Faizan Ahemad

Rationale-Guided Distillation for E-Commerce Relevance Classification: Bridging Large Language Models and Lightweight Cross-Encoders

Accurately classifying the relevance of Query-Product pairs is critical in online retail stores such as Amazon, as displaying irrelevant products can harm user experience and reduce engagement. While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at this task due to their broad knowledge and strong reasoning ab…