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Universal multimodal embedding models have achieved great success in capturing semantic relevance between queries and candidates. However, current methods either condense queries and candidates into a single vector, potentially limiting the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Zilin Xiao , Qi Ma , Mengting Gu , Chun-cheng Jason Chen , Xintao Chen , Vicente Ordonez , Vijai Mohan

In real-world recommender systems, different retrieval objectives are typically addressed using task-specific datasets with carefully designed model architectures. We demonstrate that Large Language Models (LLMs) can function as universal…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Junguang Jiang , Yanwen Huang , Bin Liu , Xiaoyu Kong , Xinhang Li , Ziru Xu , Han Zhu , Jian Xu , Bo Zheng

In this paper, we present a novel model architecture for optimizing personalized product search ranking using a multi-task learning (MTL) framework. Our approach uniquely integrates tabular and non-tabular data, leveraging a pre-trained…

We present the Charles University system for the MRL~2023 Shared Task on Multi-lingual Multi-task Information Retrieval. The goal of the shared task was to develop systems for named entity recognition and question answering in several…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Jindřich Helcl , Jindřich Libovický

Bilingual word embeddings have been widely used to capture the similarity of lexical semantics in different human languages. However, many applications, such as cross-lingual semantic search and question answering, can be largely benefited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Muhao Chen , Yingtao Tian , Haochen Chen , Kai-Wei Chang , Steven Skiena , Carlo Zaniolo

In modern e-commerce search systems, dense retrieval has become an indispensable component. By computing similarities between query and item (product) embeddings, it efficiently selects candidate products from large-scale repositories. With…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jianting Tang , Dongshuai Li , Tao Wen , Fuyu Lv , Dan Ou , Linli Xu

Multimodal document retrieval systems have shown strong progress in aligning visual and textual content for semantic search. However, most existing approaches remain heavily English-centric, limiting their effectiveness in multilingual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Adithya S Kolavi , Vyoman Jain

The rapid advancement of conversational search systems revolutionizes how information is accessed by enabling the multi-turn interaction between the user and the system. Existing conversational search systems are usually built with two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Fengran Mo , Yifan Gao , Chuan Meng , Xin Liu , Zhuofeng Wu , Kelong Mao , Zhengyang Wang , Pei Chen , Zheng Li , Xian Li , Bing Yin , Meng Jiang

Embedding-based neural retrieval (EBR) is an effective search retrieval method in product search for tackling the vocabulary gap between customer search queries and products. The initial launch of our EBR system at Walmart yielded…

Words have been represented in a high-dimensional vector space that encodes their semantic similarities, enabling downstream applications such as retrieving synonyms, antonyms, and relevant contexts. However, despite recent advances in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Genta Indra Winata , Ruochen Zhang , David Ifeoluwa Adelani

Multilingual dense retrieval aims to retrieve relevant documents across different languages based on a unified retriever model. The challenge lies in aligning representations of different languages in a shared vector space. The common…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Chao Huang , Fengran Mo , Yufeng Chen , Changhao Guan , Zhenrui Yue , Xinyu Wang , Jinan Xu , Kaiyu Huang

The key to e-commerce search is how to best utilize the large yet noisy log data. In this paper, we present our embedding-based model for grocery search at Instacart. The system learns query and product representations with a two-tower…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Yuqing Xie , Taesik Na , Xiao Xiao , Saurav Manchanda , Young Rao , Zhihong Xu , Guanghua Shu , Esther Vasiete , Tejaswi Tenneti , Haixun Wang

We introduce Uni4D, a unified framework for large scale open vocabulary 3D retrieval and controlled 4D generation based on structured three level alignment across text, 3D models, and image modalities. Built upon the Align3D 130 dataset,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Philip Xu

E-commerce voice ordering systems need to recognize multiple product name entities from ordering utterances. Existing voice ordering systems such as Amazon Alexa can capture only a single product name entity. This restrains users from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Praneeth Gubbala , Xuan Zhang

Tables contain valuable knowledge in a structured form. We employ neural language modeling approaches to embed tabular data into vector spaces. Specifically, we consider different table elements, such caption, column headings, and cells,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Li Deng , Shuo Zhang , Krisztian Balog

The text retrieval is the task of retrieving similar documents to a search query, and it is important to improve retrieval accuracy while maintaining a certain level of retrieval speed. Existing studies have reported accuracy improvements…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Yuichi Sasazawa , Kenichi Yokote , Osamu Imaichi , Yasuhiro Sogawa

Text embedding models serve as a fundamental component in real-world search applications. By mapping queries and documents into a shared embedding space, they deliver competitive retrieval performance with high efficiency. However, their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Qi Liu , Yanzhao Zhang , Mingxin Li , Dingkun Long , Pengjun Xie , Jiaxin Mao

Product ranking is a crucial component for many e-commerce services. One of the major challenges in product search is the vocabulary mismatch between query and products, which may be a larger vocabulary gap problem compared to other…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Xuyang Wu , Alessandro Magnani , Suthee Chaidaroon , Ajit Puthenputhussery , Ciya Liao , Yi Fang

We consider the problem of scaling automated suggested replies for Outlook email system to multiple languages. Faced with increased compute requirements and low resources for language expansion, we build a single universal model for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Qianlan Ying , Payal Bajaj , Budhaditya Deb , Yu Yang , Wei Wang , Bojia Lin , Milad Shokouhi , Xia Song , Yang Yang , Daxin Jiang

Tables on the Web contain a vast amount of knowledge in a structured form. To tap into this valuable resource, we address the problem of table retrieval: answering an information need with a ranked list of tables. We investigate this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Shuo Zhang , Krisztian Balog