Sapan Patel

Distill Globally, Adapt Locally: Reasoning Distillation and Product-Type Test-Time Training for Scalable Trade-Up Recommendation

Trade-up recommendation identifies higher-quality alternatives that preserve a customer's purchase intent while offering upgraded benefits. Large language models (LLMs) can reason about such distinctions, but applying them directly to hundreds of millions of product pairs is operationally impractical. We introduce a tw...