Optimizing E-commerce Search: Toward a Generalizable and Rank-Consistent Pre-Ranking Model

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05606v3
• Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 06:20:34 GMT
• Title: Optimizing E-commerce Search: Toward a Generalizable and Rank-Consistent Pre-Ranking Model
• Authors: Enqiang Xu, Yiming Qiu, Junyang Bai, Ping Zhang, Dadong Miao, Songlin Wang, Guoyu Tang, Lin Liu, Mingming Li,
• Abstract summary: In large e-commerce platforms, the pre-ranking phase is crucial for filtering out the bulk of products in advance for the downstream ranking module. We propose a novel method: a Generalizable and RAnk-ConsistEnt Pre-Ranking Model (GRACE), which achieves: 1) Ranking consistency by introducing multiple binary classification tasks that predict whether a product is within the top-k results as estimated by the ranking model, which facilitates the addition of learning objectives on common point-wise ranking models; 2) Generalizability through contrastive learning of representation for all products by pre-training on a subset of ranking product embeddings
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: In large e-commerce platforms, search systems are typically composed of a series of modules, including recall, pre-ranking, and ranking phases. The pre-ranking phase, serving as a lightweight module, is crucial for filtering out the bulk of products in advance for the downstream ranking module. Industrial efforts on optimizing the pre-ranking model have predominantly focused on enhancing ranking consistency, model structure, and generalization towards long-tail items. Beyond these optimizations, meeting the system performance requirements presents a significant challenge. Contrasting with existing industry works, we propose a novel method: a Generalizable and RAnk-ConsistEnt Pre-Ranking Model (GRACE), which achieves: 1) Ranking consistency by introducing multiple binary classification tasks that predict whether a product is within the top-k results as estimated by the ranking model, which facilitates the addition of learning objectives on common point-wise ranking models; 2) Generalizability through contrastive learning of representation for all products by pre-training on a subset of ranking product embeddings; 3) Ease of implementation in feature construction and online deployment. Our extensive experiments demonstrate significant improvements in both offline metrics and online A/B test: a 0.75% increase in AUC and a 1.28% increase in CVR.

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