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Beyond Relevance: Structured Semantic Supervision for Product Search with LLM-Augmented Annotations

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 20, 2026 · UTC

E-commerce search requires distinguishing products that are merely related to a query from those that directly satisfy the user's shopping intent. We augment query-product pairs with structured LLM-generated query and product attributes and human-validated relevance, explanations, and centrality judgments, and evaluate these signals using a simple dual-encoder retriever and MLP re-ranker. On an augmented subset of ESCI, a human-feature oracle reaches $0.9382$ nDCG@10, while a human-free trained $Q+P$ configuration reaches $0.9258$. Synthetic approximations of the human signals reach $0.9150$ o

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