Solving Technical Challenges with Large AI Models at JD Retail: Reward Modeling, Query Expansion, and Model Pruning
JD Retail’s engineering team tackles hard AI problems by replacing a monolithic reward model with specialized small models for ad‑image generation, deploying an LLM‑driven query‑expansion pipeline that lifts conversion rates, and pruning text‑to‑image transformers using FFT and RDP to boost throughput 40% without loss, while building comprehensive evaluation tools and a semantic smart‑assistant.