no code implementations • 29 Jul 2023 • Yibo Wang, Yanbing Xue, Bo Liu, Musen Wen, Wenting Zhao, Stephen Guo, Philip S. Yu
Position bias, the phenomenon whereby users tend to focus on higher-ranked items of the search result list regardless of the actual relevance to queries, is prevailing in many ranking systems.
no code implementations • 16 Nov 2022 • Xiaohan Li, Zheng Liu, Luyi Ma, Kaushiki Nag, Stephen Guo, Philip Yu, Kannan Achan
Considering the influence of historical purchases on users' future interests, the user and item representations can be viewed as unobserved confounders in the causal diagram.
no code implementations • 19 Oct 2022 • Shuyuan Xu, Da Xu, Evren Korpeoglu, Sushant Kumar, Stephen Guo, Kannan Achan, Yongfeng Zhang
Discovering the causal mechanism from RS feedback data is both novel and challenging, since RS itself is a source of intervention that can influence both the users' exposure and their willingness to interact.
no code implementations • 30 Nov 2021 • Shashank Kedia, Aditya Mantha, Sneha Gupta, Stephen Guo, Kannan Achan
We propose eBERT, a sequence-to-sequence approach by further pre-training the BERT embeddings on an e-commerce product description corpus, and then fine-tuning the resulting model to generate short, natural, spoken language titles from input web titles.
no code implementations • 28 Nov 2021 • Xiaohan Li, Zhiwei Liu, Stephen Guo, Zheng Liu, Hao Peng, Philip S. Yu, Kannan Achan
In this paper, we propose a novel Reinforced Attentive Multi-relational Graph Neural Network (RAM-GNN) to the pre-train user and item embeddings on the user and item graph prior to the recommendation step.
1 code implementation • 28 Feb 2021 • Yiling Jia, Huazheng Wang, Stephen Guo, Hongning Wang
Online Learning to Rank (OL2R) eliminates the need of explicit relevance annotation by directly optimizing the rankers from their interactions with users.
no code implementations • 8 Dec 2020 • Aditya Mantha, Anirudha Sundaresan, Shashank Kedia, Yokila Arora, Shubham Gupta, Gaoyang Wang, Praveenkumar Kanumala, Stephen Guo, Kannan Achan
In production, our system resulted in an improvement in item discovery, an increase in online engagement, and a significant lift on add-to-carts (ATCs) per visitor on the homepage.
no code implementations • 2 Nov 2020 • Rahul Radhakrishnan Iyer, Praveenkumar Kanumala, Stephen Guo, Kannan Achan
Searching for and making decisions about products is becoming increasingly easier in the e-commerce space, thanks to the evolution of recommender systems.
1 code implementation • 22 Oct 2020 • Zhiwei Liu, Xiaohan Li, Ziwei Fan, Stephen Guo, Kannan Achan, Philip S. Yu
The problem of basket recommendation~(BR) is to recommend a ranking list of items to the current basket.
no code implementations • 23 Jul 2020 • Mansi Ranjit Mane, Shashank Kedia, Aditya Mantha, Stephen Guo, Kannan Achan
Through recent advancements in speech technology and introduction of smart devices, such as Amazon Alexa and Google Home, increasing number of users are interacting with applications through voice.
1 code implementation • 14 Jan 2020 • Zhiwei Liu, Mengting Wan, Stephen Guo, Kannan Achan, Philip S. Yu
By defining a basket entity to represent the basket intent, we can model this problem as a basket-item link prediction task in the User-Basket-Item~(UBI) graph.
no code implementations • 24 Oct 2019 • Aditya Mantha, Yokila Arora, Shubham Gupta, Praveenkumar Kanumala, Zhiwei Liu, Stephen Guo, Kannan Achan
In this paper, we introduce a production within-basket grocery recommendation system, RTT2Vec, which generates real-time personalized product recommendations to supplement the user's current grocery basket.
1 code implementation • 26 Aug 2019 • Mansi Ranjit Mane, Stephen Guo, Kannan Achan
We propose a novel learning framework to answer questions such as "if a user is purchasing a shirt, what other items will (s)he need with the shirt?"
no code implementations • 14 Feb 2017 • Feng Mao, Edgar Blanco, Mingang Fu, Rohit Jain, Anurag Gupta, Sebastien Mancel, Rong Yuan, Stephen Guo, Sai Kumar, Yayang Tian
We introduce a deep learning approach to overcome the drawbacks by applying a large training data set, auto feature selection and fast, accurate labeling.