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e-commerce marketing teams

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Pipeline generates personalized photorealistic advertising images using AI

I Am AdMan: A Pipeline for Automatic Generation of Personalized Advertising Imagery

Abstract: Personalized marketing can increase customer engagement, satisfaction, and conversion. While existing personalization approaches have become effective at matching the right product to the right customer, the visual representation of advertisements remains generic and only weakly tailored to the individual. Prior research shows that generative artificial intelligence can improve the creation of personalized advertisements, particularly for text, and that image generation models can support scalable advertisement production. However, little research has examined how detailed customer information can be systematically translated into fully AI-generated, personalized advertising imagery at scale on a technical level. To address this gap, we propose AdMan, a multi-agent pipeline that transforms customer data into personas, generates personalized advertisement images conditioned on product reference images, and applies an LLM-based judge agent for automated quality control. We implement the pipeline with two different model configurations and evaluate it across four products, using six celebrity personas for qualitative inspection, and 100 real customer profiles, producing 1745 advertisements. The evaluation combines a qualitative expert focus group and a quantitative artifact-rate assessment. The results show that the pipeline can generate photorealistic and personalized advertisements. At the same time, performance varies substantially by product complexity and model configuration. Our findings extend the literature on AI-based personalized advertising by demonstrating the feasibility and current limitations of fully automated image generation for advertising.

Fri 11 SeptArtificial IntelligenceHuman-Computer Interaction
The gist
Personalized ads usually match products to people but often look generic. The authors created a system called AdMan that uses customer info and AI to make custom ad images that look real. These ads change based on who the customer is, the product, and can be made automatically at large scale. The system's quality varies depending on the product and the AI model used, showing both promise and current challenges. This work helps understand how AI might fully automate personalized advertising images someday.
Open 2609.12694v1

Multi-agent ai system improves seller visibility in online shopping

Agentic Share-of-Search: A Multi-Agent AI System for Competitive Decision-Making in LLM-Mediated E-Commerce

Abstract: AI shopping assistants increasingly redirect consumer discovery, creating an urgent need for tools that support seller-side competitive decision-making. We present a multi-agent AI system that automates competitive visibility measurement and root cause diagnosis in LLM-mediated ecommerce. The system introduces Agentic Share-of-Search (ASoS) as the decision target, deploys query agents across leading AI platforms, and uses a ReAct-based diagnostic agent to recommend prioritized merchandising interventions. A 100-trial ablation study, presented as a feasibility evaluation of this prototype, shows the agent recovers the ablated signal in 39% of trials (95% CI: 30.0% - 48.8%, 5.5x over chance), rising to 63.9% among high-correlation ablations.

Thu 10 SeptArtificial IntelligenceInformation Retrieval
The gist
Online shopping assistants now guide what shoppers find, making it hard for sellers to compete. The authors created a system with multiple AI agents that measures how visible a seller is when shoppers search and figures out why visibility changes. By testing parts of the system, they found it can recover important signals much better than guessing. This helps sellers decide how to improve their product placement in online shops.
Open 2609.11190v1