Trending items
trending
recommendation model is used to highlight the trending (or in other workds, most popular) items in your application. But it's not just about sorting items by popularity!Metarank can:
- combine multiple types of interactions: you can mix clicks, likes and purchases with different weights.
- time decay: clicks made yesterday are much more important than the clicks from the last months.
- multiple configurations: trending over the last week, and bestsellers over the last year.
A separate block in the
models
section:models:
yolo-trending:
type: trending
weights:
- interaction: click
decay: 0.8 # optional, default 1.0 - no decay
weight: 1.0 # optional, default 1.0
window: 30d # optional, default 30 days
- interaction: like
decay: 0.9
weight: 1.5
window: 60d
- interaction: purchase
decay: 0.95
weight: 3.0
The config above defines a trending model, accessible over the
/recommend/yolo-trending
API endpoint:- the final item score combines click, like and purchase events
- purchase has 3x more weight than click, like has 1.5x more weight than click
- purchase has less agressive time decay
- only the last 30 days of data are used for clicks and purchases, but 60 days are used for likes
The final score used to sort the items is defined by the following formula:
score = count * weight * decay ^ days_diff(now, timestamp)
When multiple interaction types are defined, per-type scores are added together to get the final score.
Time decay configuration allows a granular control over the decaying. Here's a click importance is weighted for different
decay
values:
decay with different options
We recommend setting decay:
- within a range of 0.8-0.95 for 1-month periods.
- within a range of 0.95-0.99 for larger periods.
Last modified 7mo ago