Sanjyot Thete

Retrieve, Match, Escalate: Accurate and Scalable Product Linking with VLM-Distilled Cross-Encoders and Agentic VLMs

This work presents a production retrieve-then-match cascade that spends computation in proportion to difficulty: retrieval surfaces plausible matches, a lightweight text cross-encoder auto-resolves the high-confidence majority, and an agentic multimodal vision-language model settles the ambiguous remainder.