Automates size normalization for fashion items.
problem Reduce merchandise returns in e-commerce.
method Uses sales data to automate size mapping.
result Automated size mappings comparable to human-generated ones.
The paper proposes a machine learning technique to optimize prices in fashion e-commerce.
problem Optimizing prices for millions of products in fashion e-commerce to maximize revenue and profit.
method Demand prediction, price elasticity, multiple price demand pairs, linear programming optimization.
result The model improved revenue by 1% and gross margin by 0.81% in AB tests.
Deep learning predicts fit for fashion e-commerce.
problem Predicting correct fit for customer satisfaction and cost reduction.
method Deep learning content-collaborative approach using customer and article embeddings.
result Significant improvement over state-of-the-art methods.
Deep neural network predicts product returns before purchase.
problem High costs of handling returned fashion products.
method Bayesian Personalized Ranking (BPR) embeddings and skip-gram model for user and product features.
result Reduced overall returns through real-time return probability prediction.
Bayesian model predicts fashion size recommendations and returns.
problem Predicting optimal fashion sizes and handling returns efficiently.
method Hierarchical Bayesian model for size and return events.
result Model incorporates domain expertise and article characteristics.
Paper builds LETOR models for e-commerce, segmenting queries and optimizing search results.
problem Optimizing search results for e-commerce platforms.
method Segmenting queries into broad and narrow, using denoising auto-encoders and skip-gram embeddings, employing various feature types.
result Specialized models for broad and narrow queries outperform a combined model.
Proposes PKG embedding for e-commerce products.
problem Learning product intrinsic relations for e-commerce applications.
method Self-attention-enhanced distributed representation learning model from raw data.
result Compared favorably to baselines in knowledge completion and downstream tasks.
In this paper, we describe a solution to tackle a common set of challenges in e-commerce, which arise from the fact that new products are continually being added to the catalogue. The challenges involve properly personalising the customer experience, forecasting demand and planning the product range. We argue that the …
Contextual bandit framework improves revenue optimization in securities lending market.
problem Optimizing revenue for agent lenders in a dynamic securities lending market.
method Utilized contextual bandit frameworks to address dynamic pricing problems in an e-commerce-like securities lending market.
result Contextual bandit approach consistently outperforms traditional methods by at least 15% in total revenue generated.
This paper discusses e-commerce integration with SAP for Turkish businesses.
problem ERP integration of e-commerce systems for Turkish companies.
method Proposes a solution for integrating ERP with e-commerce systems.
result SAP integration improves company processes and e-commerce efficiency.
An evolutionary game model analyzes e-commerce and traditional retail trends during the pandemic.
problem Understanding the dynamics between e-commerce and traditional retail during the pandemic.
method Developed an evolutionary game model to study consumer-producer interactions on e-commerce platforms.
result Investment in logistics and warehouses in e-commerce led to faster delivery and consumer trends.
Combining items of clothing into an outfit is a major task in fashion retail. Recommending sets of items that are compatible with a particular seed item is useful for providing users with guidance and inspiration, but is currently a manual process that requires expert stylists and is therefore not scalable or easy to p…
We evaluate how modern outlier detection methods perform in identifying outliers in e-commerce conversion rate data. Based on the limitations identified, we then present a novel method to detect outliers in e-commerce conversion rate. This unsupervised method is made more business relevant by letting it automatically a…
Sales forecasts are crucial for the E-commerce business. State-of-the-art techniques typically apply only univariate methods to make prediction for each series independently. However, due to the short nature of sales times series in E-commerce, univariate methods don't apply well. In this article, we propose a global m…
Optimizes revenue and performance goals in e-commerce advertising with budget constraints.
problem Maximizing revenue and satisfying multiple performance goals in e-commerce advertising systems.
method Linear programming approach to optimize revenue and performance goals simultaneously.
result Our algorithm improves campaign performance and platform revenue effectively.
The paper proposes a demand prediction model for e-commerce sites using machine learning and stacking.
problem Accurately predicting demand for products sold by multiple sellers at different prices.
method Applied different regression algorithms and stacked generalization for demand prediction.
result Stacked generalization produced almost as good results as individual machine learning methods.
Paper aims to improve relevance of e-commerce search results.
problem Improving relevance of online product search results.
method Combines machine learning, NLP, and IR techniques to predict relevance scores.
result Deep learning models outperform conventional IR models in relevance prediction.
In e-commerce, content quality of the product catalog plays a key role in delivering a satisfactory experience to the customers. In particular, visual content such as product images influences customers' engagement and purchase decisions. With the rapid growth of e-commerce and the advent of artificial intelligence, tr…
InfDetect detects e-commerce insurance fraud using graph analysis.
problem Detecting fraudulent claims in e-commerce insurance with multiple parties involved.
method Developed a large-scale fraud detection system InfDetect using graph-based approaches.
result InfDetect successfully detected thousands of fraudulent claims and saved money daily.
Generating accurate and reliable sales forecasts is crucial in the E-commerce business. The current state-of-the-art techniques are typically univariate methods, which produce forecasts considering only the historical sales data of a single product. However, in a situation where large quantities of related time series …
As Internet-based commerce becomes increasingly widespread, large data sets about the demand for and pricing of a wide variety of products become available. These present exciting new opportunities for empirical economic and business research, but also raise new statistical issues and challenges. In this article, we su…
E-commerce sponsored search contributes an important part of revenue for the e-commerce company. In consideration of effectiveness and efficiency, a large-scale sponsored search system commonly adopts a multi-stage architecture. We name these stages as ad retrieval, ad pre-ranking and ad ranking. Ad retrieval and ad pr…
Analyzes stock trends and e-commerce user behavior using Twitter data.
problem Understanding the relationship between stock prices, stock news, and e-commerce user behavior.
method Cross-domain analysis using Hadoop, Hive, and Tableau on three datasets.
result Identified correlations between stock sentiment, stock trends, and e-commerce user behavior.
We describe the Customer LifeTime Value (CLTV) prediction system deployed at ASOS.com, a global online fashion retailer. CLTV prediction is an important problem in e-commerce where an accurate estimate of future value allows retailers to effectively allocate marketing spend, identify and nurture high value customers an…
Paper proposes a deep learning model for understanding e-commerce addresses.
problem Challenges in parsing shipping addresses with no fixed format.
method Combines NLP techniques with pre-processing steps for addresses, uses RoBERTa for vector representations.
result RoBERTa model achieves 90% accuracy in sub-region classification for North and South Indian cities.
A deep reinforcement learning approach for slate re-ranking in e-commerce.
problem Improving user satisfaction in e-commerce by optimizing the ranking of items in a slate.
method Generator and Critic approach, using reinforcement learning and a Full Slate Critic model.
result The Generator and Critic approach significantly outperforms existing methods in slate evaluation and efficiency.
Adverts optimize organic traffic by strategically bidding in e-commerce feeds.
problem Maximizing organic traffic through strategic advertising in e-commerce feeds.
method Proposes a novel Leverage optimization problem and a Hybrid Training Leverage Bidding (HTLB) algorithm to optimize traffic.
result Demonstrates superior performance of the HTLB algorithm in optimizing organic traffic.
Online retailers execute a very large number of price updates when compared to brick-and-mortar stores. Even a few mis-priced items can have a significant business impact and result in a loss of customer trust. Early detection of anomalies in an automated real-time fashion is an important part of such a pricing system.…
Automatic voice-controlled systems have changed the way humans interact with a computer. Voice or speech recognition systems allow a user to make a hands-free request to the computer, which in turn processes the request and serves the user with appropriate responses. After years of research and developments in machine …
Unified product embeddings improve cross-task performance in e-commerce.
problem Training product embeddings in isolation limits cross-task performance.
method Combining text, clickstream, and image data using denoising auto-encoders, BPR, and Siamese neural networks.
result Unified product embeddings uniformly outperform isolated embeddings across three e-commerce tasks.
E-commerce system predicts customer interest in sequentially ordered products.
problem Modeling customer interest in sequentially ordered products.
method Embed purchased items with Word2Vec and model the sequence with LSTM RNN.
result The recommender system outperforms its predecessor in click-through rate.
Optimizes package types for e-commerce to reduce damage and costs.
problem Sub-optimal package types lead to damaged shipments and high costs.
method Multi-stage approach that balances shipment and damage costs using a scalable algorithm.
result Significant cost savings of tens of millions of dollars achieved.
Atlas dataset categorizes clothing products with high accuracy.
problem Lack of real-world datasets for e-commerce clothing product categorization.
method Collected and labeled a dataset of 186,150 images, established a benchmark for image classification and sequence models.
result Benchmark model achieved a micro f-score of 0.92.
DSPN predicts advertiser satisfaction and intent for e-commerce platforms.
problem Understanding advertiser intent and satisfaction for e-commerce platforms.
method Two-stage Deep Satisfaction Prediction Network (DSPN) that models intent and satisfaction.
result DSPN outperforms state-of-the-art baselines and predicts advertiser satisfaction accurately.
Paper proposes a method to aggregate customer engagement data for better ranking of e-commerce results.
problem Cold start problem and under-representation of new or under-impressed products in e-commerce search results.
method Aggregates customer engagements within a day for the same query as input training data for machine learning models.
result Training models on aggregated data leads to better ranking of new and under-impressed products.
New bandit model for e-commerce with ordered categories.
problem Optimizing customer experience in e-commerce with unknown preferences.
method Introducing three types of ordering between categories and proving lower bounds on cumulative regret.
result Proved that algorithms can fully leverage the structure of the model with theoretical guarantees.
TXtract extracts structured knowledge from thousands of product categories.
problem Extracting structured knowledge from diverse product categories in e-commerce.
method TXtract uses a taxonomy-aware model with category conditional self-attention and multi-task learning.
result TXtract outperforms state-of-the-art approaches by up to 10% in F1 and 15% in coverage across all categories.
EnsemFDet detects fraud by solving subproblems on small graphs, scaling up e-commerce fraud detection.
problem Detecting and preventing fraud in e-commerce, especially in large-scale bipartite graphs.
method EnsemFDet uses an ensemble approach to decompose the problem into smaller subproblems, solving them in parallel.
result EnsemFDet is up to 100x faster than state-of-the-art methods while maintaining high accuracy.
On most sponsored search platforms, advertisers bid on some keywords for their advertisements (ads). Given a search request, ad retrieval module rewrites the query into bidding keywords, and uses these keywords as keys to select Top N ads through inverted indexes. In this way, an ad will not be retrieved even if querie…
Study uses generative models to assess credit risk and determine loan sizes in e-commerce supply chain finance.
problem Credit risk assessment and loan size determination for small- and medium-sized sellers in e-commerce supply chain finance.
method Proposes a unified framework using Quantile-Regression-based Generative Metamodeling (QRGMM) integrated with Deep Factorization Machines (DeepFM) to capture complex covariate interactions in e-commerce sales data.
result Validates the model's efficacy for credit risk assessment and loan size determination on synthetic and real-world data.
Paper uses DRL for dynamic pricing on e-commerce platforms.
problem Dynamic pricing on e-commerce platforms.
method Deep reinforcement learning, Markov Decision Process (MDP), continuous price sets, difference of revenue conversion rates (DRCR).
result DRCR is a more appropriate reward function than revenue.
Modern e-commerce catalogs contain millions of references, associated with textual and visual information that is of paramount importance for the products to be found via search or browsing. Of particular significance is the book category, where the author name(s) field poses a significant challenge. Indeed, books writ…
In a large E-commerce platform, all the participants compete for impressions under the allocation mechanism of the platform. Existing methods mainly focus on the short-term return based on the current observations instead of the long-term return. In this paper, we formally establish the lifecycle model for products, by…
Deep Learning predicts e-commerce activity from Italian enterprise websites.
problem Predicting e-commerce activity from Italian enterprise websites.
method Developed a sophisticated processing pipeline using Convolutional Neural Networks and Word Embeddings.
result Deep Learning outperforms traditional Machine Learning methods for text classification.
KFAtt improves CTR prediction by modeling user behavior with Kalman filtering attention.
problem Improving CTR prediction in personalized e-commerce search engines.
method KFAtt combines Kalman filtering with attention mechanisms to model user behavior.
result KFAtt outperforms existing methods in CTR prediction, achieving better performance in both offline and online settings.
Open dataset and pipeline for realistic OPE research.
problem Lack of realistic and reproducible OPE experimental studies.
method Public logged bandit dataset and Python software.
result Enables experimental comparisons of OPE estimators.
New approach improves stock policies for paper companies, reducing waste and costs.
problem Improving stock policies for integrated paper companies.
method Developed a new approach to determine near-optimal stock policies.
result Reduction in total waste by 9% and logistics costs.
In the 'Big Data' era, many real-world applications like search involve the ranking problem for a large number of items. It is important to obtain effective ranking results and at the same time obtain the results efficiently in a timely manner for providing good user experience and saving computational costs. Valuable …