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most citedUniECS: Unified Multimodal E-Commerce Search Framework with Gated Cross-modal Fusion

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cs.IR2026

OneRetrieval: Unifying Multi-Branch E-commerce Retrieval with an Editable Generative Model

Xuxin Zhang, Ben Chen, Yue Lv +13

Industrial e-commerce search serves hundreds of millions of items through a multi-branch retrieval stage fused by hand-tuned merging without joint optimization. Generative retrieva…

cs.IR2026

OneBar: An End-to-End Content-Grounded Generative Query Recommendation Framework for E-Commerce Video Feeds

Yao Tang, Ying Yang, Ben Chen +5

Short-video platforms now expose clickable search entries beneath the video player, enabling users to easily express content-induced search intent. However, conventional query reco…

cs.AI2026

Plan Before Search: Search Agents Need Plan

Zhipeng Qian, Zihan Liang, Yufei Ma +7

Training large language models as retrieval-augmented reasoning agents typically combines reinforcement learning with an SFT cold start distilled from a stronger model. However, th…

cs.AI2026

Search-E1: Self-Distillation Drives Self-Evolution in Search-Augmented Reasoning

Zihan Liang, Yufei Ma, Ben Chen +4

Post-training has become the dominant recipe for turning a language model into a competent search-augmented reasoning agent. A line of recent work pushes its performance further by…

cs.AI2026

SVFSearch: A Multimodal Knowledge-Intensive Benchmark for Short-Video Frame Search in the Gaming Vertical Domain

Lingtao Mao, Huangyu Dai, Xinyu Sun +4

Multimodal large language models are increasingly used as agent backbones that understand multimodal inputs, plan retrieval actions, invoke external tools, and reason over retrieve…

cs.IR2026

TIGER-FG: Text-Guided Implicit Fine-Grained Grounding for E-commerce Retrieval

Xinyu Sun, Huangyu Dai, Lingtao Mao +5

E-commerce image search often takes a cropped image as the query, while each candidate is represented by full item images and structured text. This image-to-multimodal retrieval se…

cs.AI2026

SD-Search: On-Policy Hindsight Self-Distillation for Search-Augmented Reasoning

Yufei Ma, Zihan Liang, Ben Chen +6

Search-augmented reasoning agents interleave internal reasoning with calls to an external retriever, and their performance relies on the quality of each issued query. However, unde…

cs.AI2026

Bian Que: An Agentic Framework with Flexible Skill Arrangement for Online System Operations

Bochao Liu, Zhipeng Qian, Yang Zhao +10

Operating and maintaining (O&M) large-scale online engine systems (eg, search, recommendation and advertising) demands substantial human effort for release monitoring, alert respon…

cs.AI2026

IG-Search: Step-Level Information Gain Rewards for Search-Augmented Reasoning

Zihan Liang, Yufei Ma, Ben Chen +6

Reinforcement learning has emerged as an effective paradigm for training large language models to perform search-augmented reasoning. However, existing approaches rely on trajector…

cs.IR2026

OneSearch-V2: The Latent Reasoning Enhanced Self-distillation Generative Search Framework

Ben Chen, Siyuan Wang, Yufei Ma +20

Generative Retrieval (GR) has emerged as a promising paradigm for modern search systems. Compared to multi-stage cascaded architecture, it offers advantages such as end-to-end join…

cs.CV2026

CSMCIR: CoT-Enhanced Symmetric Alignment with Memory Bank for Composed Image Retrieval

Zhipeng Qian, Zihan Liang, Yufei Ma +7

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) enables users to search for target images using both a reference image and manipulation text, offering substantial advantages over single-modality re…

cs.CV2025

UniDGF: A Unified Detection-to-Generation Framework for Hierarchical Object Visual Recognition

Xinyu Nan, Lingtao Mao, Huangyu Dai +8

Achieving visual semantic understanding requires a unified framework that simultaneously handles object detection, category prediction, and attribute recognition. However, current…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

OneSearch: A Preliminary Exploration of the Unified End-to-End Generative Framework for E-commerce Search

Ben Chen, Xian Guo, Siyuan Wang +25

Traditional e-commerce search systems employ multi-stage cascading architectures (MCA) that progressively filter items through recall, pre-ranking, and ranking stages. While effect…

cs.IR2025

COINS: SemantiC Ids Enhanced COLd Item RepresentatioN for Click-through Rate Prediction in E-commerce Search

Qihang Zhao, Zhongbo Sun, Xiaoyang Zheng +6

With the rise of modern search and recommendation platforms, insufficient collaborative information of cold-start items exacerbates the Matthew effect of existing platform items, c…

cs.CV2025

OneVision: An End-to-End Generative Framework for Multi-view E-commerce Vision Search

Zexin Zheng, Huangyu Dai, Lingtao Mao +8

Traditional vision search, similar to search and recommendation systems, follows the multi-stage cascading architecture (MCA) paradigm to balance efficiency and conversion. Specifi…

cs.IR2025

InfoGain-RAG: Boosting Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Document Information Gain-based Reranking and Filtering

Zihan Wang, Zihan Liang, Zhou Shao +7

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as a promising approach to address key limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs), such as hallucination, outdated knowledge, and…

cs.CV2025

An LLM-LVLM Driven Agent for Iterative and Fine-Grained Image Editing

Zihan Liang, Jiahao Sun, Haoran Ma

Despite the remarkable capabilities of text-to-image (T2I) generation models, real-world applications often demand fine-grained, iterative image editing that existing methods strug…

cs.SD2025

H-PRM: A Pluggable Hotword Pre-Retrieval Module for Various Speech Recognition Systems

Huangyu Dai, Lingtao Mao, Ben Chen +5

Hotword customization is crucial in ASR to enhance the accuracy of domain-specific terms. It has been primarily driven by the advancements in traditional models and Audio large lan…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

UniECS: Unified Multimodal E-Commerce Search Framework with Gated Cross-modal Fusion

Zihan Liang, Yufei Ma, ZhiPeng Qian +6

Current e-commerce multimodal retrieval systems face two key limitations: they optimize for specific tasks with fixed modality pairings, and lack comprehensive benchmarks for evalu…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

MoDULA: Mixture of Domain-Specific and Universal LoRA for Multi-Task Learning

Yufei Ma, Zihan Liang, Huangyu Dai +9

The growing demand for larger-scale models in the development of \textbf{L}arge \textbf{L}anguage \textbf{M}odels (LLMs) poses challenges for efficient training within limited comp…

cs.CL2024

Contrastive Token Learning with Similarity Decay for Repetition Suppression in Machine Translation

Huangyu Dai, Ben Chen, Kaidi Chen +3

For crosslingual conversation and trade, Neural Machine Translation (NMT) is pivotal yet faces persistent challenges with monotony and repetition in generated content. Traditional…

cs.CV2021

AssistSR: Task-oriented Video Segment Retrieval for Personal AI Assistant

Stan Weixian Lei, Difei Gao, Yuxuan Wang +4

It is still a pipe dream that personal AI assistants on the phone and AR glasses can assist our daily life in addressing our questions like ``how to adjust the date for this watch?…