arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 31

Mine and Refine: Optimizing Graded Relevance in E-commerce Semantic Search Retrieval

The paper introduces Mine and Refine, a two‑stage contrastive training framework designed to improve embedding‑based retrieval for large‑scale e‑commerce search. It tackles graded relevance, hard‑sample mining, and unstable similarity separability by using a lightweight LLM as a scalable labeler and a multi‑level circle loss to enforce margin‑controlled separation across relevance levels. The method has been deployed in production across multiple product verticals, yielding statistically significant increases in user engagement, gross order value, and retrieval relevance metrics.

By Jiaqi Xi, Raghav Saboo, Luming Chen, Johny Rufus, Aditya Dodda, Ved Sampath, Kenny Chi, Elyse Winer, Akshad Viswanathan, Martin Wang, Sudeep Das
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

Semantic Retrieval for Product Search in E-Commerce

arXiv:2606. 01504v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Semantic retrieval in e-commerce must handle short, noisy, and colloquial queries over large product catalogs with fine-grained attribute distinctions.

By Nikhil Kothari, Saksham Samdani, Ritam Mallick, Praveen Gupta, Ankit Vijay, Surender Kumar
arXiv AI
Sep 25

Cross-Country Code-Mixing for Generative Recommendation

Cross-Country Code-Mixing for Generative Recommendation (CMRec) is a framework that enhances generative recommendation across different countries by injecting cross-country supervision at the data level. It learns a shared semantic codebook from multi-modal content and behavioral co-occurrence, then synthesizes mixed-country sequences through token-level substitutions that respect both static and dynamic constraints. A context-aware loss reweights these mixed samples based on their plausibility, leading to improved recommendation quality in data-sparse countries while maintaining performance in data-rich markets, as demonstrated by significant gains in advertising revenue and orders in real-world e-commerce experiments.

By Yuan Gao, Hao Deng, Haibo Xing, Yi Xu, Lingyu Mu, Jinxin Hu, Yu Zhang, Xiaoyi Zeng
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28

SMART: LLM-Augmented Hybrid Retrieval for Dynamic Product Ads

arXiv:2607. 23121v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dynamic Product Ads (DPA) require retrieving relevant items from multi-million product catalogs, balancing two competing objectives: retargeting (re-surfacing known interests) and prospecting (discovering new categories).

By Congfei Zhang, Jingxiao Ma, Xiaodong Liu, Hsiang-wei Chao, Siman Wang, Ge Liu, Shantanu Aggarwal, Vincent Zhang, Meghana Missula, Rachel Liao, Zichu Li, Xiao Bai, Yunzhi Zhou, Yajun Wang, Zhe Liu, Jinchao Li, Yu Zhang