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most citedOmniSearchSage: Multi-Task Multi-Entity Embeddings for Pinterest Search

7 citations · 11 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cs.IR2026

UniPinRec: Unifying Generative Retrieval and Ranking at Pinterest Scale

Hanyu Li, Yi-Ping Hsu, Aditya Mantha +17

Modern recommendation systems predominantly train retrieval and ranking as separate models despite both increasingly relying on large transformers encoding the same user behavior d…

cs.IR2026

A Production-Ready RL Framework for Personalized Utility Tuning with Pareto Sweeping in Pinterest Recommender Systems

Yichu Zhou, Mehdi Ben Ayed, Lin Yang +9

Large-scale recommenders encode multi-objective trade-offs by combining multiple predicted outcomes into a single utility score. Although this utility layer can be updated independ…

cs.CV2026

PinCLIP: Large-scale Foundational Multimodal Representation at Pinterest

Josh Beal, Eric Kim, Jinfeng Rao +3

While multi-modal Visual Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated significant success across various domains, the integration of VLMs into recommendation and retrieval systems rema…

cs.LG2025

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Ranking Utility Tuning in the Ad Recommender System at Pinterest

Xiao Yang, Mehdi Ben Ayed, Longyu Zhao +8

The ranking utility function in an ad recommender system, which linearly combines predictions of various business goals, plays a central role in balancing values across the platfor…

cs.LG2025

PinFM: Foundation Model for User Activity Sequences at a Billion-scale Visual Discovery Platform

Xiangyi Chen, Kousik Rajesh, Matthew Lawhon +9

User activity sequences have emerged as one of the most important signals in recommender systems. We present a foundational model, PinFM, for understanding user activity sequences…

cs.IR2025★ 4 cited

OmniSage: Large Scale, Multi-Entity Heterogeneous Graph Representation Learning

Anirudhan Badrinath, Alex Yang, Kousik Rajesh +5

Representation learning, a task of learning latent vectors to represent entities, is a key task in improving search and recommender systems in web applications. Various representat…

cs.IR2025

PinRec: Unified Generative Retrieval for Pinterest Recommender Systems

Edoardo Botta, Jaewon Yang, Yi-Ping Hsu +6

Generative retrieval methods employ sequential modeling techniques, like transformers, to generate candidate items for recommender systems. These methods have demonstrated promisin…

cs.IR2024★ 7 cited

OmniSearchSage: Multi-Task Multi-Entity Embeddings for Pinterest Search

Prabhat Agarwal, Minhazul Islam Sk, Nikil Pancha +3

In this paper, we present OmniSearchSage, a versatile and scalable system for understanding search queries, pins, and products for Pinterest search. We jointly learn a unified quer…