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Alibaba International Intelligent Technology

Jul 3, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

How Generative Pretraining Overcomes Discriminative Model Bottlenecks in Ad Ranking

The article presents UserLLM, a three‑stage framework—generative pre‑training, discriminative SFT, and CTR fusion—that leverages ultra‑long user behavior sequences to address the compression and scaling limits of traditional discriminative ranking models, demonstrating significant offline gains and validated scaling‑law behavior across token, layer, and width dimensions.

UserLLMad rankinggenerative pretraining

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How Generative Pretraining Overcomes Discriminative Model Bottlenecks in Ad Ranking

Alibaba International Intelligent Technology

Jun 26, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

How CCVTON Achieves SOTA Virtual Try-On Without Large-Scale Paired Data

CCVTON introduces a cycle‑consistent diffusion framework that trains on massive unpaired single‑model images, uses a two‑stage garment‑aware mask generation and multi‑criterion filtering to overcome paired‑data scarcity, and reaches state‑of‑the‑art results on VITON‑HD and DressCode.

CCVTONComputer VisionCycle-Consistency

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How CCVTON Achieves SOTA Virtual Try-On Without Large-Scale Paired Data

Alibaba International Intelligent Technology

Jun 18, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

GeoReward: Enabling Vision‑Language Models to Sense Market Context for Country‑Specific Ad Creative

The paper identifies Contextual Variable Overestimation in vision‑language models, introduces the MACP multi‑country ad preference dataset, proposes the three‑gate GeoReward framework to restore sensitivity to sparse country cues, and demonstrates superior accuracy, sensitivity, and controllable ad generation across ten markets.

Cross-Market PreferenceDataset MACPGeoReward

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GeoReward: Enabling Vision‑Language Models to Sense Market Context for Country‑Specific Ad Creative

Alibaba International Intelligent Technology

Jun 12, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Personalized World Knowledge Lets Large Models Truly Understand Users in Generative Recommendation

This article introduces LWGR, a framework that uses personalized soft prompts generated by parallel codebooks and Lagrangian‑constrained knowledge fusion to integrate large language model world knowledge into generative recommendation, overcoming fixed‑prompt limitations and knowledge‑behavior conflicts, and demonstrates superior performance on public and industrial datasets with notable revenue gains in online A/B tests.

Lagrangian constraintLarge Language Modelgenerative recommendation

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Personalized World Knowledge Lets Large Models Truly Understand Users in Generative Recommendation

Alibaba International Intelligent Technology

Jun 5, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

From Alchemist to Decision‑Maker: How Agents Redefine Algorithm Engineers’ Role

The article details a multi‑layer Research Agent system that automates the repetitive execution steps of recommendation model development, demonstrates a 17.5% HitRate@100 lift on Lazada’s generative recall pipeline, and argues that while agents excel at efficient trial‑and‑error, true creative breakthroughs still require human insight.

AI agentsLazadaMemory Management

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From Alchemist to Decision‑Maker: How Agents Redefine Algorithm Engineers’ Role

Alibaba International Intelligent Technology

May 29, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Turning Cutting-Edge AI into a Cocktail at Zhejiang University’s Academic Bar

Alibaba International hosted an Academic Bar at Zhejiang University where experts presented multilingual e‑LLM models, next‑generation recommendation systems, AI‑driven optical design, safety frameworks for agents, a benchmark for e‑commerce chatbots, virtual user research, an Agent Harness architecture, and edge‑side large‑model techniques, illustrating the practical convergence of cutting‑edge AI research and industry.

AI agentsAI safetyedge AI

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Turning Cutting-Edge AI into a Cocktail at Zhejiang University’s Academic Bar

Alibaba International Intelligent Technology

May 22, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

How SORT Transforms Precision Ranking with a Transformer‑Based Architecture

SORT re‑architects industrial‑scale ranking by shifting to a request‑centric data paradigm, integrating sparse and MoE optimizations into a Transformer backbone, and delivering significant CTR‑AUC, FLOPs, and online metric improvements while maintaining high training and inference efficiency.

Large Model ScalingRankingSparse Attention

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How SORT Transforms Precision Ranking with a Transformer‑Based Architecture

Alibaba International Intelligent Technology

May 15, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

LiRA: A Linguistic Robust Anchoring Framework for Low-Resource Cross-Lingual LLM Retrieval

LiRA introduces a dual‑module framework—Arca for anchored representation composition and LaSR for language‑coupled semantic reasoning—backed by theoretical guarantees and extensive experiments that markedly improve multilingual retrieval, similarity, and reasoning performance on low‑resource languages, including a new LazRetrieval benchmark.

cross-lingual retrievaldeep learninginformation retrieval

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LiRA: A Linguistic Robust Anchoring Framework for Low-Resource Cross-Lingual LLM Retrieval

Alibaba International Intelligent Technology

Apr 24, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Alibaba International AI Team Lands Multiple Papers at SIGIR, WWW, and WSDM 2026

Alibaba International Intelligent Technology showcases nine industrial‑grade recommendation and search papers accepted at SIGIR, WWW, and WSDM 2026, detailing sparse scaling, counterfactual multi‑task learning, generative recommendation, MoE routing, and multimodal semantic ID breakthroughs with extensive offline and online results.

counterfactual learninge‑commerce AIgenerative recommendation

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Alibaba International AI Team Lands Multiple Papers at SIGIR, WWW, and WSDM 2026

Alibaba International Intelligent Technology

Apr 17, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Explicit Semantic Generative Retrieval: A New Paradigm for E‑Commerce Search

The article presents a generative retrieval framework that anchors on a product‑side explicit semantic space, uses single‑sided query alignment, multi‑stage LLM‑driven attribute extraction, schema standardization, and 14B model SFT + DPO training to achieve interpretable, controllable, and high‑performance e‑commerce search.

DPOLLMSFT

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