Lorenzo Cravero
Zero-shot product retrieval with contrastive learning.
Rel. Giuseppe Rizzo, Lorenzo Bongiovanni. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Computer Engineering, 2023
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Abstract
While developing a platform that compares product prices and characteristics across various Italian e-commerce websites, the need to retrieve similar products across the different and ever changing websites arose. In this thesis, we approach the challenge by setting up a task of retrieval of similar products given a starting product, where each product is defined solely by its textual attributes. Particular focus is put on the zero-shot scenario, where the model performance is evaluated on both products and websites that have not been seen during training. Our goal is to produce a model that can generalize well and be easily implemented in the real-world use case.
This thesis leverages two language models that were pre-trained on extensive general corpora (BERT and MPNet), and demonstrates the benefits of applying a supervised contrastive learning objective during the fine-tuning stage for the purpose of retrieving new and unseen products in a zero-shot fashion
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