arXiv AI

From "Who Is This User?" to "What Does This Purchase Mean?": A Deployed Pipeline for Semantic User Profiling at Bank Scale

The paper presents a three‑phase pipeline that shifts semantic user profiling from per‑user to per‑transaction‑pattern inference, dramatically reducing LLM inference costs. The Resolve phase maps item names to abstracts, Profile generates categorical labels, free‑text attributes, and prevalence estimates per pattern, and Tag clusters these attributes into a searchable database. Evaluated on a public e‑commerce corpus, the pattern‑based approach matches the performance of a per‑user LLM while enabling deployment at a major Japanese bank with tens of millions of users and a three‑order‑of‑magnitude reduction in inference targets.

arXiv AI
Sep 2

Autoresearch for Marketplace Catalogs: From Legacy Forms to AI-Native Matching

The paper describes a new approach for two‑sided service marketplaces that replaces fixed request forms with AI‑native probabilistic matching using large language models. It introduces an autoresearch loop that generates a provider‑side preference taxonomy for each occupation, iteratively refining candidate tag sets through a six‑rubric LLM judge and a seven‑critic panel. The system also maps legacy form questions back to the new taxonomy, enabling coverage assessment and human quality assurance.

By Kartik Ravisankar, Hojat Abdolanezhad, Daniel Capo, Sang Su Lee, Shishir Dash, Vijay Anand Raghavan
arXiv AI
Aug 24

TRACE: Agentic Catalog Enrichment with Multi-source Evidence Grounding

TRACE is a new framework that uses agentic Large Language Models to automatically enrich e-commerce product catalogs with missing or buried attributes. It employs a ScoutAgent to gather multimodal evidence from merchant catalogs, syndicated feeds, and web search, and a JudgeAgent to verify and publish the proposed attribute values. In offline evaluation, TRACE achieved 98.2% accuracy with 74.7% coverage, and in production it increased enrichment coverage by 90.4% and boosted checkout conversion by 0.48%.

By Rohan Kumar, Steven Xu, Kyle MacDonald, Matthew Long, Bernice Chow, Mac VanRenterghem, Sudeep Das
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

Behavior2Value: Benchmarking and Empowering LLMs for Consumer Value Measurement from E-commerce Behaviors

The paper introduces the Behavior-to-Value (B2V) task, which seeks to identify consumer values from e-commerce behavioral trajectories. It presents the E-commerce Consumption Value Taxonomy (ECVT) and the B2V-Bench dataset, derived from anonymized Taobao logs and covering 25 purchase behaviors with associated value orientations. A new model, B2V-Verifier, is proposed to improve value measurement accuracy, achieving a 34% boost in multi-label classification over strong LLM baselines.

By Peixuan Hou, Bin Chen, Li He, Jian Xu, Bo Zheng, Xiuli Ma, Guojie Song
arXiv AI
Oct 21

TxnQA: Benchmarking Analytical Reasoning and Evidence Grounding over Transaction Event Sequences

TxnQA is a new analytical QA benchmark that tests reasoning and evidence grounding over transaction event sequences. It contains 27 task families with 81 templates and a 5‑scenario fraud‑risk reasoning suite built on synthetic, privacy‑mitigated transaction data. The benchmark evaluates models using format‑following rate, conditional content accuracy, and end‑to‑end correctness, revealing distinct bottlenecks in schema compliance, semantic calculation, and evidence attribution.

By Rabimba Karanjai, Yiming Bian, Yun-Shiuan Chuang, Jenna L. Ballard, Zijie Pan, Shivani Shekhar, Yixi Li, Yirou Ge, Avinash Thangali, Richard Williamson, Linsey Pang, Prakhar Mehrotra