Beyond Co-purchase Relation: Evolution of Complementary Recommendations at Allegro
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arXiv:2609.05063v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When a customer adds a professional camera to their cart, should the system suggest a matching lens, a generic tripod, or another camera body? Complementary Product Recommendation is vital for comprehensive basket building, yet standard models often fail to distinguish between items that are merely bought together and those that truly work together. In this paper, we present AlleCompanion: a production-scale retrieval framework deployed at Allegro.com that transforms noisy behavioural signals into precise semantic compatibility. We mitigate the
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- arXiv:2609.05063v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When a customer adds a professional camera to their cart, should the system suggest a matching lens, a generic tripod, or another camera body?
- Complementary Product Recommendation is vital for comprehensive basket building, yet standard models often fail to distinguish between items that are merely bought together and those that truly work together.
- In this paper, we present AlleCompanion: a production-scale retrieval framework deployed at Allegro.com that transforms noisy behavioural signals into precise semantic compatibility.
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