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Leveraging Transformers to Improve Product Retrieval Results

 Originally published in Amazon Science, Aug 3, 2023. Assessing the absolute utility of query results, rather than just their relative utility, improves learning-to-rank models. When a customer clicks on an item in a list of product-search results, it implies that that item is better than those not clicked. “Learning to rank” models leverage such implicit