Improving user-merchant propensity modeling using neural collaborative filtering and wide and deep models on Spark BigDL at scale
November 24, 2019
Sergey Ermolin and Suqiang Song demonstrate how to use Spark BigDL wide and deep and neural collaborative filtering (NCF) algorithms to predict a users probability of shopping at a particular offer merchant during a campaign period. Along the way, they compare the deep learning results with those obtained by MLlibs alternating least squares (ALS) approach.