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20192025
most citedSky pixel detection in outdoor imagery using an adaptive algorithm and machine learning

27 citations · 88 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.IR2025

Semantic-enhanced Modality-asymmetric Retrieval for Online E-commerce Search

Zhigong Zhou, Ning Ding, Xiaochuan Fan +8

Semantic retrieval, which retrieves semantically matched items given a textual query, has been an essential component to enhance system effectiveness in e-commerce search. In this…

cs.IR2023★ 6 cited

Differentiable Retrieval Augmentation via Generative Language Modeling for E-commerce Query Intent Classification

Chenyu Zhao, Yunjiang Jiang, Yiming Qiu +2

Retrieval augmentation, which enhances downstream models by a knowledge retriever and an external corpus instead of by merely increasing the number of model parameters, has been su…

cs.IR2023★ 11 cited

A Multi-Granularity Matching Attention Network for Query Intent Classification in E-commerce Retrieval

Chunyuan Yuan, Yiming Qiu, Mingming Li +3

Query intent classification, which aims at assisting customers to find desired products, has become an essential component of the e-commerce search. Existing query intent classific…

cs.IR2022★ 1 cited

Pre-training Tasks for User Intent Detection and Embedding Retrieval in E-commerce Search

Yiming Qiu, Chenyu Zhao, Han Zhang +7

BERT-style models pre-trained on the general corpus (e.g., Wikipedia) and fine-tuned on specific task corpus, have recently emerged as breakthrough techniques in many NLP tasks: qu…

cs.IR2022★ 1 cited

Givens Coordinate Descent Methods for Rotation Matrix Learning in Trainable Embedding Indexes

Yunjiang Jiang, Han Zhang, Yiming Qiu +3

Product quantization (PQ) coupled with a space rotation, is widely used in modern approximate nearest neighbor (ANN) search systems to significantly compress the disk storage for e…

cs.IR2021★ 24 cited

Joint Learning of Deep Retrieval Model and Product Quantization based Embedding Index

Han Zhang, Hongwei Shen, Yiming Qiu +6

Embedding index that enables fast approximate nearest neighbor(ANN) search, serves as an indispensable component for state-of-the-art deep retrieval systems. Traditional approaches…

cs.IR2021★ 18 cited

Query Rewriting via Cycle-Consistent Translation for E-Commerce Search

Yiming Qiu, Kang Zhang, Han Zhang +5

Nowadays e-commerce search has become an integral part of many people's shopping routines. One critical challenge in today's e-commerce search is the semantic matching problem wher…

cs.CV2019★ 27 cited

Sky pixel detection in outdoor imagery using an adaptive algorithm and machine learning

Kerry A. Nice, Jasper S. Wijnands, Ariane Middel +7

Computer vision techniques enable automated detection of sky pixels in outdoor imagery. In urban climate, sky detection is an important first step in gathering information about ur…