Hugging Face Daily PapersChuxuan Hu, Hejie Cui, Norman Huang1 min readpaperadvanced
RPTune: Learned Context Curation for LLM Catalog Search
Summary
RPTune is an end‑to‑end system that learns to curate product catalogs for in‑context LLM search and fine‑tunes the LLM with a context‑relative reward. On seven real merchants it boosts search accuracy by up to 31 pp from curation and an additional ~10 pp from post‑training.
- Encoder‑reorganizer curator orders and prunes catalog items using downstream LLM feedback.
- Context‑relative reward fine‑tunes the LLM on curated catalogs, improving product selection.
- Across 7 merchants and 100 complex queries each, curation adds up to 31.4 pp accuracy, post‑training adds ~10 pp on average.
- Works with both proprietary and open‑weight LLMs, demonstrating model‑agnostic applicability.
Product engineers and IR researchers building LLM‑driven search for small‑to‑medium catalogs should care because the approach yields large accuracy gains without needing massive retrieval infrastructure.
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