Open Access

DEEP LEARNING FOR E‑COMMERCE RECOMMENDATIONS: CAPTURING LONG- AND SHORT-TERM USER PREFERENCES WITH CNN-BASED REPRESENTATION LEARNING

4 Management Information Systems University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Abstract

Recommender systems are crucial in e-commerce for matching users with products of interest. This paper proposes a deep learning approach that leverages representation learning to capture complex patterns in user behavior, combining long-term preferences with short-term, session-based interests. We develop a neural network model that integrates Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for sequential pattern extraction with user embedding vectors representing historical preferences. Experiments are conducted on open e-commerce datasets with implicit (click/view) and explicit (purchase) feedback. The proposed model outperforms baseline recommendation techniques, achieving higher Hit Rate (HR@10) and Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (NDCG@10). The results demonstrate that blending users’ stable long-term tastes with their recent short-term actions leads to more accurate recommendations. This work reinforces deep learning as a powerful tool for representation learning in recommender systems, and our findings offer insights into modeling nuanced user behaviors for intelligent data-driven recommendations in online retail.

Keywords

References

📄 Gheewala, S., Xu, S., & Yeom, S. (2025). In-depth survey: deep learning in recommender systems—exploring prediction and ranking models, datasets, feature analysis, and emerging trends. Neural Computing and Applications, 37(10), 10875–10947.
📄 Tang, J., & Wang, K. (2018). Personalized top-n sequential recommendation via convolutional sequence embedding. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) (pp. 565–573).
📄 Tran, Q., Tran, L., Chu, L. H., Ngo, L. V., & Than, K. (2021). From implicit to explicit feedback: A deep neural network for modeling sequential behaviours and long-short term preferences of online users. arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.12325.
📄 Tran, Q., Tran, L., Chu, L. H., Ngo, L. V., & Than, K. (2022). A deep neural network for modeling sequential behaviors and long-short term preferences of online users. Applied Soft Computing, 123, 108957.
📄 Hidasi, B., Karatzoglou, A., Baltrunas, L., & Tikk, D. (2016). Session-based recommendations with recurrent neural networks. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
📄 He, X., Liao, L., Zhang, H., Nie, L., Hu, X., & Chua, T. (2017). Neural collaborative filtering. In Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW) (pp. 173–182).
📄 Xu, K., Zhou, H., Zheng, H., Zhu, M., & Xin, Q. (2024). Intelligent classification and personalized recommendation of E-commerce products based on machine learning. Applied and Computational Engineering, 64, 147–153.

Similar Articles

1-10 of 25

You may also start an advanced similarity search for this article.