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Mapping a search query to a set of relevant categories in the product taxonomy is a significant challenge in e-commerce search for two reasons: 1) Training data exhibits severe class imbalance problem due to biased click behavior, and 2)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Ali Ahmadvand , Surya Kallumadi , Faizan Javed , Eugene Agichtein

We revisit the problem of large-scale assortment optimization under the multinomial logit choice model without any assumptions on the structure of the feasible assortments. Scalable real-time assortment optimization has become essential in…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-05-02 Deeksha Sinha , Theja Tulabandhula

Personalized size and fit recommendations bear crucial significance for any fashion e-commerce platform. Predicting the correct fit drives customer satisfaction and benefits the business by reducing costs incurred due to size-related…

Recommendation problems with large numbers of discrete items, such as products, webpages, or videos, are ubiquitous in the technology industry. Deep neural networks are being increasingly used for these recommendation problems. These models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-11 Manas R. Joglekar , Cong Li , Jay K. Adams , Pranav Khaitan , Quoc V. Le

Result relevance scoring is critical to e-commerce search user experience. Traditional information retrieval methods focus on keyword matching and hand-crafted or counting-based numeric features, with limited understanding of item semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Yunjiang Jiang , Yue Shang , Rui Li , Wen-Yun Yang , Guoyu Tang , Chaoyi Ma , Yun Xiao , Eric Zhao

Retrieval systems primarily address the challenge of matching user queries with the most relevant advertisements, playing a crucial role in e-commerce search advertising. The diversity of user needs and expressions often produces massive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Zhenhui Liu , Chunyuan Yuan , Ming Pang , Zheng Fang , Li Yuan , Xue Jiang , Changping Peng , Zhangang Lin , Zheng Luo , Jingping Shao

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

Scalable real-time assortment optimization has become essential in e-commerce operations due to the need for personalization and the availability of a large variety of items. While this can be done when there are simplistic assortment…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Theja Tulabandhula , Deeksha Sinha , Saketh Karra

In this work, we present a multi-modal model for commercial product classification, that combines features extracted by multiple neural network models from textual (CamemBERT and FlauBERT) and visual data (SE-ResNeXt-50), using simple…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Tsegaye Misikir Tashu , Sara Fattouh , Peter Kiss , Tomas Horvath

Reliable product identification from images is a critical requirement in industrial and commercial applications, particularly in maintenance, procurement, and operational workflows where incorrect matches can lead to costly downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Karthik Sulthanpete Govindappa

The rapid growth of e-commerce requires robust multimodal representations that capture diverse signals from user-generated listings. Existing vision-language models (VLMs) typically align titles with primary images, i.e., single-view, but…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Xiwen Chen , Yen-Chieh Lien , Susan Liu , María Castaños , Abolfazl Razi , Xiaoting Zhao , Congzhe Su

Many emerging use cases of data mining and machine learning operate on large datasets with data from heterogeneous sources, specifically with both sparse and dense components. For example, dense deep neural network embedding vectors are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-22 Xiang Wu , Ruiqi Guo , David Simcha , Dave Dopson , Sanjiv Kumar

Accurate query-product relevance labeling is indispensable to generate ground truth dataset for search ranking in e-commerce. Traditional approaches for annotating query-product pairs rely on human-based labeling services, which is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Jayant Sachdev , Sean D Rosario , Abhijeet Phatak , He Wen , Swati Kirti , Chittaranjan Tripathy

Dense retrieval, which encodes queries and documents into a single dense vector, has become the dominant neural retrieval approach due to its simplicity and compatibility with fast approximate nearest neighbor algorithms. As the tasks dense…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Julian Killingback , Mahta Rafiee , Madine Manas , Hamed Zamani

Product classification is the task of automatically predicting a taxonomy path for a product in a predefined taxonomy hierarchy given a textual product description or title. For efficient product classification we require a suitable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Vivek Gupta , Harish Karnick , Ashendra Bansal , Pradhuman Jhala

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

We propose Meta-Prod2vec, a novel method to compute item similarities for recommendation that leverages existing item metadata. Such scenarios are frequently encountered in applications such as content recommendation, ad targeting and web…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-07-26 Flavian Vasile , Elena Smirnova , Alexis Conneau

Multimodal Recommender Systems aim to improve recommendation accuracy by integrating heterogeneous content, such as images and textual metadata. While effective, it remains unclear whether their gains stem from true multimodal understanding…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Claudio Pomo , Matteo Attimonelli , Danilo Danese , Fedelucio Narducci , Tommaso Di Noia

In this paper, we propose a method to identify identical commodities. In e-commerce scenarios, commodities are usually described by both images and text. By definition, identical commodities are those that have identical key attributes and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Chenchen Han , Heng Jia