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Approach: They propose a curriculum learning based real-time relevance prediction using distillation . they propose e-commerce search systems that use transformers to predict relevance .
Outcome: The proposed model improves on english and Arabic in a bi-lingual relevance prediction task while maintaining low evaluation latency on CPUs.

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