Information Retrieval
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LLM-Supervised Multi-Task Ranking Balances Semantic Relevance and Engagement in E-Commerce Search
Optimizing e-commerce search ranking purely on engagement signals (clicks, purchases) introduces systematic biases toward popular or price-anchored items that fail to satisfy user semantic intent. This paper presents a production-scale multi-task ranking system that adds semantic relevance as an exp…
Google's Sparse and Inconsistent Use of Search Warning Banners Reveals Limited Data Void Moderation
Google deploys warning banners for low-quality, low-relevance, or rapidly-changing search results, detected in ~1% of 1.4M social media queries across three waves from Oct 2023 to Sept 2024. Low-quality banners, linked to poor domains and conspiracy keywords, showed high churn and short-term inconsi…