arXiv:2607. 29002v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Online shoppers increasingly turn to AI shopping assistants, using images and multi-turn dialogue to express and refine product needs that are difficult to articulate in text alone.
arXiv:2607. 17499v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The evolution of e-commerce has fundamentally transformed how users search for products, shifting from simple text-based keyword queries to complex multimodal interactions that seamlessly combine product images, natural language descriptions, and mixed-intent instructions.
WeAgent-MMSearch introduces a multimodal search agent that preserves retrieved images as persistent references, enabling the model to inspect, process, and cite them throughout a search trajectory. The system includes a harness (WeAgent-Harness), a post‑training method (FA‑GSPO) that recovers salvageable rollouts, and a new benchmark (VisTarget‑Bench) to evaluate image‑retrieval versus visual‑perception failures. Evaluation shows that agentic post‑training boosts performance by 19.22 points, allowing the model to outperform similarly sized open‑source models and compete with much larger ones.
Universal multimodal embeddings are becoming a core component of modern AI systems, enabling heterogeneous content to be represented in a shared space for applications such as retrieval, recommendatio...
arXiv:2608.24053v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Universal multimodal embeddings are becoming a core component of modern AI systems, enabling heterogeneous content to be represented in a shared space...
We present SimpleSearch-VL, an efficient, reliable, and practical framework for multimodal agentic search. Its core idea is to improve the agent's own search-and-verification process rather than scaling data, tools, or auxiliary model components.
arXiv:2606. 17698v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As LLM-based shopping agents enter production, existing benchmarks fail to capture how a shopper's requirements arrive: stated implicitly in the query, recorded in a profile, or revealed only when the right question is asked.
arXiv:2604. 00513v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: With the rapid growth of e-commerce, exploring general representations rather than task-specific ones has attracted increasing attention.
Current instruction-based image retrieval systems are powerful but limited to single-turn interactions, failing to capture the iterative nature of complex, real-world visual searches. To overcome this limitation, we introduce Contextual Composed Image Retrieval (CoCo-IR), a novel task that enables users to progressively refine search results through interactions.
arXiv:2609.14100v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fashion Image Captioning (FIC) plays a vital role in enhancing user experience and product search in e-commerce platforms. Unlike natural scene image...
arXiv:2608. 11604v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language model-based shopping agents are increasingly deployed in real-world e-commerce platforms, generating massive amounts of user interaction logs that provide valuable supervision for improving these agents.
SkillChain is a system designed to automate the lifecycle of skills for image-based AI assistants on e-commerce platforms. It operates in three stages—Skill Creator, Route Optimizer, and Body Refiner—to bootstrap skills from task specifications, align routing, and iteratively refine skill bodies using dual-path LLM-Judge evaluation. In production, SkillChain improves response quality, especially in structural compliance and content quality, and an online A/B test shows increased user engagement, content consumption, and long‑term retention.
arXiv:2508.13186v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: AI agents with advanced reasoning and tool-use capabilities have demonstrated impressive performance in web browsing for deep search. However...