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About this paper

Jinhan Liu, Junjie Xu, Junjie Li, Baoli Li, Sulong Xu

JD.com researchers developed the Unified Search and Recommendation (USR) framework to enhance multi-scenario learning for e-commerce ranking. It integrates fine-grained, scenario-specific user interests and features with a global view of user actions, demonstrating significant gains in user conversion and click-through rates when deployed on the 7Fresh App.

Key insights

  • Explicitly distinguishing and modeling scenario-specific user interests and adaptively scaling scenario-agnostic features are crucial for effective joint optimization of search and recommendation systems.
  • Incorporating a 'global label space' by modeling the probability of an action given a global action offers a more holistic and powerful supervisory signal for multi-task learning across distinct scenarios.
  • Contrastive learning successfully separates and clusters representations for different scenarios, validating its utility in learning distinct features and interests for search and recommendation tasks.

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