Block-SCL: Blocking Matters for Supervised Contrastive Learning in Product Matching. (arXiv:2207.02008v1 [cs.CL])

Product matching is a fundamental step for the global understanding of
consumer behavior in e-commerce. In practice, product matching refers to the
task of deciding if two product offers from different data sources (e.g.
retailers) represent the same product. Standard pipelines use a previous stage
called blocking, where for a given product offer a set of potential matching
candidates are retrieved based on similar characteristics (e.g. same brand,
category, flavor, etc.). From these similar product candidates, those that are
not …

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