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mbmba t1_izetueh wrote

Amazon pretty much offers their recommendation engine throughAmazon Personalize. Instead, If you want build one from scratch, I strongly recommend you read up the many white papers that have been written on Amazon’s item-to-item recommendation engine. It’s pretty straightforward to implement. Here’s a link to one of them.. What I have seen is that the best performing algorithms are the simple ones that are based on “viewed-also-viewed” or “bought-also-bought”. Unless you are in the research space, stay away from algorithms that claim enhancements through “Deep Learning” or “NLP”. These fancy algorithms seldom lead to any real improvement in recommendation performance.

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anymorenevermore t1_izf91lh wrote

But, Amazon recommendations are awful

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CodeManiaac t1_izipz7o wrote

... u kidding right?

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anymorenevermore t1_izisavi wrote

have you bought anything there?

Amazon will recommend the exact same coffee-maker you bought 1 week before, together with a bunch of irrelevant products

Amazon is a broken bazaar, they have been lucky with the server stuff, and even there I would say it is tic toc time for them

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