Inferring Substitutable Products with Deep Network Embedding

Inferring Substitutable Products with Deep Network Embedding

Shijie Zhang, Hongzhi Yin, Qinyong Wang, Tong Chen, Hongxu Chen, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen

Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 4306-4312. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/598

On E-commerce platforms, understanding the relationships (e.g., substitute and complement) among products from user's explicit feedback, such as users' online transactions, is of great importance to boost extra sales. However, the significance of such relationships is usually neglected by existing recommender systems. In this paper, we propose a semisupervised deep embedding model, namely, Substitute Products Embedding Model (SPEM), which models the substitutable relationships between products by preserving the second-order proximity, negative first-order proximity and semantic similarity in a product co-purchasing graph based on user's purchasing behaviours. With SPEM, the learned representations of two substitutable products align closely in the latent embedding space. Extensive experiments on real-world datasets are conducted, and the results verify that our model outperforms state-of-the-art baselines.
Keywords:
Machine Learning: Data Mining
Machine Learning: Deep Learning
Machine Learning: Recommender Systems