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Martin Wang
dblp:430/9020
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0005-1903-0167ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Databases, data mining, and information retrieval
1 paper |
Information retrieval · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Information retrieval
e-commerce search |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Joint Optimization of Relevance and Engagement in Multi-Task Ranking for E-Commerce with Efficient LLM Supervision · SIGIR 2026 |
Information retrieval › ranking
learning to rank |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Joint Optimization of Relevance and Engagement in Multi-Task Ranking for E-Commerce with Efficient LLM Supervision · SIGIR 2026 |
Information retrieval › ranking › learning to rank
multi-task learning for ranking |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | Joint Optimization of Relevance and Engagement in Multi-Task Ranking for E-Commerce with Efficient LLM Supervision · SIGIR 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
multi-task learning · 1.0large language model · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Joint Optimization of Relevance and Engagement in Multi-Task Ranking for E-Commerce with Efficient LLM SupervisionabstractOptimizing industrial search ranking models solely for user engagement signals often introduces systematic biases, prioritizing popular or price-anchored items that may not satisfy semantic intent. We present a production-scale multi-task ranking system that integrates semantic relevance as a primary optimization objective, enabling explicit and controllable relevance--engagement trade-offs. Our architecture employs an ordinal relevance head that predicts cumulative probabilities over relevance thresholds, preserving the inherent ordering of labels. These outputs are integrated with engagement heads through a unified value model scoring function, enabling systematic balancing of semantic quality and short-term behavioral signals. To provide high-quality supervision for this multi-task framework, we utilize fine-tuned lightweight Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate three-level ordinal relevance labels: irrelevant, moderately relevant, and highly relevant. We address challenges regarding label distribution sensitivity and ensure high alignment with human annotations to enable efficient labeling for over 100 million query--item pairs. Evaluation across offline metrics, including NDCG@10, and online A/B experiments demonstrates that our approach significantly improves semantic alignment while preserving core engagement objectives. Jiaqi Xi, Raghav Saboo, Martin Wang, Sudeep Das |
SIGIR | 4 |