2 papers
cs.AI2026
Retrieve, Match, Escalate: Accurate and Scalable Product Linking with VLM-Distilled Cross-Encoders and Agentic VLMs
Jian Wang, Steven Xu, Sanjyot Thete +5
Product linking, the entity-resolution task of mapping merchant product records to canonical catalog products, consolidates fragmented listings so downstream search, recommendation…
cs.IR2026
One Hierarchy, Two Systems: Semantic Product IDs for Discovery-Surface Ranking and Search-Page Query Reformulation
Steven Xu, Sanjyot Thete, Saathvik Dirisala +7
Multi-merchant e-commerce catalogs contain equivalent and related products under different merchant-scoped identifiers, fragmenting behavioral evidence across merchants. Expert-def…