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A Bandit-Based Ensemble Framework for Exploration/Exploitation of Diverse Recommendation Components: An Experimental Study within E-Commerce
Apptus Technologies, Trollebergsvägen 5, Lund, 22229, Sweden.
Apptus Technologies, Trollebergsvägen 5, Lund, 22229, Sweden.
Malmö University, Faculty of Technology and Society (TS), Department of Computer Science and Media Technology (DVMT).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1342-8618
Malmö University, Faculty of Technology and Society (TS), Department of Computer Science and Media Technology (DVMT).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9767-5324
2020 (English)In: ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, ISSN 2160-6455, E-ISSN 2160-6463, Vol. 10, no 1, p. 4:1-4:32, article id 4Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

This work presents an extension of Thompson Sampling bandit policy for orchestrating the collection of base recommendation algorithms for e-commerce. We focus on the problem of item-to-item recommendations, for which multiple behavioral and attribute-based predictors are provided to an ensemble learner. In addition, we detail the construction of a personalized predictor based on k-Nearest Neighbors (kNN), with temporal decay capabilities and event weighting. We show how to adapt Thompson Sampling to realistic situations when neither action availability nor reward stationarity is guaranteed. Furthermore, we investigate the effects of priming the sampler with pre-set parameters of reward probability distributions by utilizing the product catalog and/or event history, when such information is available. We report our experimental results based on the analysis of three real-world e-commerce datasets.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
ACM Digital Library, 2020. Vol. 10, no 1, p. 4:1-4:32, article id 4
Keywords [en]
E-commerce recommender systems, Thompson Sampling, multi-arm bandit ensembles, session-based recommendations, streaming recommendations
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Transport Systems and Logistics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-2479DOI: 10.1145/3237187ISI: 000564083500004Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85075692959Local ID: 30500OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-2479DiVA, id: diva2:1399232
Available from: 2020-02-27 Created: 2020-02-27 Last updated: 2024-09-19Bibliographically approved
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1. Sociotechnical Aspects of Automated Recommendations: Algorithms, Ethics, and Evaluation
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Sociotechnical Aspects of Automated Recommendations: Algorithms, Ethics, and Evaluation
2020 (English)Doctoral thesis, comprehensive summary (Other academic)
Abstract [en]

Recommender systems are algorithmic tools that assist users in discovering relevant items from a wide range of available options. Along with the apparent user value in mitigating the choice overload, they have an important business value in boosting sales and customer retention. Last, but not least, they have brought a substantial research value to the algorithm developments of the past two decades, mainly in the academic community. This thesis aims to address some of the aspects that are important to consider when recommender systems pave their way towards real-life applications.

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Malmö: Malmö universitet, 2020. p. 238
Series
Studies in Computer Science ; 9
Keywords
recommender systems, recommendations, matchmaking, recommendation ethics
National Category
Computer Sciences
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urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-13750 (URN)10.24834/isbn.9789178770755 (DOI)978-91-7877-074-8 (ISBN)978-91-7877-075-5 (ISBN)
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2020-05-08, Auditorium C, C0E11, Niagara buildning, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1, Malmö, 13:00 (English)
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Available from: 2020-03-11 Created: 2020-03-08 Last updated: 2024-02-27Bibliographically approved

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