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Product Recommendations — Complete Guide

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Product Recommendations

Foundations ✓Models ✓NLP & advancedMLOps

NLP & advanced · 3 — Recs, text, ONNX · ~10 min · Module 6: Recommendation Systems

What is this?

Product recommendations rank SKUs for cart, PDP, and email using interaction models plus business rules.

Why should you care?

AIPredict revenue lifts when checkout and home show relevant add-ons, not random catalog rows.

See it live — copy this example

Use a .NET console or Web API project with Microsoft.ML. Run dotnet run after pasting.

var engine = ml.Model.CreatePredictionEngine<UserProduct, ProductScore>(model);
var candidates = catalog.Where(p => !purchased.Contains(p.Id));
var ranked = candidates
    .Select(p => new { p.Id, Score = engine.Predict(new UserProduct { UserId = uid, ProductId = p.Id }).Score })
    .OrderByDescending(x => x.Score).Take(10);

What happened?

  • Score user–product pairs, filter already-owned, apply stock/ margin rules, then return top-N.
  • Follow the steps below — typing the code yourself is the fastest way to learn.

Practice next

  1. Load product MF model.
  2. Score candidate pairs.
  3. Filter purchased and OOS.
  4. Boost high-margin items +5%.
  5. Cap same-category duplicates.

Remember

Score → filter → rank. Business rules last. Top-N for UI slots.

AIPredict cart upsell

Checkout suggests accessories from MF scores.

Outcome: Attach rate up without spamming unrelated SKUs.

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ML.NET Tutorial
Course syllabus
Module 1: ML.NET Foundations
Module 2: Machine Learning Basics
Module 3: ML.NET Pipelines
Module 4: Classification Models
Module 5: Regression Models
Module 6: Recommendation Systems
Module 7: NLP with ML.NET
Module 8: Advanced ML.NET
Module 9: ASP.NET Core AI Integration
Module 10: MLOps & Cloud AI
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