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In recommender systems, it is well-established that both accuracy and diversity are crucial for generating high-quality recommendation lists. However, achieving a balance between these two typically conflicting objectives remains a…

Kuaishou serves over 400 million daily active users, processing hundreds of millions of search queries daily against a repository of tens of billions of short videos. As the final decision layer, the reranking stage determines user…

Visual document retrieval aims to retrieve a set of document pages relevant to a query from visually rich collections. Existing methods often employ Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to encode queries and visual pages into a shared embedding…

Large language models (LLMs) are probabilistic in nature and perform more reliably when augmented with external information. As complex queries often require multi-step reasoning over the retrieved information, with no clear or…

Alphanumeric identifiers such as manufacturer part numbers (MPNs), SKUs, and model codes are ubiquitous in e-commerce catalogs and search. These identifiers are sparse, non linguistic, and highly sensitive to tokenization and typographical…

Federated recommendations (FRs) have emerged as an on-device privacy-preserving paradigm, attracting considerable attention driven by rising demands for data security. Existing FRs predominantly adapt ID embeddings to represent items,…

In recommender systems, collecting, storing, and processing large-scale interaction data is increasingly costly in terms of time, energy, and computation, yet it remains unclear when additional data stops providing meaningful gains. This…

Large-scale industrial recommenders typically use a fixed multi-stage pipeline (recall, ranking, re-ranking) and have progressed from collaborative filtering to deep and large pre-trained models. However, both multi-stage and so-called One…

AutoModel is an agent based architecture for the full lifecycle of industrial recommender systems. Instead of a fixed recall and ranking pipeline, AutoModel organizes recommendation as a set of interacting evolution agents with long term…

Standard protocols such as the Model Context Protocol (MCP) that allow LLMs to connect to tools have recently boosted "agentic" AI applications, which, powered by LLMs' planning capabilities, promise to solve complex tasks with the access…

Large language models (LLMs) enable a new form of advertising for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems in which organic responses are blended with contextually relevant ads. The prospect of such "generated native ads" has sparked…

Multimodal retrieval models fail on reasoning-intensive queries where images (diagrams, charts, screenshots) must be deeply integrated with text to identify relevant documents -- the best multimodal model achieves only 27.6 nDCG@10 on…

Multimodal retrieval systems struggle to resolve image-text queries against text-only corpora: the best vision-language encoder achieves only 27.6 nDCG@10 on MM-BRIGHT, underperforming strong text-only retrievers. We argue the bottleneck is…

Multimodal retrieval over text corpora remains a fundamental challenge: the best vision-language encoder achieves only 27.6 nDCG@10 on MM-BRIGHT, a reasoning-intensive multimodal retrieval benchmark, underperforming strong text-only…

Developing effective, domain-specific educational support systems is central to advancing AI in education. Although large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable capabilities, they face significant limitations in specialized…

Specialized web tasks in finance, biomedicine, and pharmaceuticals remain challenging due to missing domain priors: queries drift, evidence is noisy, and reasoning is brittle. We present WebExpert, a domain-aware web agent that we implement…

We present an empirical study of embedding-based retrieval under realistic conversational settings, where queries are short, dialogue-like, and weakly specified, and retrieval corpora contain structured conversational artifacts. Focusing on…

Legal QA benchmarks have predominantly focused on case law, overlooking the unique challenges of statute-centric regulatory reasoning. In statutory domains, relevant evidence is distributed across hierarchically linked documents, creating a…

Cold-start cross-domain recommender (CDR) systems predict a user's preferences in a target domain using only their source-domain behavior, yet existing CDR models either map opaque embeddings or rely on post-hoc or LLM-generated rationales…

Legal information retrieval in Portuguese remains difficult to evaluate systematically because available datasets differ widely in document type, query style, and relevance definition. We present JU\'A, a public benchmark for Brazilian…