Fine-grained auxiliary learning for real-world product recommendation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04551v1
• Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2025 07:34:06 GMT
• Title: Fine-grained auxiliary learning for real-world product recommendation
• Authors: Mario Almagro, Diego Ortego, David Jimenez,
• Abstract summary: Auxiliary Learning is a strategy that boosts coverage through learning fine-grained embeddings.<n>This paper introduces two training objectives that leverage the hardest negatives in the batch to build discrimi training signals between positives and negatives.<n>We validate ALC using three extreme multi-label classification approaches in two product recommendation datasets.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: Product recommendation is the task of recovering the closest items to a given query within a large product corpora. Generally, one can determine if top-ranked products are related to the query by applying a similarity threshold; exceeding it deems the product relevant, otherwise manual revision is required. Despite being a well-known problem, the integration of these models in real-world systems is often overlooked. In particular, production systems have strong coverage requirements, i.e., a high proportion of recommendations must be automated. In this paper we propose ALC , an Auxiliary Learning strategy that boosts Coverage through learning fine-grained embeddings. Concretely, we introduce two training objectives that leverage the hardest negatives in the batch to build discriminative training signals between positives and negatives. We validate ALC using three extreme multi-label classification approaches in two product recommendation datasets; LF-AmazonTitles-131K and Tech and Durables (proprietary), demonstrating state-of-the-art coverage rates when combined with a recent threshold-consistent margin loss.

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