Unified Learning-to-rank For Multi-channel Retrieval In Large-scale E-commerce Search

Abstract

Large-scale e-commerce search must surface a broad set of items from a vast catalog, ranging from bestselling products to new, trending, or seasonal items. Modern systems therefore rely on multiple specialized retrieval channels to surface products, each designed to satisfy a specific objective. A key challenge is how to effectively merge documents from these heterogeneous channels into a single ranked list under strict latency constraints while optimizing for business KPIs such as user conversion. Rank-based fusion methods such as Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF) and Weighted Interleaving rely on fixed global channel weights and treat channels independently, failing to account for query-specific channel utility and cross-channel interactions. We observe that multi-channel fusion can be reformulated as a query-dependent learning-to-rank problem over heterogeneous candidate sources. In this paper, we propose a unified ranking model that learns to merge and rank documents from multiple retri

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