Scaling E-Commerce Attribute Extraction with Parallel Decoding

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.09716v2
• Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 22:07:18 GMT
• Title: Scaling E-Commerce Attribute Extraction with Parallel Decoding
• Abstract summary: e-commerce catalogs are messy and unstructured, making it difficult to identify which attributes matter most.<n>We introduce a two-stage LLM pipeline that first discovers a compact, ranked schema of purchase-discriminative attributes for each product category.<n>This pipeline achieves 85% extraction accuracy, on par with the foundational LLM it was distilled from, while reducing inference costs by 92%.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Customers rely on specific product attributes to compare products and make purchasing decisions, but e-commerce catalogs are messy and unstructured, making it difficult to identify which attributes matter most and extract them at scale. Standard Attribute Value Extraction (AVE) systems treat all attributes equally, producing large, inconsistent attribute sets that do not reflect the factors consumers use to differentiate products. We introduce a two-stage LLM pipeline that first discovers a compact, ranked schema of purchase-discriminative attributes for each product category, then extracts their values from catalog text using a fine-tuned compact LLM (Qwen3-4B) with Hyper-Parallel Decoding (HPD). This pipeline achieves 85% extraction accuracy, on par with the foundational LLM it was distilled from, while reducing inference costs by 92% over foundational LLMs, enabling production-scale use for product discovery and catalog enrichment. The resulting category-level structured representations effectively constitute automatically constructed product knowledge bases, providing consistent, comparable attributes across varied product categories that can ground downstream knowledge-intensive applications.

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