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In large-scale ranking systems, cascading architectures have been widely adopted to achieve a balance between efficiency and effectiveness. The pre-ranking module plays a vital role in selecting a subset of candidates for the subsequent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-18 YaChen Yan , Liubo Li

Industrial-scale recommender systems rely on a cascade pipeline in which the retrieval stage must return a high-recall candidate set from billions of items under tight latency. Existing solutions either (i) suffer from limited…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yijia Sun , Shanshan Huang , Zhiyuan Guan , Qiang Luo , Ruiming Tang , Kun Gai , Guorui Zhou

The chronological order of user-item interactions is a key feature in many recommender systems, where the items that users will interact may largely depend on those items that users just accessed recently. However, with the tremendous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Chen Ma , Peng Kang , Xue Liu

Reranking is attracting incremental attention in the recommender systems, which rearranges the input ranking list into the final rank-ing list to better meet user demands. Most existing methods greedily rerank candidates through the rating…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Yufei Feng , Binbin Hu , Yu Gong , Fei Sun , Qingwen Liu , Wenwu Ou

Recent advances in multimodal large reasoning models (MLRMs) have substantially improved their ability to solve complex textual and visual tasks. However, these models tend to overthink on simple problems, producing unnecessarily lengthy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Shuang Chen , Yue Guo , Yimeng Ye , Shijue Huang , Wenbo Hu , Haoxi Li , Manyuan Zhang , Jiayu Chen , Song Guo , Nanyun Peng

Sequential Recommender Systems (SRS) aim to predict users' next interaction based on their historical behaviors, while still facing the challenge of data sparsity. With the rapid advancement of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs),…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Mingyao Huang , Qidong Liu , Wenxuan Yang , Moranxin Wang , Yuqi Sun , Haiping Zhu , Feng Tian , Yan Chen

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become a widely recognized paradigm to combine parametric memory with non-parametric memories. An RAG model consists of two serial connecting components (retriever and generator). A major challenge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Hongyu Cao , Yuxuan Wu , Yucheng Cai , Xianyu Zhao , Zhijian Ou

Recommender systems in multi-behavior domains, such as advertising and e-commerce, aim to guide users toward high-value but inherently sparse conversions. Leveraging auxiliary behaviors (e.g., clicks, likes, shares) is therefore essential.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Zhefan Wang , Guokai Yan , Jinbei Yu , Siyu Gu , Jingyan Chen , Peng Jiang , Zhiqiang Guo , Min Zhang

Ranking model plays an essential role in e-commerce search and recommendation. An effective ranking model should give a personalized ranking list for each user according to the user preference. Existing algorithms usually extract a user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Juan Gong , Zhenlin Chen , Chaoyi Ma , Zhuojian Xiao , Haonan Wang , Guoyu Tang , Lin Liu , Sulong Xu , Bo Long , Yunjiang Jiang

Generative models for Image Super-Resolution (SR) are increasingly powerful, yet their reliance on self-attention's quadratic complexity (O(N^2)) creates a major computational bottleneck. Linear Attention offers an O(N) solution, but its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xiaohui Li , Shaobin Zhuang , Shuo Cao , Yang Yang , Yuandong Pu , Qi Qin , Siqi Luo , Bin Fu , Yihao Liu

Large-scale search, recommendation, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems typically employ a two-stage architecture: an early-stage ranker (ESR) generates a candidate set, which is subsequently re-ranked by a late-stage ranker…

Despite improvements in automatic speech recognition, performance drops with accented speech. Generative error correction (GER) leverages the linguistic knowledge of large language models (LLMs), outperforming typical language model…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Bingshen Mu , Kun Wei , Pengcheng Guo , Lei Xie

Modern large-scale ranking systems operate within a sophisticated landscape of competing objectives, operational constraints, and evolving product requirements. Progress in this domain is increasingly bottlenecked by the engineering context…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Longfei Yun , Yihan Wu , Haoran Liu , Xiaoxuan Liu , Ziyun Xu , Yi Wang , Yang Xia , Pengfei Wang , Mingze Gao , Yunxiang Wang , Changfan Chen , Wenjie Fu , Hong Yan , Junfeng Pan

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems rely heavily on the retrieval stage, particularly the coarse-ranking process. Existing coarse-ranking optimization approaches often struggle to balance domain-specific knowledge learning with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Hao Lin , Peitong Xie , Jingxue Chen , Jie Lin , Qingkun Tang , Qianchun Lu

To accelerate learning process with few samples, meta-learning resorts to prior knowledge from previous tasks. However, the inconsistent task distribution and heterogeneity is hard to be handled through a global sharing model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Geng Li , Boyuan Ren , Hongzhi Wang

In the era of advancing information technology, recommender systems have emerged as crucial tools for dealing with information overload. However, traditional recommender systems still have limitations in capturing the dynamic evolution of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Mingjian Fu , Hengsheng Chen , Dongchun Jiang , Yanchao Tan

The rapid growth of Internet services and mobile devices provides an excellent opportunity to satisfy the strong demand for the personalized item or product recommendation. However, with the tremendous increase of users and items,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-10 Chen Ma , Peng Kang , Bin Wu , Qinglong Wang , Xue Liu

The first-stage retrieval aims to retrieve a subset of candidate documents from a huge collection both effectively and efficiently. Since various matching patterns can exist between queries and relevant documents, previous work tries to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Yinqiong Cai , Yixing Fan , Keping Bi , Jiafeng Guo , Wei Chen , Ruqing Zhang , Xueqi Cheng

As a popular e-commerce platform, Kuaishou E-shop provides precise personalized product recommendations to tens of millions of users every day. To better respond real-time user feedback, we have deployed an interactive recommender system…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Boyang Xia , Ruilin Bao , Hanjun Jiang , Jun Wang , Wenwu Ou

Generative recommender systems are rapidly emerging as a new paradigm for recommendation, where collaborative identifiers and/or multi-modal content are mapped into discrete token spaces and user behavior is modelled with autoregressive…