Complementary Recommendation in E-commerce: Definition, Approaches, and Future Directions

arXiv:2403.16135v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: In recent years, complementary recommendation has received extensive attention in the e-commerce domain. In this paper, we comprehensively summarize and compare 34 representative studies conducted between 2009 and 2024. Firstly, we compare the data and methods used for modeling complementary relationships between products, including simple complementarity and more complex scenarios such as asymmetric complementarity, the coexistence of substitution and complementarity relationships between products, and varying degrees of complementarity between different pairs of products. Next, we …

abstract arxiv attention commerce cs.ai cs.ir cs.lg data definition domain e-commerce future modeling paper products recommendation relationships simple studies type