AI RESEARCH

Localization Boosting for Growth Markets: Mitigating Cross-Locale Behavioral Bias in Learning-to-Rank

arXiv CS.AI

ArXi:2605.11272v1 Announce Type: cross Adobe Express is expanding internationally, but the US has a disproportionately large content supply and interaction volume. Learning-to-rank (LTR) models trained primarily on behavioral feedback inherit this imbalance: templates popular in US are over-served in non-US locales. This cross-locale exposure bias suppresses local content discoverability and degrades ranking quality in growth locales. We show that click-only