ANALYZING FUSION MECHANISMS IN MULTI-BEHAVIOR RECOMMENDATION SYSTEMS

Hien Le Thi Hanh * ✉ , Tuong Nguyen Lan ✉ , Khoa Ho Chan ✉ , Thanh Ta Minh ✉ và Nghe Nguyen Thai ✉

Abstract

Analysis of fusion mechanisms in multi-behavior recommendation on the Taobao dataset for predicting purchase behavior under sparse and imbalanced conditions. Four fusion strategies are examined: early fusion (BPR-MF with Weighted Sum), late fusion (NeuMF), intermediate fusion (MBGCN), and model-level fusion (PLE). Experimental results show that PLE achieved the highest Recall and Precision, while MBGCN achieved the highest NDCG, reflecting its ability to improve ranking quality at the top positions. Overall, simultaneously leveraging multiple auxiliary user behaviors such as viewing, liking, and adding to cart enhances the effectiveness of predicting purchase behavior in a sparse and unbalanced data environment.

Keywords: Recommender systems, multi-behavior, e-commerce, fusion mechanisms, NeuMF

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