Analyzing Consumer-Product Graphs: Empirical Findings and Applications in Recommender Systems
Huang, Zan1; Zeng, Daniel2; Chen, Hsinchun2
发表期刊Management Science
2007
卷号53期号:7页码:1146-1164
文章类型期刊论文
摘要

W
e apply random graph modeling methodology to analyze bipartite consumer-product graphs that repre-
sent sales transactions to better understand consumer purchase behavior in e-commerce settings. Based
on two real-world e-commerce data sets, we found that such graphs demonstrate topological features that
deviate significantly from theoretical predictions based on standard random graph models. In particular, we
observed consistently larger-than-expected average path lengths and a greater-than-expected tendency to clus-
ter. Such deviations suggest that the consumers’ product choices are not random even with the consumer and
product attributes hidden. Our findings provide justification for a large family of collaborative filtering-based
recommendation algorithms that make product recommendations based only on previous sales transactions. By
analyzing the simulated consumer-product graphs generated by models that embed two representative recom-
mendation algorithms, we found that these recommendation algorithm-induced graphs generally provided a
better match with the real-world consumer-product graphs than purely random graphs. However, consistent
deviations in topological features remained. These findings motivated the development of a new recommenda-
tion algorithm based on graph partitioning, which aims to achieve high clustering coefficients similar to those
observed in the real-world e-commerce data sets. We show empirically that this algorithm significantly outper-
forms representative collaborative filtering algorithms in situations where the observed clustering coefficients
of the consumer-product graphs are sufficiently larger than can be accounted for by these standard algorithms.

关键词Random Graph Theory Consumer-purchase Behavior Topological Features Recommender Systems Collaborative Filtering
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条目标识符http://ir.ia.ac.cn/handle/173211/23211
专题多模态人工智能系统全国重点实验室_互联网大数据与信息安全
作者单位1.Pennsylvania State University
2.The University of Arizona
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Huang, Zan,Zeng, Daniel,Chen, Hsinchun. Analyzing Consumer-Product Graphs: Empirical Findings and Applications in Recommender Systems[J]. Management Science,2007,53(7):1146-1164.
APA Huang, Zan,Zeng, Daniel,&Chen, Hsinchun.(2007).Analyzing Consumer-Product Graphs: Empirical Findings and Applications in Recommender Systems.Management Science,53(7),1146-1164.
MLA Huang, Zan,et al."Analyzing Consumer-Product Graphs: Empirical Findings and Applications in Recommender Systems".Management Science 53.7(2007):1146-1164.
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