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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2023
Ebay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Yuyan Wang, San Jose, CA (US);
Yan Liang, San Jose, CA (US);
Aritra Mandal, San Jose, CA (US);
Daniel Tunkelang, San Jose, CA (US);
eBay Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Similarity sensitive diversity is utilized to measure variation in a distribution of item listings along one or more categories. A cosine similarity between category vectors of each category pair in a set of categories is determined and utilized to generate a pairwise similarity matrix. The pairwise similarity matrix may be pruned to remove category pairs below a threshold. Utilizing the pairwise similarity matrix, similarity sensitive diversity between one or more items of a plurality of items may be determined. In various aspects, the similarity sensitive diversity may be utilized to: generate a list of relevant items in an appropriate distribution, suggest refinements of a search query; generate navigation modules; categorize or recategorize the plurality of items; or generate autosuggestions.