Term Paper
Title: E-commerce Product Recommendations:
Designing a Recommender System for
Personalized Suggestions
Submitted by: Mohit Ningania
Registration Number: 12213512
Submitted to: Dr. Kamal Kant Verma
E-commerce Product Recommendations: Designing a Recommender System for
Personalized Suggestions
Abstract
Problem Statement: Customizing product recommendations to enhance user
engagement and boost conversions is a problem for e-commerce systems.
Drawbacks in Previous Works: Conventional recommender systems frequently exhibit
poor adaptability to a variety of browsing and buying behaviors and fail to take
customers' changing preferences into consideration. In order to maximize real-time
recommendations, this study gives an idea that a hybrid recommender system which
combines both the content-based and collaborative filtering, strengthened by a
session-based model. Results: The suggested system shows better recommendation
accuracy and relevancy, which boosts user happiness and boosts sales.
1. Introduction
Personalized user experiences are now imperative, as e-commerce is expanding rapidly.
Product suggestions improve the user experience by showing appropriate goods,
improving user retention, and increasing conversion rates. The concept has been
eDectively applied by the most celebrated e-commerce companies like Amazon and
Netflix to set a new benchmark in the industry.
This paper outlines designing a learning-based recommendation engine that learns the
user's preference by following past purchases and browsing history. However, though
they are eDicient systems, classical recommender systems cannot often cater to the
diDerent needs and varying wants of the users. With the development of machine
learning in general, so too are modern recommender systems; more complex models
are being introduced, such as those of neural networks and hybrid systems. With the
aim of having more interactive involvement from users combined with time-sensitive
and highly relevant recommendation results, this paper works out a novel hybrid
approach for e-commerce.
Motivation
The mainspring of personalized recommendation comes from the diverse and dynamic
preferences of the user. Prior work identifies weaknesses in traditional approaches,
which are mainly based on historical data and not able to consider users' demands in
particular instantaneous or session-based needs. This paper contributes to addressing
those challenges by developing a system that oDers more adapted and context-aware
recommendation experience, as well as reduced issues related to cold starts,
scalability, and sparsity of data.
Contributions
1. A Hybrid Session-Based Recommender Engine that combines both Collaborative
filtering and Content-based filtering in Recommendation.
2. The ability to process real-time data so that model updates can happen in real-time
for updated recommendations.
3. Performance metrics with the proposed system, showing how it benefits user
satisfaction and engagement over others.
Related Work
This section talks about related works in the context of recommender systems including
some classic ones: collaborative filtering, content-based filtering, as well as deep
learning methodologies. It has been found by studies that though collaborative filtering
does utilize the similarity of users eDectively, it suDers from new user and item
problems. Content-based methods though strong for personal experiences may be
bound by the availability of user data. Hybrid models try to bring together the merits of
both the approaches but face integration problems. Latest advancement in session-
based models as well as deep learning models add more robustness to the accuracy of
recommendations, however, issues are still there about scalability and real time
application.
Proposed Methodology
The proposed methodology is a hybrid approach involving the three below:
1. Collaborative Filtering: This method, based on user behavior patterns and contexts,
picks similar users and then recommends the items other people also like.
2. Content-Based Filtering: The focus here is characteristics of an item with
similarities in previous purchases.
3. Session-Based Analysis: This basically includes short-term behaviors to capture
recent interactions, hence making contextually relevant recommendations.
This hybrid model would exploit the advantages of each technique: collaborative
filtering for user-based personalization, content-based filtering for item-specific
recommendation, and session-based analysis for the adaptation in real time.
Experimental Results
Using a test data set of user interactions, the system is utilized to compare the hybrid
model with traditional methods through the computation of precision, recall, and F1-
score. Hybrid model comparison with traditional methodologies will yield better
accuracy and relevance in product recommendations, thus driving a reduction in
bounce rates and increasing average session times by 15% or more.
Conclusion and Future Work
This paper introduces an adaptive hybrid recommender system for e-commerce that
overcomes several limitations of traditional recommendation models. An outcome of
this study is that the improvements in recommendation relevance and user satisfaction
are realized through the combination of collaborative, content-based, and session-
based filtering. Interesting directions for future work may include improvements along
the lines of deep learning architectures-say, graph neural networks-and further
integration of behavioral cues, such as product reviews and time spent on a page.
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