System for Bidding on Multi-Modal Sub-Spaces for E-Commerce Searches

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by a computing device to cause the computing device to:

• represent, in an embedding space affiliated with at least one electronic commerce website:
• (i) one or more images related to one or more bids and (ii) one or more items of text related to the one or more bids, said one or more images and said one or more items of text both coming from one or more bidding entities;
• map a query to the embedding space based on a comparison of one or more features of the query to (i) the one or more images and (ii) the one or more items of text;
• select at least one of the one or more bidding entities based on said mapping;
• and
• output, to at least one user in response to the query, search results associated with the at least one selected bidding entity.

A system comprising:

• a memory;
• and
• at least one processor operably coupled to the memory and configured for:
• representing, in an embedding space affiliated with at least one electronic commerce website:
• (i) one or more images related to one or more bids and (ii) one or more items of text related to the one or more bids, said one or more images and said one or more items of text both coming from one or more bidding entities;
• mapping a query to the embedding space based on a comparison of one or more features of the query to (i) the one or more images and (ii) the one or more items of text;
• selecting at least one of the one or more bidding entities based on said mapping;
• and
• outputting, to at least one user in response to the query, search results associated with the at least one selected bidding entity.

A computer-implemented method, the method comprising steps of:

• generating an embedding space associated with at least one electronic commerce website, wherein the embedding space comprises multiple sub-spaces associated with multiple types of commercial offerings of the at least one electronic commerce website;
• displaying the multiple sub-spaces via a user interface;
• processing one or more bids, submitted by one or more bidding entities, for coupling one or more offerings to one or more of the multiple sub-spaces, wherein said processing comprises processing one or more interactions between the one or more bidding entities and the user interface;
• assigning one or more offerings from one or more of the bidding entities to one or more of the multiple sub-spaces based on said processing;
• and
• outputting, to at least one user in response to a query associated with a given one of the multiple types of commercial offerings of the at least one electronic commerce website, search results associated with the bidding entity assigned to the sub-space associated with the given type of commercial offering;
• wherein the steps are carried out by at least one computing device.