How JD’s PODM‑MI Model Boosted E‑commerce Search Diversity and Sales
JD’s algorithm engineer describes how a three‑layer PODM‑MI re‑ranking framework, combining Gaussian preference modeling, mutual‑information optimization, and utility‑matrix fusion, overcame the hourglass bottleneck in generative retrieval, dramatically improving search diversity, user experience, and generating over ten million additional orders.
