{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/deep-learning-based-large-scale-visual","title":"Deep Learning based Large Scale Visual Recommendation and Search for E-Commerce","arxiv_id":"1703.02344","date":"2017-03-07","proceeding":null,"authors":["Devashish Shankar","Sujay Narumanchi","H A Ananya","Pramod Kompalli","Krishnendu Chaudhury"],"abstract":"In this paper, we present a unified end-to-end approach to build a large\nscale Visual Search and Recommendation system for e-commerce. Previous works\nhave targeted these problems in isolation. We believe a more effective and\nelegant solution could be obtained by tackling them together. We propose a\nunified Deep Convolutional Neural Network architecture, called VisNet, to learn\nembeddings to capture the notion of visual similarity, across several semantic\ngranularities. We demonstrate the superiority of our approach for the task of\nimage retrieval, by comparing against the state-of-the-art on the Exact\nStreet2Shop dataset. We then share the design decisions and trade-offs made\nwhile deploying the model to power Visual Recommendations across a catalog of\n50M products, supporting 2K queries a second at Flipkart, India's largest\ne-commerce company. The deployment of our solution has yielded a significant\nbusiness impact, as measured by the conversion-rate.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1703.02344v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.02344v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"deep-learning-based-large-scale-visual","repo_url":"https://github.com/flipkart-incubator/fk-visual-search","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":{"status":"ok","spdx":"Apache-2.0"}},{"paper_slug":"deep-learning-based-large-scale-visual","repo_url":"https://github.com/bombdiggity/paper-bag","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"tf","reach":{"status":"ok"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"2k","task_name":"2k"},{"task_slug":"image-retrieval","task_name":"Image Retrieval"},{"task_slug":"retrieval","task_name":"Retrieval"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1703.02344","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}