Product categorization using text data for eCommerce is a very challenging extreme classification problem with several thousands of classes and several millions of products to classify. Even though multi-class text classification is a well studied problem both in academia and industry, most approaches either deal with …
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Extraction of missing attribute values is to find values describing an attribute of interest from a free text input. Most past related work on extraction of missing attribute values work with a closed world assumption with the possible set of values known beforehand, or use dictionaries of values and hand-crafted featu…
Proposes new attribution methods for trees with regularization.
problem Feature attribution for trees trained with regularization.
method Prediction Decomposition Attribution (PreDecomp) and TreeInner.
result TreeInner shows state-of-the-art feature selection performance.
Deep models predict missing product attributes from text and images.
problem Incomplete or missing product attributes in e-commerce catalogs.
method Combining textual and visual data with a novel modality-merging method.
result Our approach improves attribute prediction on Rakuten-Ichiba and other datasets.
ASTRA improves TDA by more accurately approximating iHVP.
problem Improving insights into training data attribution.
method ASTRA uses EKFAC-preconditioner on Neumann series iterations to accurately approximate iHVP.
result Improving iHVP approximation significantly improves TDA performance.
The paper improves consumer preference modeling by considering multiple product categories.
problem Estimating consumer preferences across multiple product categories with varying attributes and price sensitivity.
method Extends matrix factorization techniques to account for time-varying product attributes and out-of-stock products, pooling information across categories to estimate heterogeneity in preferences.
result The model improves over traditional approaches, accurately estimating consumer preferences and price sensitivity.
Proposes a comprehensive framework for financial product lead recommendations using graph representation learning and link prediction.
problem Challenges in surface lead recommendations for financial products due to changing market scenarios and difficulty in capturing holder's mindset.
method Bi-partite graph representation of financial holders and funds, GraphSage model for learning representations, link prediction model for ranking recommendations.
result The proposed graph ML solution outperforms baseline by 42%, 22%, and 14% in hit rate for top-k recommendations (50, 100, 200) and 18%, 19%, and 18% on unseen holders.
New algorithm reduces regret in dynamic assortment selection.
problem Dynamic assortment selection with consumer choice modeling.
method Optimistic algorithm with convex relaxation.
result Regret bound of , improving over existing methods.
Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) have proved to be a most powerful architecture in aggregating local neighborhood information for individual graph nodes. Low-rank proximities and node features are successfully leveraged in existing GCNs, however, attributes that graph links may carry are commonly ignored, as almost …
We propose graph kernels based on subgraph matchings, i.e. structure-preserving bijections between subgraphs. While recently proposed kernels based on common subgraphs (Wale et al., 2008; Shervashidze et al., 2009) in general can not be applied to attributed graphs, our approach allows to rate mappings of subgraphs by …
Study copyright's impact on creative industries using AI-generated fonts.
problem Estimating supply and demand in creative industries with AI-generated content.
method Neural network embeddings, spatial regression, event-study analyses, structural model of supply and demand.
result Copyright can raise consumer welfare by encouraging product relocation.
We describe the first sub-quadratic sampling algorithm for the Multiplicative Attribute Graph Model (MAGM) of Kim and Leskovec (2010). We exploit the close connection between MAGM and the Kronecker Product Graph Model (KPGM) of Leskovec et al. (2010), and show that to sample a graph from a MAGM it suffices to sample sm…
Estimating and Implementing Conventional Fairness Metrics With Probabilistic Protected Featurescs.LG
Develops methods to measure and reduce fairness in datasets with limited protected attribute labels.
problem Measuring and reducing fairness in datasets with limited protected attribute labels.
method Proposes methods to estimate fairness metrics and train models to limit fairness violations using probabilistic protected attribute labels.
result Our methods provide tighter bounds on true disparity and effectively reduce fairness violations with lesser fairness-accuracy trade-offs.
Proposes a deep learning approach for attributed graph clustering.
problem Suboptimal performance in graph clustering due to two-step frameworks.
method Goal-directed deep learning approach using attention networks and inner product decoders.
result Superior performance compared to state-of-the-art algorithms.
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 …
An Exponential Factorization Machine with Percentage Error Minimization to Retail Sales Forecastingcs.LG
New model predicts sales of new products with short life cycles.
problem Forecasting sales of new products with short lead times and life cycles.
method Developed an exponential factorization machine (EFM) to consider attributes and pairwise interactions.
result EFM model outperforms existing models in terms of MAPE and MAE.
StyleDiff compares unlabeled datasets using disentangled image spaces.
problem Mismatches between development and real-world datasets lead to inaccurate predictions.
method Uses disentangled image spaces and focuses on attributes to compare datasets.
result Accurately detects and presents differences between datasets.
GBS uses machine learning to design products based on consumer preferences.
problem Designing products to meet consumer preferences.
method GBS is a discrete choice experiment that uses machine learning to adaptively construct paired comparison questions.
result GBS outperforms existing methods in accuracy and sample efficiency.
Learning attribute applicability of products in the Amazon catalog (e.g., predicting that a shoe should have a value for size, but not for battery-type at scale is a challenge. The need for an interpretable model is contingent on (1) the lack of ground truth training data, (2) the need to utilise prior information abou…
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.
Predictive models are increasingly deployed for the purpose of determining access to services such as credit, insurance, and employment. Despite potential gains in productivity and efficiency, several potential problems have yet to be addressed, particularly the potential for unintentional discrimination. We present an…
The study compares different game-theoretic attribution methods and finds that interventional Shapley values yield less consistent results than Aumann-Shapley due to path symmetry.
problem Investigating the influence of path choice on game-theoretic attribution algorithms.
method Comparative analysis of interventional Shapley values and Generalized Integrated Gradients (GIG) methods.
result Interventional Shapley values yield less consistent attributions than Aumann-Shapley due to path symmetry and extended away from the training data manifold.
New method for efficient sketching of gradients and Hessians.
problem Memory constraints in training machine learning models.
method A novel framework for scalable gradient and HVP sketching tailored for modern hardware.
result Theoretical guarantees and practical applications in training data attribution and Hessian spectrum analysis.
This paper analyzes SHAP values using Fourier expansions for model interpretability.
problem Understanding and interpreting SHAP values in complex models.
method Developed a spectral framework using Fourier expansions for SHAP values in various model regimes.
result SHAP values are Lipschitz continuous in the deterministic regime and converge to Gaussian process values in the probabilistic regime.
AI-enhanced product embeddings boost demand analysis accuracy.
problem Traditional demand analysis struggles with nuanced product attributes.
method Combining text, images, and tabular data with transformer embeddings for causal inference.
result AI-enhanced embeddings improve sales rank and price predictions.
Agricultural research has been profited by technical advances such as automation, data mining. Today, data mining is used in a vast areas and many off-the-shelf data mining system products and domain specific data mining application soft wares are available, but data mining in agricultural soil datasets is a relatively…
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.
Economic factors significantly influence stock returns, as shown by attribution analysis.
problem The influence of economic factors on stock returns.
method Attribution model using five classic factors and new factors like Market Indices, Consumptions, and Oil Prices.
result Stock returns are exposed to economic news and priced based on risk exposure.
This paper describes a practical system for Multi Touch Attribution (MTA) for use by a publisher of digital ads. We developed this system for JD.com, an eCommerce company, which is also a publisher of digital ads in China. The approach has two steps. The first step ('response modeling') fits a user-level model for purc…
Data mining involves the systematic analysis of large data sets, and data mining in agricultural soil datasets is exciting and modern research area. The productive capacity of a soil depends on soil fertility. Achieving and maintaining appropriate levels of soil fertility, is of utmost importance if agricultural land i…
From Reviews to Actionable Insights: An LLM-Based Approach for Attribute and Feature Extractionstat.ML
LLM extracts actionable insights from customer reviews.
problem Extracting actionable insights from customer reviews.
method Large language model approach distinguishing perceptual attributes from actionable features.
result High consistency and predictive validity of LLM insights compared to human coders.
Method retrieves similar fashion items from images and text, enabling style refinement.
problem Lack of intuitive, interactive refinement in search engines for fashion items.
method Joint visual-textual embedding training, Mini-Batch Match Retrieval, attribute extraction.
result Improved performance in multimodal style search, demonstrated through benchmark.
This paper presents a Semantic Attribute Modulation (SAM) for language modeling and style variation. The semantic attribute modulation includes various document attributes, such as titles, authors, and document categories. We consider two types of attributes, (title attributes and category attributes), and a flexible a…
Customers are usually exposed to online digital advertisement channels, such as email marketing, display advertising, paid search engine marketing, along their way to purchase or subscribe products( aka. conversion). The marketers track all the customer journey data and try to measure the effectiveness of each advertis…
It is easy for people to imagine what a man with pink hair looks like, even if they have never seen such a person before. We call the ability to create images of novel semantic concepts visually grounded imagination. In this paper, we show how we can modify variational auto-encoders to perform this task. Our method use…
Deep chest X-ray classifiers show bias in predicting diagnoses.
problem Bias in deep learning classifiers predicting diagnoses from chest X-rays.
method Trained convolutional neural networks on multiple public datasets to predict 14 diagnostic labels.
result True positive rates vary significantly among different protected attributes, indicating bias.
Proposes a Taylor framework to unify and analyze attribution methods.
problem Lack of a unified guideline for feature contribution assignment in machine learning models.
method Introduces a Taylor attribution framework to model the attribution problem and reformulates fourteen mainstream methods.
result Empirically validates the Taylor reformulations and reveals a positive correlation between performance and principles followed.
One key requirement for effective supply chain management is the quality of its inventory management. Various inventory management methods are typically employed for different types of products based on their demand patterns, product attributes, and supply network. In this paper, our goal is to develop robust demand pr…
Unified framework for analyzing machine learning model attributions.
problem Lack of a general and theoretical framework for understanding attribution methods.
method Proposes a Taylor attribution framework to unify and analyze seven mainstream attribution methods.
result Established three principles for good attribution and empirically validated the Taylor reformulations.
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.
Improved deep learning models using new attribution priors and expected gradients.
problem Improving interpretability and performance of deep learning models.
method Introducing new attribution priors and expected gradients method that satisfies interpretability axioms.
result Improves model performance across various real-world tasks.
Facial attribute editing aims to manipulate single or multiple attributes of a face image, i.e., to generate a new face with desired attributes while preserving other details. Recently, generative adversarial net (GAN) and encoder-decoder architecture are usually incorporated to handle this task with promising results.…
We introduce a novel and efficient sampling algorithm for the Multiplicative Attribute Graph Model (MAGM - Kim and Leskovec (2010)}). Our algorithm is \emph{strictly} more efficient than the algorithm proposed by Yun and Vishwanathan (2012), in the sense that our method extends the \emph{best} time complexity guarantee…
Wavelet Attribution Method (WAM) improves feature attribution for deep models.
problem Inability of pixel-based heatmaps to capture data structure and variability in feature attribution.
method Wavelet domain for feature attribution, leveraging spatial and scale-localized properties of wavelet coefficients.
result WAM provides quantitatively superior explanations across audio, image, and volume modalities.
Proposes VCLANC for attributed network clustering using node and attribute embeddings.
problem Lack of mutual affinity exploitation between nodes and attributes in graph convolution.
method Dual variational auto-encoders for node and attribute embeddings, Gaussian mixture model priors, mutual distance and clustering assignment hardening losses.
result Demonstrates effectiveness on real-world attributed network datasets.
Generates missing node attributes for better graph-based tasks.
problem Missing or incomplete node attributes degrade graph-based algorithms' performance.
method Deep adversarial learning-based method (NANG) to generate node attributes.
result Generated node attributes improve node classification and link prediction.
Proposes a method to predict node attributes using network topology.
problem Predicting node attributes in graphs for various applications.
method Creates a feature map using all attributes of neighbors to predict attributes values for a node.
result Significantly improves prediction accuracy compared to baseline approaches.
Investors seek to attribute performance to various features using Shapley value method.
problem Attributing performance to different features in an investment process.
method Use Shapley value method for attribution, either exactly or approximately.
result Shapley value method provides a preferred attribution approach.