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How to Grow a (Product) Tree: Personalized Category Suggestions for eCommerce Type-Ahead

26 May 2020WS 2020 7arXiv:2005.12781archive 2025-07-28

Jacopo Tagliabue, Bingqing Yu, Marie Beaulieu

In an attempt to balance precision and recall in the search page, leading digital shops have been effectively nudging users into select category facets as early as in the type-ahead suggestions. In this work, we present SessionPath, a novel neural network model that improves facet suggestions on two counts: first, the model is able to leverage session embeddings to provide scalable personalization; second, SessionPath predicts facets by explicitly producing a probability distribution at each node in the taxonomy path. We benchmark SessionPath on two partnering shops against count-based and neural models, and show how business requirements and model behavior can be combined in a principled way.

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