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Pretrained Embeddings for E-commerce Machine Learning: When it Fails and Why?

Year: 2023
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The use of pretrained embeddings has become widespread in modern e-commerce machine learning (ML) systems. In practice, however, we have encountered several key issues when using pretrained embedding in a real-world production system, many of which cannot be fully explained by current knowledge. Unfortunately, we find that there is a lack of a thorough understanding of how pre-trained embeddings work, especially their intrinsic properties and interactions with downstream tasks. Consequently, it becomes challenging to make interactive and scalable decisions regarding the use of pre-trained embeddings in practice.
Language: English
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4364383768
FWCI: 0.359
Cites: 66
Cited by: 2
Related to: 10