Search is at the heart of modern e-commerce. Traditional models optimize over a few hand-constructed features based on the item’s text. Now, there is a multimodal learning to rank model that combines these traditional features with visual semantic features transferred from a deep convolutional neural net work.
The Activity Feed (AF) is our taking on the ubiquitous “web feed” - a continuous stream of aggregated content, personalized for each user. These streams have become the defacto means of serving advertisements in the context of social media.