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Main Authors: Acosta, María Florencia, Arancibia, Rodrigo García, Llop, Pamela, Lovatto, Mariel, Mansilla, Lucas
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26983
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author Acosta, María Florencia
Arancibia, Rodrigo García
Llop, Pamela
Lovatto, Mariel
Mansilla, Lucas
author_facet Acosta, María Florencia
Arancibia, Rodrigo García
Llop, Pamela
Lovatto, Mariel
Mansilla, Lucas
contents This paper presents a novel value-aware approach to product recommendation that simultaneously addresses the high dimensionality and sparsity of user-item data while explicitly incorporating the contribution of each product and user to overall sales revenue. The proposed framework encodes revenue contributions in the user-item matrix and computes customer similarity directly on this basis using suitable distance measures. This enables the segmentation of users according to the revenue-based similarity of their purchase baskets and supports recommendations aligned with profitability objectives. We compare conventional similarity metrics with a novel alternative tailored to high-dimensional contexts and propose three recommendation strategies based on revenue share, product popularity, and expected profit generation. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated through simulation experiments and a real-world application using the UCI Online Retail dataset.
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spellingShingle Value-Aware Product Recommendation by Customer Segmentation using a suitable High-Dimensional Similarity Measure
Acosta, María Florencia
Arancibia, Rodrigo García
Llop, Pamela
Lovatto, Mariel
Mansilla, Lucas
Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
This paper presents a novel value-aware approach to product recommendation that simultaneously addresses the high dimensionality and sparsity of user-item data while explicitly incorporating the contribution of each product and user to overall sales revenue. The proposed framework encodes revenue contributions in the user-item matrix and computes customer similarity directly on this basis using suitable distance measures. This enables the segmentation of users according to the revenue-based similarity of their purchase baskets and supports recommendations aligned with profitability objectives. We compare conventional similarity metrics with a novel alternative tailored to high-dimensional contexts and propose three recommendation strategies based on revenue share, product popularity, and expected profit generation. The effectiveness of the proposed method is validated through simulation experiments and a real-world application using the UCI Online Retail dataset.
title Value-Aware Product Recommendation by Customer Segmentation using a suitable High-Dimensional Similarity Measure
topic Information Retrieval
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.26983