Title
Quality-aware neural complementary item recommendation.
Abstract
Complementary item recommendation finds products that go well with one another (e.g., a camera and a specific lens). While complementary items are ubiquitous, the dimensions by which items go together can vary by both product and category, making it difficult to detect complementary items at scale. Moreover, in practice, user preferences for complementary items can be complex combinations of item quality and evidence of complementarity. Hence, we propose a new neural complementary recommender Encore that can jointly learn complementary item relationships and user preferences. Specifically, Encore (i) effectively combines and balances both stylistic and functional evidence of complementary items across item categories; (ii) naturally models item latent quality for complementary items through Bayesian inference of customer ratings; and (iii) builds a novel neural network model to learn the complex (non-linear) relationships between items for flexible and scalable complementary product recommendations. Through experiments over large Amazon datasets, we find that Encore effectively learns complementary item relationships, leading to an improvement in accuracy of 15.5% on average versus the next-best alternative.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3240323.3240368
RecSys '18: Twelfth ACM Conference on Recommender Systems Vancouver British Columbia Canada October, 2018
Keywords
Field
DocType
Complementary Item, Quality-aware, Recommendation
Complementarity (molecular biology),Bayesian inference,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Artificial neural network,Machine learning,Scalability
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5901-6
7
0.43
References 
Authors
26
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yin Zhang180.78
Haokai Lu2725.30
Wei Niu3445.16
James Caverlee42484145.47