TRACE: Term-level Reasoning And Chain-of-thought Enhanced distillation for E-commerce Multi-modal Relevance Learning.

@inproceedings{wang-2026-trace, author = {Chenxu Wang and Chi Zhang and Fangyi Liang and Jianzhi Shao and Manyi Wang and Tao Zhang}, editor = {Hannah Bast and Alistair Moffat and Falk Scholer and Marc Najork and Min Zhang and Hannah Bast and Marc Najork and Min Zhang}, title = {{TRACE: Term-level Reasoning And Chain-of-thought Enhanced distillation for E-commerce Multi-modal Relevance Learning}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 49th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2026, MelbourneVICAustralia, July 20-24, 2026}}, pages = {4993--4998}, publisher = {ACM}, year = {2026}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3808468}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3805712.3808468} }