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This report details our methodology and results developed for the Multilingual E-commerce Search Competition. The problem aims to recognize relevance between user queries versus product items in a multilingual context and improve…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Thang-Long Nguyen-Ho , Minh-Khoi Pham , Hoang-Bao Le

Ensuring the products displayed in e-commerce search results are relevant to users queries is crucial for improving the user experience. With their advanced semantic understanding, deep learning models have been widely used for relevance…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Hongwei Shang , Nguyen Vo , Nitin Yadav , Tian Zhang , Ajit Puthenputhussery , Xunfan Cai , Shuyi Chen , Prijith Chandran , Changsung Kang

Cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR) enables access to multilingual knowledge but remains challenging due to disparities in resources, scripts, and weak cross-lingual semantic alignment in embedding models. Existing pipelines often…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Roksana Goworek , Olivia Macmillan-Scott , Eda B. Özyiğit

Complementary product recommendation, which aims to suggest items that are used together to enhance customer value, is a crucial yet challenging task in e-commerce. While existing graph neural network (GNN) approaches have made significant…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Zekun Xu , Yudi Zhang

High-quality multilingual training data is essential for effectively pretraining large language models (LLMs). Yet, the availability of suitable open-source multilingual datasets remains limited. Existing state-of-the-art datasets mostly…

Multilingual proficiency presents a significant challenge for large language models (LLMs). English-centric models are usually suboptimal in other languages, particularly those that are linguistically distant from English. This performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Geyu Lin , Bin Wang , Zhengyuan Liu , Nancy F. Chen

Large Language Models (LLMs) perform well on unseen tasks in English, but their abilities in non English languages are less explored due to limited benchmarks and training data. To bridge this gap, we introduce the Indic QA Benchmark, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Abhishek Kumar Singh , Vishwajeet kumar , Rudra Murthy , Jaydeep Sen , Ashish Mittal , Ganesh Ramakrishnan

The categorization of massive e-Commerce data is a crucial, well-studied task, which is prevalent in industrial settings. In this work, we aim to improve an existing product categorization model that is already in use by a major web…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Guy Horowitz , Stav Yanovsky Daye , Noa Avigdor-Elgrabli , Ariel Raviv

This paper proposes a novel method to improve the accuracy of product search in e-commerce by utilizing a cluster language model. The method aims to address the limitations of the bi-encoder architecture while maintaining a minimal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Duleep Rathgamage Don , Ying Xie , Le Yu , Simon Hughes , Yun Zhu

Large-scale e-commerce search must surface a broad set of items from a vast catalog, ranging from bestselling products to new, trending, or seasonal items. Modern systems therefore rely on multiple specialized retrieval channels to surface…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Aditya Gaydhani , Guangyue Xu , Dhanush Kamath , Ankit Singh , Alex Li

This study presents the multilingual e-commerce search system developed by the DILAB team, which achieved 5th place on the final leaderboard with a competitive overall score of 0.8819, demonstrating stable and high-performing results across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Hyewon Lee , Junghyun Oh , Minkyung Song , Soyoung Park , Seunghoon Han

Nowadays e-commerce search has become an integral part of many people's shopping routines. One critical challenge in today's e-commerce search is the semantic matching problem where the relevant items may not contain the exact terms in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Yiming Qiu , Kang Zhang , Han Zhang , Songlin Wang , Sulong Xu , Yun Xiao , Bo Long , Wen-Yun Yang

Current large language models (LLMs) generally show a significant performance gap in alignment between English and other languages. To bridge this gap, existing research typically leverages the model's responses in English as a reference to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Xue Zhang , Yunlong Liang , Fandong Meng , Songming Zhang , Yufeng Chen , Jinan Xu , Jie Zhou

Cross-lingual knowledge transfer is critical for building high-performing multilingual language models for languages with insufficient training data. When target language data is scarce, the knowledge required for many downstream tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Anastasiia Sedova , Natalie Schluter , Skyler Seto , Maartje ter Hoeve

The search engine plays a fundamental role in online e-commerce systems, to help users find the products they want from the massive product collections. Relevance is an essential requirement for e-commerce search, since showing products…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Shaowei Yao , Jiwei Tan , Xi Chen , Keping Yang , Rong Xiao , Hongbo Deng , Xiaojun Wan

With the increasing use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in fields such as e-commerce, domain-specific concept evaluation benchmarks are crucial for assessing their domain capabilities. Existing LLMs may generate factually incorrect…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Haibin Chen , Kangtao Lv , Chengwei Hu , Yanshi Li , Yujin Yuan , Yancheng He , Xingyao Zhang , Langming Liu , Shilei Liu , Wenbo Su , Bo Zheng

Multilingual large language models (LLMs) often demonstrate a performance gap between English and non-English languages, particularly in low-resource settings. Aligning these models to low-resource languages is essential yet challenging due…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Rakesh Paul , Anusha Kamath , Kanishk Singla , Raviraj Joshi , Utkarsh Vaidya , Sanjay Singh Chauhan , Niranjan Wartikar

Query expansion is the reformulation of a user query by adding semantically related information, and is an essential component of monolingual and cross-lingual information retrieval used to ensure that relevant documents are not missed.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Olivia Macmillan-Scott , Roksana Goworek , Eda B. Özyiğit

E-commerce search engines often rely solely on product titles as input for ranking models with latency constraints. However, this approach can result in suboptimal relevance predictions, as product titles often lack sufficient detail to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Nitin Yadav , Changsung Kang , Hongwei Shang , Ming Sun

E-commerce search serves as a central interface, connecting user demands with massive product inventories and plays a vital role in our daily lives. However, in real-world applications, it faces challenges, including highly ambiguous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Yupeng Li , Ben Chen , Mingyue Cheng , Zhiding Liu , Xuxin Zhang , Chenyi Lei , Wenwu Ou