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Main Authors: Wang, Zhaodong, Du, Weizhi, Rokon, Md Omar Faruk, Adhikary, Pooshpendu, Xue, Yanbing, Xu, Jiaxuan, Zhou, Jianghong, Lee, Kuang-chih, Wen, Musen
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09089
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author Wang, Zhaodong
Du, Weizhi
Rokon, Md Omar Faruk
Adhikary, Pooshpendu
Xue, Yanbing
Xu, Jiaxuan
Zhou, Jianghong
Lee, Kuang-chih
Wen, Musen
author_facet Wang, Zhaodong
Du, Weizhi
Rokon, Md Omar Faruk
Adhikary, Pooshpendu
Xue, Yanbing
Xu, Jiaxuan
Zhou, Jianghong
Lee, Kuang-chih
Wen, Musen
contents Sponsored search in e-commerce poses several unique and complex challenges. These challenges stem from factors such as the asymmetric language structure between search queries and product names, the inherent ambiguity in user search intent, and the vast volume of sparse and imbalanced search corpus data. The role of the retrieval component within a sponsored search system is pivotal, serving as the initial step that directly affects the subsequent ranking and bidding systems. In this paper, we present an end-to-end solution tailored to optimize the ads retrieval system on Walmart.com. Our approach is to pretrain the BERT-like classification model with product category information, enhancing the model's understanding of Walmart product semantics. Second, we design a two-tower Siamese Network structure for embedding structures to augment training efficiency. Third, we introduce a Human-in-the-loop Progressive Fusion Training method to ensure robust model performance. Our results demonstrate the effectiveness of this pipeline. It enhances the search relevance metric by up to 16% compared to a baseline DSSM-based model. Moreover, our large-scale online A/B testing demonstrates that our approach surpasses the ad revenue of the existing production model.
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spellingShingle Semantic Ads Retrieval at Walmart eCommerce with Language Models Progressively Trained on Multiple Knowledge Domains
Wang, Zhaodong
Du, Weizhi
Rokon, Md Omar Faruk
Adhikary, Pooshpendu
Xue, Yanbing
Xu, Jiaxuan
Zhou, Jianghong
Lee, Kuang-chih
Wen, Musen
Information Retrieval
Sponsored search in e-commerce poses several unique and complex challenges. These challenges stem from factors such as the asymmetric language structure between search queries and product names, the inherent ambiguity in user search intent, and the vast volume of sparse and imbalanced search corpus data. The role of the retrieval component within a sponsored search system is pivotal, serving as the initial step that directly affects the subsequent ranking and bidding systems. In this paper, we present an end-to-end solution tailored to optimize the ads retrieval system on Walmart.com. Our approach is to pretrain the BERT-like classification model with product category information, enhancing the model's understanding of Walmart product semantics. Second, we design a two-tower Siamese Network structure for embedding structures to augment training efficiency. Third, we introduce a Human-in-the-loop Progressive Fusion Training method to ensure robust model performance. Our results demonstrate the effectiveness of this pipeline. It enhances the search relevance metric by up to 16% compared to a baseline DSSM-based model. Moreover, our large-scale online A/B testing demonstrates that our approach surpasses the ad revenue of the existing production model.
title Semantic Ads Retrieval at Walmart eCommerce with Language Models Progressively Trained on Multiple Knowledge Domains
topic Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09089