Overview

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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69 papers4 papers in the last four weeks, down 43% on the four weeks before. 0.0% of all new papers.

  1. Click-to-Ask: An AI Live Streaming Assistant with Offline Copywriting and Online Interactive QA

    Mar 19, 2026Ruizhi Yu, Keyang Zhong, Peng Liu +5E-CommerceConversational Agents

  2. Understanding Strategic Platform Entry and Seller Exploration: A Stackelberg Model

    Mar 15, 2026Garrett Seo, Xintong Wang, David C. ParkesE-CommerceStackelberg Games

  3. Multi-Object Advertisement Creative Generation

    Mar 14, 2026Jialu Gao, Mithun Das Gupta, Qun Li +4Image GenerationE-Commerce

  4. User Review Writing via Interview with Dialogue Systems

    Mar 7, 2026Yoshiki Tanaka, Michimasa InabaText GenerationE-Commerce

  5. Reviewing the Reviewer: Graph-Enhanced LLMs for E-commerce Appeal Adjudication

    Feb 27, 2026Yuchen Du, Ashley Li, Zixi HuangLLM Decision-MakingLLM Reasoning with Graphs

  6. Causal inference and model explainability analysis of a real world sales dataset

    Dec 14, 2025Pranav Gupta, Nithin SurendranCausal Effect EstimationInterpretable ML

  7. From Leakage to Fidelity: Reliable Benchmarking for Temporal Cascade Prediction

    Oct 29, 2025Jie Peng, Rui Wang, Qiang Wang +4Forecasting BenchmarksTemporal Data Leakage

  8. LLP: LLM-Based Product Pricing in E-commerce

    Oct 10, 2025Hairu Wang, Sheng You, Qiheng Zhang +5E-CommerceLLM Post-Training

  9. Query Brand Entity Linking in E-Commerce Search

    Feb 3, 2025Dong Liu, Sreyashi NagE-Commerce SearchInformation Retrieval