Staples, Inc.

Ryan Applegate

Karthik Kumara

Timothy Wee

Majid Hosseini

The disclosure relates in some cases to a technology for selecting one or more promotions to be presented to online customers using Bayesian bandits and affinity-based dynamic user clustering In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method determines a set of offers is determined, and computes affinity scores measuring affinities of users to items included in the offers. The method builds an affinity score distribution for the offers and identifies clusters of affinity scores for the offers using the corresponding affinity score distribution.

Realtime feedback using affinity-based dynamic user clustering

A computer-implemented method and system are described for learning a vector representation for unique identification codes. An example method may include generating a unique identification code list using one or more virtual interaction contexts, the unique identification code list being a list of unique identification codes, selecting a target unique identification code in the unique identification code list, and determining, from the unique identification code list, an input set of unique identification codes using the target unique identification code, the input set including the target unique identification code and one or more context unique identification codes. Some implementations may further include inputting the input set of unique identification codes into a semantic neural network model, the semantic neural network model including one or more weight matrices, and modifying the one or more weight matrices using the input set of unique identification codes.

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Ryan Applegate