Title
Tree-Based Feature Transformation For Purchase Behavior Prediction
Abstract
In the era of e-commerce, purchase behavior prediction is one of the most important issues to promote both online companies' sales and the consumers' experience. The previous researches usually use the feature engineering and ensemble machine learning algorithms for the prediction. The performance really depends on designed features and the scalability of algorithms because the large-scale data and a lot of categorical features lead to huge samples and the high-dimensional feature. In this study, we explore an alternative to use tree-based Feature Transformation (FT) and simple machine learning algorithms (e.g. Logistic Regression). Random Forest (RF) and Gradient Boosting decision tree (GB) are used for FT. Then, the simple algorithm, rather than ensemble algorithms, is used to predict purchase behavior based on transformed features. Tree-based FT regards the leaves of trees as transformed features, and can learn high-order interactions among original features. Compared with RF, if GB is used for FT, simple algorithms are enough to achieve better performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1587/transinf.2017EDL8210
IEICE TRANSACTIONS ON INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
feature transformation, purchase behavior prediction
Feature transformation,Pattern recognition,Computer science,Artificial intelligence
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
E101D
5
1745-1361
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chunyan Hou1116.09
Chen Chen293.18
Jinsong Wang383.15