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E-commerce research studies how digital marketplaces help buyers find products and sellers manage listings, pricing, advertising, and fulfillment. Common approaches include ranking and recommendation models, contextual bandits, causal and uplift modeling, inventory optimization, and multimodal language models for product understanding and shopping assistance. Systems are evaluated with offline interaction logs, online A/B tests, and interactive storefront benchmarks that test whether agents can complete shopping or business tasks. A central tension is balancing relevance and commercial outcomes with factual grounding, safety, latency, and cost; strong results on short tasks do not yet guarantee reliable long-term agent performance.

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  1. RITE: Evaluating End-to-End Resilience to Silent Tool Errors in E-Commerce Agentic Systems

    Oct 20, 2026Wenshuo Zhang, Yuquan Lin, Yushi Sun +6LLM Agent EvaluationLLM Agent Reliability

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · Tencent

  2. WenSight-Decision-1 for Direct Decisions under E-commerce Rules

    Oct 19, 2026Mingwen Liu, Jun Sun, Sichen WangLLM Decision-MakingE-Commerce

    WenSight AI Lab · TooChuang

  3. GLOBE: Evolving Structured Agentic Memory for E-commerce Product Optimization in Generative Search

    Oct 16, 2026Hyunseo Kim, Suil Choe, Sukkyoung So +1Generative Engine OptimizationMemory-Augmented Language Model Agents

    AI Lab, CTO Division, LG Electronics, South Korea

  4. Multi-Label Topic Assignment via LLM Distillation: A Comparative Analysis of Generative vs. Discriminative Student Models

    Oct 6, 2026Sourabh Kasliwal, Shubhranshu SinghMulti-Label ClassificationLanguage Model Distillation

    eBay Inc., Bellevue, WA · eBay Inc., Portland, OR

  5. From Visual Feedback to Textual Reviews: A Multi-Agent Vision-Language Framework for Image-Grounded Review Assistance

    Sep 13, 2026Utsav Kumar Nareti, Ayush Bansal, Kumari Priya +4Grounded Text GenerationVLM Reasoning

    Dept. of CSE, Indian Institute of Technology Patna, India-801106 · Dept. of CSE, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, India-453552 · NCMI, CSIRO, Australia-2601 +1

  6. Scaling E-Commerce Attribute Extraction with Parallel Decoding

    Sep 9, 2026Nikhita Vedula, Dushyanta Dhyani, Bryan Wang +1Document Information ExtractionProduct Attribute Extraction

    Amazon.com, Inc.

  7. Positional task conditioning for scalable defect detection across product families in large product catalogs

    Sep 9, 2026Soham Satyadharma, Gabriel Roccabruna, Suleiman A. KhanLanguage Model DistillationClassification

    Amazon Catalog AI

  8. Visual Search Augmented Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Attribute Value Extraction from Product Videos

    Sep 6, 2026Tong Wu, Ming Cheng, Jiazhen Hu +2Product Attribute ExtractionVLM Reasoning

    Virginia Tech · Amazon

  9. DeepAffinity: Long-Term Aspect Preference Prediction in eCommerce using Small Language Models

    Sep 2, 2026Yotam Eshel, Guy Hadad, Guy Feigenblat +3User Preference ModelingE-Commerce

    eBay Inc. · Ben-Gurion University · DREAM group

  10. Web Price Extraction: State of the Art and an Adaptive Browserless Implementation

    Sep 1, 2026Evgeniia Kositsyna, Jorge Lloret-GazoDocument Information ExtractionE-Commerce

    Department of Computer Science and Systems Engineering, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain

  11. The Differential Reasoning Router: Operationalizing Cost-Aware LLM Annotation in E-commerce

    Aug 31, 2026Cheng Lyu, Jingyue Zhang, Vinny DeGenova +2LLM-Assisted AnnotationHuman-in-the-Loop Annotation

    Wayfair

  12. How Prolific Sellers Self-Present: Dissecting the Communication Patterns of 1.6 Million Reverb Listings

    Aug 30, 2026David M. MarkowitzE-Commerce

    Department of Communication, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824

  13. Designing for the Next Click: Bandits for Real-Time Page Layout

    Aug 30, 2026Bhavtosh Rath, Harshith Narasimhamurthy, Bob Eisinger +3Contextual BanditsE-Commerce

    Target Corporation Minneapolis, MN, USA · Target Corporation Minneapolis, MN USA

  14. Timing-Aware Repurchase Prediction for Web-Scale E-Commerce: Survival Models for Multi-Surface Grocery Recommendation

    Aug 28, 2026Akshay Kekuda, Shreeranjani Srirangamsridharan, Ishan Bhatt +5Probability CalibrationSurvival Analysis

    Walmart Global Tech · Bellevue, WA, USA · Sunnyvale, CA, USA

  15. Stageboost: Recommending Signals Based on Counterfactual Estimation

    Aug 27, 2026Darpan Singhal, Matan Mandelbrod, Tal Franji +3E-Commerce

    eBay 1India · eBay 2Israel · eBay 3USA

  16. Sequential Multimodal Evidence Optimization for Product Media Ranking in E-Commerce

    Aug 16, 2026Prasenjit Dey, Frank McIntyre, Arnab SinhaLearning to RankE-Commerce

    Amazon.com Inc.

  17. Business Arena: Benchmarking LLM Agents in a Realistic Marketplace

    Aug 9, 2026Yijun Pan, Yukun Lian, Kunyu Shi +5LLM Agent EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks

    1Accio Team, Alibaba Group · 2Yale University

  18. Investigating Artificial Intelligence Digital Sovereignty in Mobile Shopping Apps: A Case Study of Nigeria

    Aug 6, 2026George Grispos, Sajda QureshiE-CommerceAI Governance

    University of Nebraska-Omaha

  19. MerchantBench: Benchmarking LLM Agents for Long-Term Coherence in E-Commerce Operations

    Jul 31, 2026Qiming Shi, Yulong Tao, Linbo Jin +10LLM Agent EvaluationLong-Horizon Agent Evaluation

    2State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University · 1Alibaba Group · School of Software and Microelectronics, Peking University +2

  20. SPARC Segmentation to Prediction via Affine Regression and Counterfactuals

    Jul 28, 2026Shivani, Subhayan RoyClass-Imbalanced LearningCounterfactual Data Augmentation

  21. CatalogAgent: A Supervisor-mediated Self-Learning System Enabling Context Engineering for GenAI Models

    Jul 15, 2026Zhu Cheng, Zhenming Wang, Yu +14Document Information ExtractionProduct Attribute Extraction

    Xuan · Amazon, Seattle, USA

  22. The Dynamic Verifiable Multi-Agent Human Agentic Loyalty Loop (DVM-HALL) Model and the Net Human-Agent Score (NHAS) in Autonomous Commerce

    Jul 15, 2026Sai Srikanth Madugula, Peplluis Esteva de la Rosa, Daya ShankarHuman-AI AgreementE-Commerce

    School of Technology, Woxsen University, Hyderabad, Telangana 502345, India · Universitat de Girona, 17004 Girona, Spain · School of Sciences, Woxsen University, Hyderabad, Telangana 502345, India

  23. Designing Agent-Ready Websites for AI Web Agents: A Framework for Machine Readability, Actionability, and Decision Reliability

    Jul 13, 2026Said Elnaffar, Farzad RashidiE-CommerceWeb Agents

    Independent Researcher London, ON, Canada · UFR Informatique Université Paris Cité F-75013 Paris, France

  24. CanniUplift: A Holistic Framework for Mitigating Seller and Incentive Cannibalization in E-commerce Uplift Modeling

    Jul 6, 2026Zuwang He, Shihao Shu, Yuli Qu +8Causal Effect EstimationUplift Modeling

    Taobao & Tmall Group of Alibaba Beijing, China · Taobao & Tmall Group of Alibaba Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

  25. Enhancement of E-commerce Sponsored Search Relevancy with LLM

    Jul 4, 2026Md Omar Faruk Rokon, Andrei Simion, Weizhi Du +3LLM Fine-TuningE-Commerce Search

    Walmart AdTech, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

  26. ShopX: A Foundation Model for Intent-to-Item Fulfillment in Agentic Shopping

    Jun 30, 2026Jiacheng Chen, Tao Zhang, Manxi Lin +26Large Language Model-Based RecommendationE-Commerce

    Alibaba Taobao & Tmall Group

  27. JD Oxygen AI Item Center (Oxygen AIIC) V1: An Industrial-Scale LLM/VLM-Centric Solution for Item Understanding, Management, and Applications

    Jun 26, 2026Oxygen AIIC, Chan Long, Chao Liu +52Product Attribute ExtractionKnowledge Representation

  28. Paying to Know: Micro-Transaction Markets for Verified Product Information in Agentic E-Commerce

    Jun 23, 2026Filippos Ventirozos, Matthew ShardlowActive Information GatheringE-Commerce

    Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester, United Kingdom

  29. Predictive Analytics in E-Commerce for CustomerBehavior Forecasting using hybrid Ret-DNN withXGBoost Model

    Jun 16, 2026Degala Pushpa Sri, Mayank Atreya, Lakshmi. H +2E-CommerceUser Preference Modeling

    Department of MBA Pace Institute of Technology and Sciences Valluru, Ongole, Andhra Pradesh, India · Chewy Inc Atlanta, USA · Department of Management Studies Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology, Nitte (Deemed to be University) Bengaluru, India +2

  30. High-Frequency Pricing at Scale for E-Commerce

    Jun 11, 2026Stefan Birr, Tobias Huelden, Mones Raslan +7E-CommerceDynamic Pricing

    Zalando SE∗ · Zalando SE · Databricks†