Vectorized Representation of Commodities by Fusing Multisource Heterogeneous User-Generated Content with Multiple Models

Abstract

In the field of personalized recommendation, user-generated content (UGC) such as videos, images, and product comments are becoming increasingly important, since they implicitly represent the preferences of users. The vectorized representation of a commodity with multisource and heterogeneous UGC is the key for sufficiently mining the preference information to make a recommendation. Existing studies have mostly focused on using one type of UGC, e.g., images, to enrich the representation of a commodity, ignoring other contents. When more UGC are fused, complicated models with heavy computation cost are often designed. Motivated by this, we proposed a low-computational-power model for vectorizing multisource and recommendation UGC to achieve accurate commodity representations. In our method, video description keyframes, commodities’ attribute text, and user comments were selected as the model’s input. A multi-model fusion framework including feature extraction, vectorization, fusion, and classification based on MobileNet and multilayer perceptrons was developed. In this UGC fusion framework, feature correlations between images and product comments were extracted to design the loss function to improve the precision of vectorized representation. The proposed algorithm was applied to an actual representation of a commodity described by UGC, and the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm was demonstrated by the classification accuracy of the commodity represented.