Personalizes query completion in digital commerce with image-based vectors.
problem High bounce rate and low recurring users in query completion.
method Injects dense vectors from product images into a noisy channel model.
result Image-based personalization improves query completion and user experience.
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.
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.
This study synthesizes stablecoin systems and develops a performance evaluation framework.
problem Fragmented academic research on stablecoins across economics, law, and computer science.
method Multi-method research design including literature synthesis, performance evaluation framework, and case study.
result Unified taxonomy and performance evaluation framework for stablecoin design.
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.
SessionPath improves category suggestions in type-ahead search.
problem Improving precision and recall in eCommerce type-ahead suggestions.
method SessionPath uses session embeddings and a probability distribution model to predict facets.
result SessionPath outperforms count-based and neural models in eCommerce shops.
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.
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…
Study optimizes smart contract adoption under high demand variability using Negative Binomial models.
problem Effective supply chain management under high demand variability.
method Combines dynamic Negative Binomial demand modeling with endogenous smart contract adoption optimization.
result The NB model outperforms other benchmarks in forecasting and optimizing smart contract adoption and order quantity.
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…
RL platform enhances user journeys in healthcare apps.
problem Improving user experience and personalization in healthcare apps.
method Reinforcement learning framework for adaptive interventions.
result Significant increase in basket size through personalized recommendations.
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.
Study improves fraud detection in e-commerce with a stacked model combining CNNs, GNNs, and confidence gating.
problem Detecting credit card fraud in online transactions.
method Stacking approach with attention and confidence-driven layers, using DOWA and IOWA operators.
result The method achieves high accuracy and robust generalization in CCF detection.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
In many developing countries intellectual property infringement and the commerce of pirate goods is an entrepreneurial activity. Digital piracy is very often the only media for having access to music, cinema, books and software. At the same time, bio-prospecting and infringement of indigenous knowledge rights by intern…
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 …
Search is a prominent channel for discovering products on an e-commerce platform. Ranking products retrieved from search becomes crucial to address customer's need and optimize for business metrics. While learning to Rank (LETOR) models have been extensively studied and have demonstrated efficacy in the context of web …
Online advertising in E-commerce platforms provides sellers an opportunity to achieve potential audiences with different target goals. Ad serving systems (like display and search advertising systems) that assign ads to pages should satisfy objectives such as plenty of audience for branding advertisers, clicks or conver…
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.
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…
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.
Uplift models support decision-making in marketing campaign planning. Estimating the causal effect of a marketing treatment, an uplift model facilitates targeting communication to responsive customers and efficient allocation of marketing budgets. Research into uplift models focuses on conversion models to maximize inc…
Digital money could reduce germ spread during coronavirus.
problem Spreading of germs via paper money during coronavirus.
method Policy recommendations for mobile wallets, digital currencies, and data protection.
result Adopting digital money can help reduce germ spread.
With the rapid growth in fashion e-commerce and customer-friendly product return policies, the cost to handle returned products has become a significant challenge. E-tailers incur huge losses in terms of reverse logistics costs, liquidation cost due to damaged returns or fraudulent behavior. Accurate prediction of prod…
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 …
Study of digital topology concepts like hyperspaces and function graphs.
problem Adapting classical topology concepts to digital topology.
method Define digital hyperspaces and function graphs, study their properties.
result Some relationships and graphical properties of digital hyperspaces and function graphs.
Proposes a novel network for CTR prediction by learning modality-specific and modality-invariant representations.
problem Learning good representation of items from multimodal features in E-commerce is challenging due to redundant information across modalities.
method Introduces a Multimodal Adversarial Representation Network (MARN) that calculates modality-specific weights and learns modality-invariant representations.
result Consistently achieves remarkable improvements over state-of-the-art methods in CTR prediction.
The paper highlights issues with fixed point claims in digital images.
problem Flaws in published assertions about fixed points in digital images.
method Continues a series of studies examining digital topology.
result Identifies and discusses problems with fixed point claims.
Find limiting sets for digital cones and suspensions.
problem Digital topology cone and suspension constructions.
method Identify (m, n)-limiting sets, especially (0, 0)-freezing sets.
result Discover (0, 0)-limiting sets for digital cones and suspensions.