstream tasks. However, previous approaches that distill intentions from LMs often…

It is often noted that single query-item pair relevance training in search does not capture the customer intent. User intent can be better deduced from a series of engagements (Clicks, ATCs, Orders) in a given search session. We propose a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Navid Mehrdad , Vishal Rathi , Sravanthi Rajanala

Understanding human intent is a complex, high-level task for large language models (LLMs), requiring analytical reasoning, contextual interpretation, dynamic information aggregation, and decision-making under uncertainty. Real-world public…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xiaozhe Li , TianYi Lyu , Siyi Yang , Yuxi Gong , Yizhao Yang , Jinxuan Huang , Ligao Zhang , Zhuoyi Huang , Qingwen Liu

Session-based recommendation (SBR) methods often rely on user behavior data, which can struggle with the sparsity of session data, limiting performance. Researchers have identified that beyond behavioral signals, rich semantic information…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Shutong Qiao , Wei Zhou , Junhao Wen , Chen Gao , Qun Luo , Peixuan Chen , Yong Li

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

Improving user experience and providing personalized search results in E-commerce platforms heavily rely on understanding purchase intention. However, existing methods for acquiring large-scale intentions bank on distilling large language…

Understanding human intent is a high-level cognitive challenge for Large Language Models (LLMs), requiring sophisticated reasoning over noisy, conflicting, and non-linear discourse. While LLMs excel at following individual instructions,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiaozhe Li , Tianyi Lyu , Siyi Yang , Yizhao Yang , Yuxi Gong , Jinxuan Huang , Ligao Zhang , Zhuoyi Huang , Qingwen Liu

Understanding user intentions is essential for improving product recommendations, navigation suggestions, and query reformulations. However, user intentions can be intricate, involving multiple sessions and attribute requirements connected…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jiaxin Bai , Chen Luo , Zheng Li , Qingyu Yin , Yangqiu Song

Session-based recommendation (SBR) aims to predict the following item a user will interact with during an ongoing session. Most existing SBR models focus on designing sophisticated neural-based encoders to learn a session representation,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Minjin Choi , Hye-young Kim , Hyunsouk Cho , Jongwuk Lee

Existing benchmarks in e-commerce primarily focus on basic user intents, such as finding or purchasing products. However, real-world users often pursue more complex goals, such as applying vouchers, managing budgets, and finding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Jiangyuan Wang , Kejun Xiao , Qi Sun , Huaipeng Zhao , Tao Luo , Jian Dong Zhang , Xiaoyi Zeng

User intention which often changes dynamically is considered to be an important factor for modeling users in the design of recommendation systems. Recent studies are starting to focus on predicting user intention (what users want) beyond…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Arpita Chaudhuri , Debasis Samanta , Monalisa Sarma

The goal of session-based recommendation in E-commerce is to predict the next item that an anonymous user will purchase based on the browsing and purchase history. However, constructing global or local transition graphs to supplement…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Xin Liu , Zheng Li , Yifan Gao , Jingfeng Yang , Tianyu Cao , Zhengyang Wang , Bing Yin , Yangqiu Song

An accurate understanding of a user's query intent can help improve the performance of downstream tasks such as query scoping and ranking. In the e-commerce domain, recent work in query understanding focuses on the query to product-category…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Ali Ahmadvand , Surya Kallumadi , Faizan Javed , Eugene Agichtein

Understanding the intent behind chat between customers and customer service agents has become a crucial problem nowadays due to an exponential increase in the use of the Internet by people from different cultures and educational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Bencheng Wei

Recommender systems have played a critical role in diverse digital services such as e-commerce, streaming media, social networks, etc. If we know what a user's intent is in a given session (e.g. do they want to watch short videos or a movie…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Sejoon Oh , Moumita Bhattacharya , Yesu Feng , Sudarshan Lamkhede

Session-based recommendation aims to predict a user's next action based on previous actions in the current session. The major challenge is to capture authentic and complete user preferences in the entire session. Recent work utilizes graph…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Jiayan Guo , Yaming Yang , Xiangchen Song , Yuan Zhang , Yujing Wang , Jing Bai , Yan Zhang

User intent understanding is a crucial step in designing both conversational agents and search engines. Detecting or inferring user intent is challenging, since the user utterances or queries can be short, ambiguous, and contextually…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Ali Ahmadvand

Sequential recommender models are essential components of modern industrial recommender systems. These models learn to predict the next items a user is likely to interact with based on his/her interaction history on the platform. Most…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Bo Chang , Alexandros Karatzoglou , Yuyan Wang , Can Xu , Ed H. Chi , Minmin Chen

Goal-oriented script planning, or the ability to devise coherent sequences of actions toward specific goals, is commonly employed by humans to plan for typical activities. In e-commerce, customers increasingly seek LLM-based assistants to…

Improving the effectiveness of human-robot interaction requires social robots to accurately infer human goals through robust intention understanding. This challenge is particularly critical in multimodal settings, where agents must…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Hamed Rahimi , Clemence Grislain , Adrien Jacquet Cretides , Olivier Sigaud , Mohamed Chetouani
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