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WeChat E-commerce Search boosted by new generative retrieval system

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Researchers have developed WeGR, a unified generative retrieval framework designed to enhance industrial search systems, particularly within WeChat. The system addresses challenges in existing methods by incorporating collaborative signals and mitigating reward sparsity through novel components like the Collaborative and Collapse-free Tokenizer (CoCo-VAE) and Dynamic Horizon Policy Optimization (DHPO). An online A/B test in WeChat E-commerce Search showed significant improvements in orders, click-through rate, and conversion rate, alongside reductions in CPU and GPU usage. AI

IMPACT Enhances industrial search efficiency and user experience, potentially setting new benchmarks for e-commerce platforms.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a research paper detailing a new system (WeGR) and its application in an industrial search system (WeChat E-commerce Search), including experimental results.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Jiajun Han, Guoxin Ma, Felix, Liangsheng Xu, Ruiqi Yu, Yingdi Guo, Zongbing Wang, Xinhua Ye, Chenyan Hua, Xin Xie, Pengcheng Yang, Haijun Wu ·

    WeGR: Unified Generative Retrieval for Industrial Search Systems in WeChat

    arXiv:2610.16979v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative retrieval (GR) offers a promising paradigm for industrial search by unifying candidate generation within an autoregressive framework. However, its effectiveness is limited by two key challenges. First, existing Semantic…

  2. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Haijun Wu ·

    WeGR: Unified Generative Retrieval for Industrial Search Systems in WeChat

    Generative retrieval (GR) offers a promising paradigm for industrial search by unifying candidate generation within an autoregressive framework. However, its effectiveness is limited by two key challenges. First, existing Semantic ID (SID) tokenizers struggle to incorporate colla…

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