arXiv:2607. 22518v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this paper, we propose a new solution for addressing the content cold-start problem in industry-scale search and recommender systems.
arXiv:2607. 12392v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Optimizing large-scale retrieval hinges on the ability to efficiently surface candidates across diverse content tiers.
arXiv:2609.23877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern music streaming platforms face a persistent tradeoff: exploiting familiar content versus driving the exploration of novel items. While users fre...
SPADE (Serendipitous Pareto Distance Evaluation) is a new metric for recommender systems that simultaneously considers item similarity, popularity, and user relevance. It projects items into a two‑dimensional space and computes a user‑specific Pareto frontier of maximally popular and historically similar items, then averages the minimum Euclidean distance from this frontier for correctly recommended test‑set items. Experiments on five datasets and five baseline algorithms demonstrate that SPADE effectively discourages algorithms from exploiting accuracy‑only metrics and reliably isolates serendipitous discoveries.
arXiv:2608. 02446v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Relevance evaluation plays a crucial role in personalized search systems, serving as a guardrail alongside user engagement metrics to ensure that search results align with user queries and intent.
arXiv:2606. 04550v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: E-commerce recommender systems strongly influence which products users consider and purchase, yet sustainability signals such as Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) are almost never available at catalog scale.
arXiv:2607. 14161v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pinterest is where people turn inspiration into action as users browse ideas, then take steps toward realization, often by discovering shoppable content.
arXiv:2606. 06779v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In multi-vertical e-commerce platforms like DoorDash, relatively newer product verticals such as grocery and retail present a significant opportunity for personalization innovation.
arXiv:2608. 15780v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Stale recommendations are a pervasive challenge and a leading source of user complaints on large-scale content platforms.
arXiv:2607. 27577v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Heterogeneous recommendation feeds present complex challenges that extend beyond those found in highly homogeneous environments (e.
RPTune is an end‑to‑end framework that improves in‑context catalog search for small merchant businesses by learning to curate product catalogs and fine‑tuning large language models (LLMs) with catalog‑grounded supervision. It uses an encoder‑reorganizer curator to order and prune products based on LLM feedback, and then applies context‑relative rewards during LLM post‑training. Across seven real merchants and 100 complex conversational queries per merchant, RPTune boosts search accuracy by up to 31.4 percentage points from curation alone and an additional 10.3 points on average from post‑training.
arXiv:2602. 23234v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large-scale commercial search systems optimize for relevance to drive successful sessions that help users find what they are looking for.
arXiv:2603.01590v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Content-driven platforms such as Xiaohongshu often leverage click-through rate (CTR) prediction models for recommendation. However, these mod...