Arkin Dharawat

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2ranked-venue papers
1as first author
2since 2021 · last 2025
0009-0004-0116-8697ORCID · reported

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Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 2 · 1 first-author · 2 since 2021Human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021

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Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper
Information retrieval · 100%

Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it

TopicWeightPapersLastEvidence papers
Information retrieval
e-commerce search
0.912025
Optimize Visual Shopping Journey with Embedding-based Retrieval in Pinterest Closeup · SIGIR 2025
Information retrieval › retrieval models › neural retrieval
embedding-based retrieval
0.912025
Optimize Visual Shopping Journey with Embedding-based Retrieval in Pinterest Closeup · SIGIR 2025
Information retrieval
image retrieval
0.912025
Optimize Visual Shopping Journey with Embedding-based Retrieval in Pinterest Closeup · SIGIR 2025
Information retrieval
multimodal retrieval
0.912025
Optimize Visual Shopping Journey with Embedding-based Retrieval in Pinterest Closeup · SIGIR 2025

Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics

probability model · 0.9multi-task learning · 0.9contrastive learning · 0.9
YearPublicationVenuePosition
2025 Optimize Visual Shopping Journey with Embedding-based Retrieval in Pinterest Closeup
abstract
Pinterest is the visual discovery platform where people find inspiration, curate ideas, and shop products for all life's moments. An intentful journey can start when Pinners (users) click on Pins and arrive at the Closeup surface, where they can continue to explore or refine their intent by browsing related content powered by our visual search and related recommendation engines. Product Pins, or contents that are linked to merchants and are buyable in general, are critical to realizable fulfillment in Pinners' exploratory journey. This paper focuses on optimizing embedding-based retrieval (EBR) to retrieve relevant and personalized product Pins to drive actionable engagement. In contrast to conventional EBR systems, we introduce complementary Shopping Priority Corpora that are prepared by probability models from a dynamic inventory with billions of candidates and highly skewed distributions. This novel design enabled us to significantly improve the retrieval efficiency, scale up the systems, and meet different business requirements. On top of that, we build retrieval models that infuse multimodal information with multi-task contrastive learning to balance relevance and engagement. We evaluate the EBR system on random off-policy traffic with thorough baseline comparisons and rigorous online A/B experiments. This work leads to significant metric gains in our production systems and provides practical lessons on improving early retrieval for multiple business objectives at large scales.
Junpeng Hou, Arkin Dharawat, Jiaxing Qu, Qi Wang 0181, Sai Xiao, Xianxing Zhang, Weiran Li 0001
SIGIR3
2022 Drink Bleach or Do What Now? COVID-HeRA: A Study of Risk-Informed Health Decision Making in the Presence of COVID-19 Misinformation
Arkin Dharawat, Ismini Lourentzou, Alex Morales, ChengXiang Zhai
ICWSM1