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MERIT framework tackles exposure bias in e-commerce AI models

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Researchers have developed MERIT, a new framework designed to improve user-interest propensity modeling in large e-commerce settings. MERIT addresses the issue of "exposure bias" in autoregressive language models, where early prediction errors can lead to inaccurate subsequent outputs. By employing a self-correction objective with a permutation-invariant multi-target loss, MERIT trains the model to handle erroneous prefixes more effectively. This approach has demonstrated significant improvements, including an 11.9% increase in global recall and a 6.1% gain in average Hit@k on a dataset with over 250,000 interest categories, and a 0.26% uplift in user conversion in production A/B tests. AI

IMPACT This framework could enhance personalization and conversion rates in e-commerce by improving how AI models understand user interests.

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Abhinav Mahajan, Arindam Sarkar, Prakash Mandayam Comar ·

    MERIT: Mitigating Exposure Bias in Generative XMC for User-Interest Propensity Modeling

    arXiv:2608.28931v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Matching users to interest categories at scale is central to personalized shopping, but the task is challenging in large e-commerce platforms, where label spaces continually evolve and user-interest signals are sparse and long-tai…

  2. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Prakash Mandayam Comar ·

    MERIT: Mitigating Exposure Bias in Generative XMC for User-Interest Propensity Modeling

    Matching users to interest categories at scale is central to personalized shopping, but the task is challenging in large e-commerce platforms, where label spaces continually evolve and user-interest signals are sparse and long-tailed. Autoregressive language models are appealing …

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