Machine learning model trained to predict user interactions with items for inventory assortment

Abstract

An inventory interaction model predicts user interactions with items to be included in an item assortment in a warehouse. The item is described with features that include the co-located items and the respective user interactions, so that the item interactions for the evaluated item incorporate item-item effects in its predictions. To train the model effectively in the absence of prior interaction data for an item, training examples are generated from existing item and user interaction data of co-located items by selecting a portion of the items for the examples and including co-located item data, labeling the training example output with item interactions for the item. The trained model is then applied for an item assortment by describing co-located item features of the item assortment in evaluating candidate items.