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From the Lab to Production: A Case Study of Session-Based Recommendations in the Home-Improvement Domain

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In this paper (opens in a new tab), we discuss the approach and lessons learned from the process of identifying and deploying a successful session-based recommendation algorithm for a leading e-commerce application in the home-improvement domain.

Authors: Pigi Kouki, Ilias Fountalis, Nikolaos Vasiloglou, Xiquan Cui, Edo Liberty, Khalifeh Al Jadda. 2020.

In Proceedings of the 14th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys ‘20).

E-commerce applications rely heavily on session-based recommendation algorithms to improve the shopping experience of their customers. Recent progress in session-based recommendation algorithms shows great promise. However, translating that promise to real-world outcomes is a challenging task for several reasons, but mostly due to the large number and varying characteristics of the available models. In this paper, we discuss the approach and lessons learned from the process of identifying and deploying a successful session-based recommendation algorithm for a leading e-commerce application in the home-improvement domain. To this end, we initially evaluate fourteen session-based recommendation algorithms in an offline setting using eight different popular evaluation metrics on three datasets.

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