Google's RPTune Boosts In-Context Catalog Search Accuracy by Up to 31.4 Points

google · hf · 2026-10-02

Google proposes RPTune, an end-to-end framework for in-context catalog search: for SMBs whose catalogs fit a long-context LLM, it couples learned catalog curation—an encoder-reorganizer that orders and prunes products guided by downstream LLM feedback—with LLM post-training using catalog-grounded, context-relative rewards. Across 7 real merchants and 100 complex conversational queries each, curation yields gains up to 31.4 percentage points and post-training adds 10.3 on average, consistently improving both proprietary and open-weight LLMs.

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