arxivcs.AI2026-07-20
Pailitao-MMSearch: Building Native E-Commerce Multimodal Search Foundation
Xiaohan Ye, Xu Chen, Zihan Gong, Jian Ding, Lianyu Du, Baicheng Chen, et al.
The evolution of e-commerce has fundamentally transformed how users search for products, shifting from simple text-based keyword queries to complex multimodal interactions that seamlessly combine product images, natural language descriptions, and mixed-intent instructions. Howeve…