Visual Discovery at Pinterest
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Abstract (arXiv)
Over the past three years Pinterest has experimented with several visual search and recommendation services, including Related Pins (2014), Similar Looks (2015), Flashlight (2016) and Lens (2017). This paper presents an overview of our visual discovery engine powering these services, and shares the rationales behind our technical and product decisions such as the use of object detection and interactive user interfaces. We conclude that this visual discovery engine significantly improves engagement in both search and recommendation tasks.
Key facts. Cited by 11 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). First posted on arXiv 15 Feb 2017.
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Citing papers per year: 2021: 2; 2022: 2; 2023: 5; 2024: 0; 2025: 1; 2026: 1.
11 papers.
- 2023Online Matching: A Real-time Bandit System for Large-scale Recommendationscited by 8
- 2022Visually Similar Products Retrieval for Shopsycited by 1
- 2023Efficient Large-Scale Visual Representation Learning And Evaluationcited by 1
- 2023Securing Visually-Aware Recommender Systems: An Adversarial Image Reconstruction and Detection Frameworkcited by 1
- 2023Learning with Multi-modal Gradient Attention for Explainable Composed Image Retrievalcited by 1
- 2021Virtual ID Discovery from E-commerce Media at Alibaba: Exploiting Richness of User Click Behavior for Visual Search Relevancecited by 0
- 2021Web-Scale Generic Object Detection at Microsoft Bingcited by 0
- 2022MetaCon: Unified Predictive Segments System with Trillion Concept Meta-Learningcited by 0
- 2023ICAR: Image-based Complementary Auto Reasoningcited by 0
- 2025Applying Deep Learning to Ads Conversion Prediction in Last Mile Delivery Marketplacecited by 0
- 2026PinPoint: Evaluation of Composed Image Retrieval with Explicit Negatives, Multi-Image Queries, and Paraphrase Testingcited by 0
- 2026PinPoint: Evaluation of Composed Image Retrieval with Explicit Negatives, Multi-Image Queries, and Paraphrase Testing4 Mar 2026
- 2025Applying Deep Learning to Ads Conversion Prediction in Last Mile Delivery Marketplace14 Feb 2025
- 2023Learning with Multi-modal Gradient Attention for Explainable Composed Image Retrieval31 Aug 2023
- 2023ICAR: Image-based Complementary Auto Reasoning17 Aug 2023
- 2023Online Matching: A Real-time Bandit System for Large-scale Recommendations29 Jul 2023
- 2023Securing Visually-Aware Recommender Systems: An Adversarial Image Reconstruction and Detection Framework11 Jun 2023
- 2023Efficient Large-Scale Visual Representation Learning And Evaluation22 May 2023
- 2022Visually Similar Products Retrieval for Shopsy10 Oct 2022
- 2022MetaCon: Unified Predictive Segments System with Trillion Concept Meta-Learning9 Mar 2022
- 2021Web-Scale Generic Object Detection at Microsoft Bing5 Jul 2021
- 2021Virtual ID Discovery from E-commerce Media at Alibaba: Exploiting Richness of User Click Behavior for Visual Search Relevance9 Feb 2021