arXiv AI

Agentic Share-of-Search: A Multi-Agent AI System for Competitive Decision-Making in LLM-Mediated E-Commerce

The paper introduces Agentic Share-of-Search (ASoS), a multi‑agent AI system designed to aid sellers in competitive decision‑making within large‑language‑model (LLM) mediated e‑commerce. It automates competitive visibility measurement and root‑cause diagnosis by deploying query agents on leading AI platforms and employing a ReAct‑based diagnostic agent to suggest prioritized merchandising actions. A 100‑trial ablation study demonstrates the prototype’s effectiveness, recovering the ablated signal in 39% of trials (95% CI: 30.0%‑48.8%) and 63.9% in high‑correlation cases, outperforming chance by 5.5×.

arXiv AI
Aug 20

Bridging Search and CRM: Productionizing AI Product Research Agents for Customer Re-Engagement

The paper introduces a production-ready framework that connects e‑commerce search and CRM systems via AI‑powered Product Research Agents. These agents detect users with exploratory purchase intent, perform multi‑agent research using behavioral data, external knowledge, and catalog information, and then send personalized product recommendations through WhatsApp. In a 23‑day deployment, the system sent about 15,000 notifications, achieving higher click‑through rates than standard campaigns and generating downstream purchases and GMV gains.

By Mandar Kulkarni, Pooja A., Samir Shah
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 AI
Sep 24

Shopping by algorithm: How agentic AI deploys human heuristics as a surrogate consumer

The study investigates how Large Language Models (LLMs) acting as surrogate consumers are influenced by marketing pricing cues such as just‑below pricing and promotional framing. Using a tool called "Tool‑Lab" to trace information acquisition, the researchers found that when no cost is imposed, pricing cues rarely mislead LLMs, but when acquisition costs are introduced under a vague goal prompt, LLMs tend to omit important diagnostic attributes and make suboptimal choices similar to human heuristics. The findings suggest that marketing heuristics in AI‑driven shopping are shaped more by storefront information architecture than by inherent LLM limitations.

By Davood Wadi, Yu Ma
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Sep 24

Advancing Model Research in AgentX: Long-Horizon Autonomy for Industrial Recommender Systems

Advancing Model Research in AgentX: Long-Horizon Autonomy for Industrial Recommender Systems introduces AgentX-Model, a dual-agent framework that links proposal development with model experimentation in business-defined sandboxes. The Research Agent drafts proposals from literature and findings, while the Model Agent runs multi‑round experiments, returning code, metrics, and open questions. The framework cycles through Reproduce, Follow‑up, Composition, and Diagnose actions, achieving high AUC gains and significant business metric improvements in online A/B tests.

arXiv AI
Sep 25

Advancing Model Research in AgentX: Long-Horizon Autonomy for Industrial Recommender Systems

The paper introduces AgentX-Model, a dual‑agent framework that links proposal development with model experimentation in industrial recommender systems. The Research Agent drafts proposals from literature and prior findings, while the Model Agent runs multi‑round experiments, returning code, metrics, and open questions. The framework iteratively selects starting implementations and formulates new research questions, organizing work into Reproduce, Follow‑up, Composition, and Diagnose actions. Across production evaluations, most experiments exceeded business baselines, with recent A/B tests showing significant gains in acquisition efficiency, advertising spend, and watch time while reducing computational cost.

By Shuang Yang, Zijie Zhuang, Changxin Lao, Pengbo Xu, Hanwen Xu, Yusheng Huang, Han Gao, Guanchen Wang, Tianbao Ma, Linxun Chen, Peilin Song, Xuming Wang, Chen Li, Fan Wu, Tao Wang, Zibo Zhao, Xiangyu Wu, An Liu, Fei Pan, Peng Jiang, Chen Yang, Zhaojie Liu, Wenwu Ou