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Grounded Multimodal In-Context Learning for Product Weight Estimation at Scale in E-commerce

来源日期（仅到月份） 2026-07

来源记录日期 2026-07

雷达观测 2026-11-01 22:08

摘要

Accurately inferring implicit physical attributes of products, such as weight, is critical for large-scale e-commerce logistics but challenging due to sparse or unreliable textual metadata and high visual variability. We formulate weight estimation as a grounded multimodal reasoning problem and investigate whether large vision-language models (LVLMs) can infer discretized weight buckets through in-context learning (ICL) over product images and descriptions. We introduce a scalable inference framework that conditions predictions on automatically retrieved, category-specific exemplars and propose a distribution-calibrated retrieval strategy that aligns few-shot contexts with the empirical weight distribution of each product sub-category. This calibration substantially improves few-shot multimodal reasoning compared to random or embedding-based retrieval baselines. Across 14 high-variance categories, our approach significantly outperforms strong multimodal KNN baselines in both exact-match accuracy and near-bucket reliability. Deployed in production on a large e-commerce platform, our system processes millions of listings daily and reduces shipping-related revenue leakage by \sim22%, demonstrating that multimodal ICL can serve as a practical and cost-effective alternative to manual or hardware-based verification.