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most citedDeep Bag-of-Words Model: An Efficient and Interpretable Relevance Architecture for Chinese E-Commerce

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cs.IR2026

Progressive Learning from Content to Relevance to Personalization for CTR Prediction

Zhiguang Yang, Yulin Yang, Fuyu Lv +1

Multimodal click-through rate (CTR) prediction is central to search systems, where ranking depends on item content, query relevance, and user preference. Existing approaches incorp…

cs.IR2026

Beyond Semantic IDs: Encoding Business-Value Ranking into Document Identifiers for Generative Retrieval

Gui Ling, Zhihong Chen, Yu Li +7

Generative Retrieval (GR) formulates retrieval as a sequence-to-sequence generation task, assigning each document a document identifier (DocID) and retrieving it through autoregres…

cs.IR2026

TSGR: Taobao Search Generative Retrieval

Tianyu Zhan, Gui Ling, Tong Xiong +9

Generative retrieval (GR) has demonstrated strong promise for industrial e-commerce search by training a single autoregressive model to directly generate the Semantic IDs (SIDs) of…

cs.IR2026

Prompt Generation Technical Report

Dan Ou, Gui Ling, Hao Wan +25

Generative retrieval has become an increasingly adopted paradigm for industrial search, recommendation, and advertising systems, delivering significant online gains. Most existing…

cs.IR2026

KARMA: Knowledge-Action Regularized Multimodal Alignment for Personalized Search at Taobao

Zhi Sun, Wenming Zhang, Yi Wei +4

Large Language Models (LLMs) are equipped with profound semantic knowledge, making them a natural choice for injecting semantic generalization into personalized search systems. How…

cs.IR2026

UniScale: Synergistic Entire Space Data and Model Scaling for Search Ranking

Liren Yu, Caiyuan Li, Feiyi Dong +5

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have inspired a surge of scaling research in industrial search, advertising, and recommendation systems. However, existing approache…

cs.IR2025

HHFT: Hierarchical Heterogeneous Feature Transformer for Recommendation Systems

Liren Yu, Wenming Zhang, Silu Zhou +3

We propose HHFT (Hierarchical Heterogeneous Feature Transformer), a Transformer-based architecture tailored for industrial CTR prediction. HHFT addresses the limitations of DNN thr…

cs.IR2025

Retrieval-GRPO: A Multi-Objective Reinforcement Learning Framework for Dense Retrieval in Taobao Search

Xingxian Liu, Dongshuai Li, Jiahui Wan +7

Dense retrieval, as the core component of e-commerce search engines, maps user queries and items into a unified semantic space through pre-trained embedding models to enable large-…

cs.IR2025

Learning to Trust: Dynamic Utilization of Retrieval-Augmented Generation for E-commerce Search Relevance

Tingqiao Xu, Shaowei Yao, Chenhe Dong +5

Accurately estimating query-item relevance is vital for e-commerce ranking and conversion. While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at reasoning, they often lack specialized knowle…

cs.IR2025

TaoSR-AGRL: Adaptive Guided Reinforcement Learning Framework for E-commerce Search Relevance

Jianhui Yang, Yiming Jin, Pengkun Jiao +6

Query-product relevance prediction is fundamental to e-commerce search and has become even more critical in the era of AI-powered shopping, where semantic understanding and complex…

cs.IR2025

RecIS: Sparse to Dense, A Unified Training Framework for Recommendation Models

Hua Zong, Qingtao Zeng, Zhengxiong Zhou +31

In this paper, we propose RecIS, a unified Sparse-Dense training framework designed to achieve two primary goals: 1. Unified Framework To create a Unified sparse-dense training fra…

cs.IR2025★ 1 cited

TaoSR1: The Thinking Model for E-commerce Relevance Search

Chenhe Dong, Shaowei Yao, Pengkun Jiao +7

Query-product relevance prediction is a core task in e-commerce search. BERT-based models excel at semantic matching but lack complex reasoning capabilities. While Large Language M…

cs.IR2024★ 6 cited

Deep Bag-of-Words Model: An Efficient and Interpretable Relevance Architecture for Chinese E-Commerce

Zhe Lin, Jiwei Tan, Dan Ou +3

Text relevance or text matching of query and product is an essential technique for the e-commerce search system to ensure that the displayed products can match the intent of the qu…

cs.IR2023★ 4 cited

Large Language Model based Long-tail Query Rewriting in Taobao Search

Wenjun Peng, Guiyang Li, Yue Jiang +6

In the realm of e-commerce search, the significance of semantic matching cannot be overstated, as it directly impacts both user experience and company revenue. Along this line, que…

cs.IR2023★ 3 cited

Rethinking the Role of Pre-ranking in Large-scale E-Commerce Searching System

Zhixuan Zhang, Yuheng Huang, Dan Ou +4

E-commerce search systems such as Taobao Search, the largest e-commerce searching system in China, aim at providing users with the most preferred items (e.g., products). Due to the…