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With the rapid evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs), generative recommendation is gradually reshaping the paradigm of recommender systems. However, most existing methods remain confined to the interaction-driven next-item prediction…

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E-commerce platforms have a vast catalog of items to cater to their customers' shopping interests. Most of these platforms assist their customers in the shopping process by offering optimized recommendation carousels, designed to help…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Shanu Vashishtha , Abhay Kumar , Lalitesh Morishetti , Kaushiki Nag , Kannan Achan

E-commerce platforms consistently aim to provide personalized recommendations to drive user engagement, enhance overall user experience, and improve business metrics. Most e-commerce platforms contain multiple carousels on their homepage,…

Generative retrieval offers a promising alternative by unifying the fragmented multi-stage retrieval process into a single end-to-end model. However, its practical adoption in industrial e-commerce search remains challenging, given the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Jianbo Zhu , Xing Fang , Jing Wang , Mingmin Jin , Bokang Wang , Guangxin Song , Zhenyu Xie , Junjie Bai

Structured representation of product information is a major bottleneck for the efficiency of e-commerce platforms, especially in second-hand ecommerce platforms. Currently, most product information are organized based on manually curated…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Haiyang Yang , Qinye Xie , Qingheng Zhang , Liyu Chen , Huike Zou , Chengbao Lian , Shuguang Han , Fei Huang , Jufeng Chen , Bo Zheng

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

To address the challenge of information overload from massive web contents, recommender systems are widely applied to retrieve and present personalized results for users. However, recommendation tasks are inherently constrained to filtering…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Jiongnan Liu , Zhicheng Dou , Ning Hu , Chenyan Xiong

As e-commerce platforms expand their product catalogs, accurately recommending long-tail items becomes increasingly important for enhancing both user experience and platform revenue. A key challenge is the long-tail problem, where extreme…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Qingyi Lu , Haotian Lyu , Jiayun Zheng , Yang Wang , Li Zhang , Chengrui Zhou

E-commerce product pages contain a mix of structured specifications, unstructured reviews, and contextual elements like personalized offers or regional variants. Although informative, this volume can lead to cognitive overload, making it…

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Developing effective and efficient recommendation methods is very challenging for modern e-commerce platforms. Generally speaking, two essential modules named "Click-Through Rate Prediction" (\textit{CTR}) and "Conversion Rate Prediction"…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Hong Wen , Jing Zhang , Quan Lin , Keping Yang , Pipei Huang

In this paper, we investigate the task of aggregating search results from heterogeneous sources in an E-commerce environment. First, unlike traditional aggregated web search that merely presents multi-sourced results in the first page, this…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Ryuichi Takanobu , Tao Zhuang , Minlie Huang , Jun Feng , Haihong Tang , Bo Zheng

When thinking about dressing oneself, people often have a theme in mind whether they're going to a tropical getaway or wish to appear attractive at a cocktail party. A useful outfit generation system should come up with clothing items that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Kedan Li , Chen Liu , David Forsyth

Generative recommendation systems, driven by large language models (LLMs), present an innovative approach to predicting user preferences by modeling items as token sequences and generating recommendations in a generative manner. A critical…

Recommender systems typically retrieve items from an item corpus for personalized recommendations. However, such a retrieval-based recommender paradigm faces two limitations: 1) the human-generated items in the corpus might fail to satisfy…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Wenjie Wang , Xinyu Lin , Fuli Feng , Xiangnan He , Tat-Seng Chua

The end-to-end generative paradigm is revolutionizing advertising recommendation systems, driving a shift from traditional cascaded architectures towards unified modeling. However, practical deployment faces three core challenges: the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Dekai Sun , Yiming Liu , Jiafan Zhou , Xun Liu , Chenchen Yu , Yi Li , Jun Zhang , Huan Yu , Jie Jiang

Conversational user queries are increasingly challenging traditional e-commerce platforms, whose search systems are typically optimized for keyword-based queries. We present an LLM-based semantic search framework that effectively captures…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Emad Siddiqui , Venkatesh Terikuti , Xuan Lu

We address the problem of personalization in the context of eCommerce search. Specifically, we develop personalization ranking features that use in-session context to augment a generic ranker optimized for conversion and relevance. We use a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Grigor Aslanyan , Aritra Mandal , Prathyusha Senthil Kumar , Amit Jaiswal , Manojkumar Rangasamy Kannadasan

Consider a movie studio aiming to produce a set of new movies for summer release: What types of movies it should produce? Who would the movies appeal to? How many movies should it make? Similar issues are encountered by a variety of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Vinh Vo Thanh , Harold Soh

Sequential recommender systems rank relevant items by modeling a user's interaction history and computing the inner product between the resulting user representation and stored item embeddings. To avoid the significant memory overhead of…

Faceted search acts as a critical bridge for navigating massive ecommerce catalogs, yet traditional systems rely on static rule-based extraction or statistical ranking, struggling with emerging vocabulary, semantic gaps, and a disconnect…

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