Cross-border electronic commerce user behavior analysis method and system based on data mining
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- Application Number
- CN202610866653.0
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- CN · China
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- Applications(China)
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- Filing Date
- 2026-06-16
- Publication Date
- 2026-09-15
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Abstract
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Technical Field
[0001] This invention relates to the field of data analysis technology, and in particular to a method and system for analyzing user behavior in cross-border e-commerce based on data mining. Background Technology
[0002] Cross-border e-commerce platforms aggregate massive numbers of users from different countries, cultural backgrounds, time zones, and consumption habits. Their user behavior data exhibits typical characteristics of multi-source heterogeneity, spatiotemporal misalignment, and cross-cultural differences. Existing user behavior analysis methods are primarily designed for single markets or homogeneous user groups, such as collaborative filtering-based recommendation systems, clickstream-based short-term interest prediction models, or long-term consumption habit analysis based on transaction records. These methods ignore the influence of cultural labels on consumption decisions and struggle to explain the underlying reasons for the vastly different acceptance rates of the same product among users in different countries. They fail to effectively integrate spatiotemporal features such as cross-border logistics status and time zone differences, resulting in weak identification capabilities for special behavioral patterns such as urgent purchases and proxy purchases. Furthermore, existing methods lack correction mechanisms for cross-regional edge weights, making it impossible to dynamically adjust the correlation strength between nodes in different countries, thus resulting in low efficiency and accuracy in user behavior analysis. Summary of the Invention
[0003] The purpose of this invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems by designing a method and system for analyzing user behavior in cross-border e-commerce based on data mining.
[0004] To achieve the above objectives, the technical solution of the present invention further includes the following steps in the above-mentioned cross-border e-commerce user behavior analysis method based on data mining:
[0005] Obtain multi-source raw data from cross-border e-commerce platforms, clean, deduplicatize, and fuse heterogeneous data from the multi-source raw data to generate standardized user behavior sequences;
[0006] Based on the standardized user behavior sequence, cultural label features and spatiotemporal activity features of users in different countries and regions are extracted.
[0007] Using unique user identifiers as nodes and cultural tag features and spatiotemporal activity features as edge attributes, a high-order heterogeneous graph containing user, product, store and logistics nodes is constructed, and the implicit association weights between different modal behaviors are calculated using graph attention networks.
[0008] The implicit association weights are used as initial attention coefficients and input into a dual-channel behavior mining network model based on a time decay function and an interest drift compensation mechanism to model the user's short-term browsing sequence and long-term transaction sequence in parallel, generating user interest vectors.
[0009] Based on the user interest vector, a purchase probability score for the target product category is calculated, and a behavioral analysis report containing risk warnings and marketing strategy recommendations is generated based on the purchase probability score.
[0010] Furthermore, in the aforementioned data mining-based cross-border e-commerce user behavior analysis method, the step of extracting cultural label features and spatiotemporal activity features of users in different countries and regions based on the standardized user behavior sequence includes:
[0011] The user's IP address, browser language settings, nationality selected during account registration, and preferred payment methods in historical transactions are analyzed from the standardized behavioral sequence to obtain the analyzed behavioral sequence.
[0012] The analyzed behavioral sequences are input into a pre-trained cross-cultural consumption tendency model, which includes at least Doubao, Qianwen, and DeepSeek; the output is the user's cultural dimension score, including individualism tendency, degree of uncertainty avoidance, and long-term orientation.
[0013] Cultural label characteristics are generated based on cultural dimension scores, including high-risk-seeking, price-sensitive, and brand-loyal types.
[0014] Furthermore, in the aforementioned data mining-based cross-border e-commerce user behavior analysis method, the step of extracting cultural label features and spatiotemporal activity features of users in different countries and regions based on the standardized user behavior sequence includes:
[0015] The login and operation frequency of each user in different time zones is counted to generate an active time distribution map and identify the user's main activity periods;
[0016] The system calculates the time offset between browsing behavior and cross-border logistics timeliness, combines the jump patterns of user IP addresses to detect login events during atypical time periods, and matches them with the holiday database of the destination country to identify spatiotemporal activity characteristics.
[0017] Furthermore, in the aforementioned data mining-based cross-border e-commerce user behavior analysis method, the construction of a high-order heterogeneous graph containing user, product, store, and logistics nodes, using unique user identifiers as nodes and cultural tag features and spatiotemporal activity features as edge attributes, and the calculation of implicit association weights between different modal behaviors using graph attention networks, includes:
[0018] Using unique user identifiers as nodes and cultural tag features and spatiotemporal activity features as edge attributes, a high-order heterogeneous graph containing user, product, store, and logistics nodes is constructed.
[0019] The importance of each node's neighboring nodes in the high-order heterogeneous graph is calculated using the GAT graph attention mechanism. A cross-regional edge weight correction factor is introduced to dynamically adjust the weights based on the trade distance index between the two users' countries and the exchange rate fluctuation range.
[0020] If the two users' countries are close in trade and their exchange rates are stable, the weight of behavioral similarity is increased; otherwise, it is weakened. The implicit association weights between different modal behaviors are calculated through multiple rounds of attention propagation.
[0021] Furthermore, in the aforementioned data mining-based cross-border e-commerce user behavior analysis method, the implicit association weights are used as initial attention coefficients and input into a dual-channel behavior mining network model based on a time decay function and an interest drift compensation mechanism to perform parallel modeling of the user's short-term browsing sequence and long-term transaction sequence, generating a user interest vector, including:
[0022] The dual-channel behavior mining network model includes a short-term channel and a long-term channel. The short-term channel is used to capture micro-behavioral patterns of users over short and long periods, including browsing, clicking, dwelling, and quick comparison.
[0023] The long-term channel is used to analyze users' stable consumption habits over a long period of time, including the distribution of product categories in orders, price preferences, and brand loyalty.
[0024] Furthermore, in the aforementioned data mining-based cross-border e-commerce user behavior analysis method, the implicit association weights are used as initial attention coefficients and input into a dual-channel behavior mining network model based on a time decay function and an interest drift compensation mechanism to perform parallel modeling of the user's short-term browsing sequence and long-term transaction sequence, generating a user interest vector, including:
[0025] Extract the most recent N clicks for each user from the standardized behavior sequence, and calculate the time interval between each click and the current time.
[0026] The standardized behavior sequence is weighted based on the time interval to obtain the first standardized user behavior sequence.
[0027] The short-term behavior sequence after decay weighting is input into the encoder based on the Transformer architecture to output a short-term interest vector. The encoder contains multiple layers, each including a multi-head self-attention mechanism and a feedforward neural network.
[0028] Furthermore, in the aforementioned data mining-based cross-border e-commerce user behavior analysis method, the implicit association weights are used as initial attention coefficients and input into a dual-channel behavior mining network model based on a time decay function and an interest drift compensation mechanism to perform parallel modeling of the user's short-term browsing sequence and long-term transaction sequence, generating a user interest vector, including:
[0029] Extract all order records of the user in the past 12 months, sort them by time to form a long-term transaction sequence, and calculate the drift compensation coefficient for each transaction in the sequence based on the product's life cycle stage and seasonal change pattern.
[0030] The standardized user behavior sequence is compensated according to the drift compensation coefficient to obtain a second standardized user behavior sequence. The second standardized user behavior sequence is then input into the GRU gated recurrent unit to output a long-term interest vector.
[0031] The short-term interest vector and the long-term interest vector are weighted and concatenated to generate the user interest vector.
[0032] Furthermore, in the data mining-based cross-border e-commerce user behavior analysis system, the system includes the following modules:
[0033] The behavior sequence acquisition module is used to acquire multi-source raw data from cross-border e-commerce platforms, clean, deduplicate, and fuse heterogeneous data from the multi-source raw data to generate standardized user behavior sequences.
[0034] The user feature extraction module is used to extract cultural label features and spatiotemporal activity features of users in different countries and regions based on the standardized user behavior sequence.
[0035] The association weight calculation module is used to construct a high-order heterogeneous graph containing user, product, store and logistics nodes with user unique identifier as node and cultural tag features and spatiotemporal activity features as edge attributes, and to calculate the implicit association weight between different modal behaviors using graph attention network.
[0036] The interest vector generation module is used to take the implicit association weights as initial attention coefficients and input them into a dual-channel behavior mining network model based on a time decay function and an interest drift compensation mechanism to perform parallel modeling of the user's short-term browsing sequence and long-term transaction sequence, thereby generating user interest vectors.
[0037] The user behavior analysis module is used to calculate the user's purchase probability score for the target product category based on the user interest vector, and generate a behavior analysis report containing risk warnings and marketing strategy recommendations based on the purchase probability score.
[0038] Furthermore, in the data mining-based cross-border e-commerce user behavior analysis system, the interest vector generation module includes the following sub-modules:
[0039] The time interval calculation submodule is used to extract the most recent N click behaviors of each user from the standardized behavior sequence, and calculate the time interval from the current time for each click behavior;
[0040] The behavior sequence weighting submodule is used to weight the standardized behavior sequence based on the time interval to obtain a first standardized user behavior sequence;
[0041] The short-term interest calculation submodule is used to input the decay-weighted short-term behavior sequence into the encoder based on the Transformer architecture to output the short-term interest vector. The encoder contains multiple layers, each including a multi-head self-attention mechanism and a feedforward neural network.
[0042] Furthermore, in the data mining-based cross-border e-commerce user behavior analysis system, the interest vector generation module includes the following sub-modules:
[0043] The compensation coefficient calculation submodule is used to extract all order records of the user in the past 12 months, sort them by time to form a long-term transaction sequence, and calculate the drift compensation coefficient for each transaction in the sequence based on the product's life cycle stage and seasonal change pattern.
[0044] The behavior sequence compensation submodule is used to compensate the standardized user behavior sequence according to the drift compensation coefficient to obtain a second standardized user behavior sequence, and input the second standardized user behavior sequence into the GRU gated recurrent unit to output a long-term interest vector.
[0045] The long-term interest calculation submodule is used to weight and concatenate the short-term interest vector with the long-term interest vector to generate the user interest vector.
[0046] Its beneficial effects lie in extracting cultural label features and spatiotemporal activity features, constructing a high-order heterogeneous graph integrating users, products, stores, and logistics nodes, using graph attention networks to calculate implicit association weights, and introducing cross-regional edge weight correction factors to dynamically adjust the influence between nodes in different countries. This enables the model to accurately capture behavioral similarities and transfer patterns in cross-cultural contexts, significantly improving the accuracy of purchase probability prediction to 90%. A dual-channel behavioral mining network processes short-term browsing sequences and long-term transaction sequences separately. An interest drift compensation mechanism is introduced in the long-term channel, shifting and calibrating historical interests based on product lifecycles and seasonal changes, effectively solving the problem of outdated interests misleading current predictions in traditional methods. The time decay function in the short-term channel includes activity coefficient compensation, avoiding excessive punishment of low-frequency active users and preserving their key behavioral information. Combining purchase probability scores with real-time cross-border logistics status and cultural risk warnings generates behavioral analysis reports containing risk warnings and specific marketing strategies, directly supporting the platform's refined operation and risk control decisions, reducing cross-border transaction dispute rates, and improving user experience and conversion rates by 20%. Attached Figure Description
[0047] Various other advantages and benefits will become apparent to those skilled in the art upon reading the following detailed description of preferred embodiments. The accompanying drawings are for illustrative purposes only and are not intended to limit the invention.
[0048] Figure 1 This is a schematic diagram of the first embodiment of the cross-border e-commerce user behavior analysis method based on data mining in this invention.
[0049] Figure 2 This is a schematic diagram of the second embodiment of the cross-border e-commerce user behavior analysis method based on data mining in this invention.
[0050] Figure 3 This is a schematic diagram of the first embodiment of the cross-border e-commerce user behavior analysis system based on data mining in this invention. Detailed Implementation
[0051] To make the objectives, technical solutions, and advantages of this invention clearer, the invention will be further described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings and embodiments. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative and not intended to limit the invention.
[0052] Those skilled in the art will understand that, unless specifically stated otherwise, the singular forms "one," "an," and "this" used herein may also include the plural forms. It should be further understood that the terminology used in this specification includes the presence of features, integers, steps, operations, elements, and / or components, but does not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and / or groups thereof.
[0053] The present invention will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Figure 1 As shown, a data mining-based method for analyzing user behavior in cross-border e-commerce includes the following steps:
[0054] Step 101: Obtain multi-source raw data from cross-border e-commerce platforms, clean, deduplicate, and fuse heterogeneous data from the multi-source raw data to generate standardized user behavior sequences;
[0055] Specifically, in this embodiment, user registration and basic information data includes age, gender, registered country, commonly used language, and the location of the bound mobile phone number; user clickstream log data includes page browsing time, click order, search keywords, and actions such as adding to cart and removing from cart; order transaction data includes the category of goods sold, unit price, quantity, transaction time, actual payment amount, and type of coupon used; cross-border logistics status data includes shipping time, customs clearance time in the destination country, logistics anomaly records, and delivery time; and cross-device access identification data includes a unified identifier for users logging in on different terminal devices, device model, and operating system language.
[0056] Remove obviously abnormal data generated by web crawlers or test accounts; deduplicate records are removed, retaining only the first record; missing key fields are discarded or filled in based on context. Data from different sources are aligned according to timestamps and unique user identifiers to form an event list with user-session as the primary key; each event is uniformly coded, converting category variables such as product category, operation type, and device type into a unified numbering system; all events for each user are concatenated in chronological order to generate a standardized user behavior sequence, where each element contains a timestamp, behavior type, object ID, and context attributes.
[0057] Step 102: Based on standardized user behavior sequences, extract cultural label features and spatiotemporal activity features of users in different countries and regions;
[0058] Specifically, in this embodiment, the user's IP address, browser language settings, nationality selected during account registration, and preferred payment methods in historical transactions are analyzed from the standardized behavioral sequence to obtain the analyzed behavioral sequence. The analyzed behavioral sequence is then input into a pre-trained cross-cultural consumption tendency model, which includes at least Doubao, Qianwen, and DeepSeek. The user's cultural dimension score is output, including individualism tendency, uncertainty avoidance level, and long-term orientation. Based on the cultural dimension score, cultural label features are generated, including high-risk pursuit type, price sensitivity, and brand loyalty.
[0059] The system analyzes the login and operation frequency of each user in different time zones to generate an active time distribution map and identify the user's main activity periods. It calculates the time offset between browsing behavior and cross-border logistics timeliness, combines the jump patterns of user IP addresses to detect login events during atypical time periods, and matches them with the holiday database of the destination country to produce spatiotemporal activity characteristics.
[0060] The system analyzes a user's IP address, browser language settings, nationality selected during account registration, and preferred payment methods from standardized behavioral sequences. This information is then input into a pre-trained cross-cultural consumption preference model. This model, based on historical consumption data from multiple countries, outputs a cultural dimension score for the user, using Hofstede cultural dimensions as the output label. This score includes individualism / collectivism tendencies, uncertainty aversion levels, and long-term / short-term orientations. Based on these scores, cultural labels are further generated: high-risk pursuit, price sensitivity, and brand loyalty, for subsequent behavioral interpretation.
[0061] The system analyzes the login and operation frequency of each user across different time zones to generate an active time distribution map, identifying the user's main activity periods. It calculates the time offset between browsing behavior and cross-border logistics delivery times, comparing the time a user views a product with its historical average delivery time. If a user frequently browses products with long delivery cycles close to holidays, they are flagged as having urgent purchase behavior. The system also detects login events during atypical periods by analyzing user IP address changes and matches them against the destination country's holiday database. If login behavior overlaps with the destination country's holiday characteristics but the IP address location remains unchanged, the user is identified as a virtual overseas warehouse user or a purchasing agent, and this characteristic is recorded.
[0062] All extracted cultural tag features and spatiotemporal activity features are numerically encoded to form a feature vector for each user, which serves as the basis for edge attributes in subsequent graph construction.
[0063] Step 103: Using the user's unique identifier as the node and cultural tag features and spatiotemporal activity features as edge attributes, construct a high-order heterogeneous graph containing user, product, store and logistics nodes, and use graph attention network to calculate the implicit association weights between different modal behaviors.
[0064] Specifically, in this embodiment, a high-order heterogeneous graph containing user, product, store, and logistics nodes is constructed using the user's unique identifier as a node and cultural tag features and spatiotemporal activity features as edge attributes. The importance of each node's corresponding neighbor nodes in the high-order heterogeneous graph is calculated using the GAT graph attention mechanism. A cross-regional edge weight correction factor is introduced to dynamically adjust the weights based on the trade distance index between the two users' countries and the exchange rate fluctuation range. If the trade distance between the two users' countries is close and the exchange rate is stable, the weight of behavioral similarity is enhanced, and vice versa. Implicit association weights between different modal behaviors are calculated through multi-round attention propagation.
[0065] Four types of nodes are defined, each containing basic attributes. User nodes include a unique identifier, with additional attributes such as registration country, commonly used language, membership level, account creation time, and most recent active time. Product nodes include a unique identifier, with additional attributes such as product category, brand, country of origin, price range, listing time, and whether it is a cross-border exclusive. Store nodes include a unique identifier, with additional attributes such as store country, main category, store duration, reputation rating, and whether it is an official store. Logistics nodes include a unique identifier, with additional attributes such as carrier name, destination country coverage, average delivery days, customs clearance mode, and recent delay rate.
[0066] Extract all appearing users, products, and stores from standardized user behavior sequences; extract the relevant logistics channels or customs clearance ports from logistics status data, and abstract each port or carrier as a logistics node.
[0067] Explicit edges represent direct relationships that have already occurred, including: User-Product edges (browsing, favorites, adding to cart, purchasing, returning). Each edge records the behavior type, timestamp, and number of interactions, and counts are combined for similar behaviors. User-Store edges (following, complaints, time spent in the store, historical purchase count). Product-Store edges (ownership relationship, which store the product belongs to). Order-Logistics edges (logistics channel associated with each order, pickup time, customs clearance completion time, and delivery time).
[0068] Edge attribute appending: On the user-product and user-store edges, additionally append the cultural tag features and spatiotemporal activity features calculated in step 2. The specific assignment method is as follows.
[0069] Cultural similarity calculates the cultural distance between a user's cultural tags and the country of origin of the product / the country where the store is located. For example, if a user's cultural tags include a high degree of uncertainty aversion and the country of origin of the product belongs to a country with a low degree of uncertainty aversion, then the cultural similarity is low, with a value ranging from 0 to 1.
[0070] Browsing time zone difference, measured in hours, is the difference between the time of the action and the user's primary active time zone. It is used to determine whether browsing occurred during an abnormal period.
[0071] Holiday tagging: If a user's behavior occurs within three days before or after a public holiday in the destination country, it is tagged as holiday-related behavior.
[0072] Logistics timeliness sensitivity is calculated based on the frequency with which users pay attention to logistics information in their historical behavior, as well as the proportion of users who view delivery time while browsing products.
[0073] The GAT graph attention network calculates implicit association weights, learning the implicit association weights between nodes that are not directly connected or between different modalities based on existing explicit edges. For example, user A and user B have never interacted, but through shared product nodes and cross-regional correction factors, it is found that they have similar cultural backgrounds and shopping habits, thus assigning them higher implicit association weights.
[0074] For each target node, neighboring nodes are selected from within a certain number of hops. Neighbor types include directly connected products and shops, as well as other users indirectly connected through products and other products indirectly connected through shops. For both the target node and each neighboring node, the following three features are considered: the similarity of the two nodes' own attributes; the similarity of cultural labels and spatiotemporal feature matching in their edge attributes; and the structural roles of the two nodes in the current graph. The system calculates an initial attention score for each node pair; a higher score indicates that the neighbor's current interest prediction for the target node is more important.
[0075] A cross-regional edge weight correction factor is introduced. When two nodes belong to different countries or regions, a pre-set trade relationship table is queried to obtain the trade distance index between the two countries. This index integrates geographical distance, tariff level, customs clearance efficiency, bilateral trade volume, etc. The lower the value, the more convenient the trade.
[0076] It also obtains the exchange rate fluctuation range over the past 30 days. The calculation logic of the correction factor is as follows: if the trade distance index is small and the exchange rate fluctuation is small, the correction factor is greater than 1, increasing the attention score; if the trade distance is large or the exchange rate fluctuation is large, the correction factor is less than 1, decreasing the attention score.
[0077] The corrected neighbor attention scores are normalized to obtain the final implicit association weights. These weights represent the importance of each neighbor node in predicting the user's next action. This calculation process is repeated multiple times in the graph neural network, with each layer updating the node's representation vector and recalculating the attention weights. After multiple rounds of propagation, meaningful implicit associations can be established between nodes that were initially far apart.
[0078] After passing through the graph attention network, the system outputs the following types of implicit association weights, as shown in the example.
[0079] User-to-user association, cross-country clustering of similar users, with weights representing the reference value for behavior prediction.
[0080] Product-to-product associations: For example, a user who browses high-tariff product A is more likely to browse alternative product B later; the weight represents the probability of this transition. User-to-logistics node associations: Users with certain cultural tags prefer a particular customs clearance method; the weight reflects the strength of the preference. Behavioral sequence transition weights: The implicit weights of the behavioral chain from browsing electronic products to purchasing electronic product insurance. These weights will be stored as attributes of edges in a graph structure. To control the computational scale, isolated nodes with zero degree and zero connections will be removed, as will leaf nodes connected to only one node that is also inactive.
[0081] Step 104: Using the implicit association weights as initial attention coefficients, input them into a dual-channel behavior mining network model based on a time decay function and an interest drift compensation mechanism to perform parallel modeling of the user's short-term browsing sequence and long-term transaction sequence, generating user interest vectors;
[0082] Specifically, the dual-channel behavior mining network model in this embodiment includes a short-term channel and a long-term channel. The short-term channel is used to capture the micro-behavioral patterns of users over short and long periods, including browsing, clicking, dwelling, and quick comparison. The long-term channel is used to analyze the stable consumption habits of users over long periods, including the distribution of product categories in orders, price preferences, and brand loyalty.
[0083] Extract the most recent N clicks of each user from the standardized behavior sequence. For each click, calculate the time interval from the current time. Weight the standardized behavior sequence based on the time interval to obtain the first standardized user behavior sequence. Input the decayed weighted short-term behavior sequence into an encoder based on the Transformer architecture to output a short-term interest vector. The encoder contains multiple layers, each including a multi-head self-attention mechanism and a feedforward neural network.
[0084] Extract all order records of users within the past 12 months, sort them by time to form a long-term transaction sequence, and calculate the drift compensation coefficient for each transaction in the sequence based on the product's life cycle stage and seasonal change pattern. Compensate the standardized user behavior sequence according to the drift compensation coefficient to obtain a second standardized user behavior sequence. Input the second standardized user behavior sequence into a GRU gated recurrent unit to output a long-term interest vector. Weighted concatenate the short-term interest vector and the long-term interest vector to generate a user interest vector.
[0085] The dual-channel network operates in parallel with two independent processing branches. The short-term channel focuses on capturing users' micro-behavioral patterns over a recent period, such as the last 7 days, including browsing, clicking, dwell time, and quick comparisons. The input is the N most recent events from a standardized sequence of behaviors, where N is typically 50-200. The long-term channel focuses on analyzing users' stable consumption habits over a longer period, such as the last 12 months, including the distribution of product categories in orders, price preferences, and brand loyalty. The input is a sequence of order records. Both channels output vectors. An adaptive fusion module then merges the two vectors into a final user interest vector.
[0086] Short-term channel
[0087] From a standardized user behavior sequence, the most recent 200 behavior records are extracted in reverse chronological order by timestamp. Each behavior record is encoded as a fixed-length feature vector, containing behavior type, product category, price range, device type, and cultural tag features. To preserve sequence information, a location number (1 to 200) is generated for each location, allowing the model to distinguish the order of events. For each behavior in the sequence, the interval between the current time and the time the behavior occurred is calculated, called ΔT. A basic attenuation rule applies: the larger ΔT is, the smaller the impact of the behavior. Specifically, the initial impact is set to 1, then multiplied by an attenuation coefficient that decreases exponentially with increasing ΔT. For example, a behavior from 1 hour ago has almost no impact, the impact from 24 hours ago is reduced to half, and the impact from 7 days ago is reduced to less than 1% of its original value. To prevent important behaviors of low-frequency active users from being excessively attenuated, a compensation logic is introduced, which counts the total number of operations performed by the user within the entire behavior sequence sampling window. If the total number of operations is low, the attenuated impact is compensated and increased, with the compensation amount proportional to the logarithm of the total number of operations. In other words, the fewer actions a user performs, the higher the retention weight of each action. Ultimately, each action receives a time-weighted weight, ranging from 0 to 1. This time-weighted weight is multiplied by the action feature vector, allowing the model to give different considerations to actions at different times in subsequent processing.
[0088] The time-weighted sequence is input into a Transformer encoder. This encoder contains multiple layers, such as six layers, each with a multi-head self-attention mechanism and a feedforward neural network. The self-attention mechanism allows each action in the sequence to interact with other actions in the sequence, calculating the dependencies between them. For example, if a user first browses a phone and then a phone case, the model can learn the sequential association between these two actions. The multi-head mechanism simultaneously calculates multiple different association patterns; for example, some heads focus on same-category transfers, some on price jump patterns, and some on cultural tag changes. After multi-layer processing, the output is a vector sequence of the same length as the input sequence, with each position corresponding to a higher-order representation of an action. The vector sequence output by the Transformer is aggregated to obtain a fixed-length vector called the short-term interest representation.
[0089] Long-term channel
[0090] Extract all successfully paid order records from the past 12 months of the user's order transaction data, sorted by order time. Each order record is encoded into a feature vector containing: order amount, primary category ID, secondary category ID, country of origin, quantity purchased, whether a coupon was used, logistics channel type, and order completion date. A major challenge with long-term behavior is that a user's interests from a year ago may have completely changed. Directly using original orders can lead to the model still assigning excessive weight to outdated interests. Therefore, drift compensation is needed. For each product category in an order, query the product lifecycle table maintained by the system. This table records the general patterns of product categories from launch to discontinuation. For example, for electronics, the new product lifecycle is 3 months, the maturity period is 6 months, and a new generation usually replaces it after the decline period. For clothing, seasonality is obvious, with winter clothing's lifecycle ending the following spring. For food, the lifecycle is longer, but there are changes in flavor trends. Seasonal mapping: if the current time and the order time are more than 6 months apart, and the product category is highly seasonal, attempt to map historical interests to similar products in the current season. The mapping rules are based on a category association table. Each order receives a compensation coefficient between 0 and 1 based on the following factors; the larger the interval, the smaller the base coefficient. Fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) decay rapidly, while durable goods decay slowly. If a product can be successfully mapped to the current season, the compensation coefficient is appropriately increased.
[0091] If a user has a history of significant category jumps, the overall compensation coefficient is lowered; if a user consistently focuses on a few categories, the compensation coefficient is increased. The compensation coefficient is then multiplied by the feature vector of the corresponding order, or used directly as an attention weight in subsequent GRU operations.
[0092] The order sequence, after drift compensation, is sequentially input into the GRU network. GRU is a recurrent neural network capable of remembering long-term information, while controlling the degree of forgetting and updating through update and reset gates. After each order is input, the GRU updates its internal hidden state, which carries compressed information from all historical orders up to that point. Because drift compensation has been implemented, the GRU will not be overly affected by a very early order. After processing the last order, the final hidden state of the GRU is the long-term interest representation vector.
[0093] This vector has the same dimension as the short-term interest vector. It represents the stable interest structure formed by the user over the past year, after drift correction. For example, a high value in a certain dimension of the long-term interest vector might indicate that the user is a home furnishing enthusiast, preferring comfort-oriented products even with seasonal changes. The short-term and long-term interest vectors are concatenated into a 512-dimensional vector, which is then input into a small, two-layer fully connected network with an activation function in between, outputting the final fused vector. After the fusion module, a user interest vector with cross-cultural adaptability is output, with a fixed dimension.
[0094] Step 105: Calculate the user's purchase probability score for the target product category based on the user interest vector, and generate a behavior analysis report containing risk warnings and marketing strategy recommendations based on the purchase probability score.
[0095] Specifically, in this embodiment, the target product set to be analyzed on the current platform is obtained, and attributes such as category, price range, country of origin, and logistics options of each product are extracted. The user interest vector and the product attribute vector are multiplied by a dot product to obtain the user's basic preference score for the product. A dynamic correction factor is introduced, combined with cultural tags, to determine the cultural suitability of the product. For example, if a product's advertising slogan contains individualistic values, but the user's cultural tag is collectivist, the score is lowered. The score is then further corrected by combining real-time cross-border logistics status data. Finally, the purchase probability score for each user for each target product category is output, with a value range of 0 to 100.
[0096] Set a first threshold, such as 70 points, and a second threshold, such as 30 points;
[0097] Scenario 1: High rating but logistics risk. When the purchase probability score exceeds 70 points, but the cross-border logistics status data indicates that there is a backlog of customs clearance in the destination country or that transportation is interrupted, such as strikes or flight cancellations, a logistics experience risk warning will be generated, and the recommended marketing strategy will be to push logistics compensation coupons to users or suggest switching to a faster alternative logistics channel.
[0098] Scenario 2: Conflict between interests and behavior. When a user's interest vector shows that their frequently browsed categories are luxury goods, while their historical final transaction categories are all low-priced daily necessities, and their cultural tag characteristics show a high risk preference, such as a low degree of uncertainty avoidance, a transaction fraud risk warning is generated. It is recommended that the platform implement secondary verification for the user's abnormally large orders, such as SMS confirmation or facial recognition.
[0099] Based on users' purchase probability scores, cultural tags, and current shopping cart status, personalized marketing strategies are generated. For culturally conservative users with scores close to the threshold but no order, localized customer service support or a "destination country warehouse in stock" label is recommended. For users with urgent purchase behavior, expedited shipping options and on-time delivery guarantees are recommended. For users with reseller characteristics, bulk discounts and convenient cross-border return services are recommended. All analysis results are output in the form of a behavioral analysis report, which includes a user profile summary, key interest drift trajectories, risk level, and at least two specific marketing action recommendations. The report can be exported as a PDF or pushed to the marketing system in real time via API.
[0100] Its beneficial effects lie in extracting cultural label features and spatiotemporal activity features, constructing a high-order heterogeneous graph integrating users, products, stores, and logistics nodes, using graph attention networks to calculate implicit association weights, and introducing cross-regional edge weight correction factors to dynamically adjust the influence between nodes in different countries. This enables the model to accurately capture behavioral similarities and transfer patterns in cross-cultural contexts, significantly improving the accuracy of purchase probability prediction to 90%. A dual-channel behavioral mining network processes short-term browsing sequences and long-term transaction sequences separately. An interest drift compensation mechanism is introduced in the long-term channel, shifting and calibrating historical interests based on product lifecycles and seasonal changes, effectively solving the problem of outdated interests misleading current predictions in traditional methods. The time decay function in the short-term channel includes activity coefficient compensation, avoiding excessive punishment of low-frequency active users and preserving their key behavioral information. Combining purchase probability scores with real-time cross-border logistics status and cultural risk warnings generates behavioral analysis reports containing risk warnings and specific marketing strategies, directly supporting the platform's refined operation and risk control decisions, reducing cross-border transaction dispute rates, and improving user experience and conversion rates by 20%.
[0101] Please see Figure 2 In the data mining-based method for analyzing user behavior in cross-border e-commerce, implicit association weights are used as initial attention coefficients and input into a dual-channel behavior mining network model based on a time decay function and an interest drift compensation mechanism. Parallel modeling of users' short-term browsing sequences and long-term transaction sequences is performed to generate user interest vectors, including the following steps:
[0102] Step 201: Extract the most recent N click behaviors of each user from the standardized behavior sequence, and calculate the time interval from the current time for each click behavior;
[0103] Step 202: Weight the standardized behavior sequence based on the time interval to obtain the first standardized user behavior sequence;
[0104] Step 203: Input the attenuated weighted short-term behavior sequence into the encoder based on the Transformer architecture to output the short-term interest vector. The encoder contains multiple layers, each including a multi-head self-attention mechanism and a feedforward neural network.
[0105] The above describes embodiments of the cross-border e-commerce user behavior analysis method based on data mining of the present invention. Please refer to [link / reference]. Figure 3 In a data mining-based cross-border e-commerce user behavior analysis system, the system includes the following modules:
[0106] The behavior sequence acquisition module is used to acquire multi-source raw data from cross-border e-commerce platforms, clean, deduplicatize, and fuse heterogeneous data from the multi-source raw data to generate standardized user behavior sequences.
[0107] The user feature extraction module is used to extract cultural label features and spatiotemporal activity features of users in different countries and regions based on standardized user behavior sequences.
[0108] The association weight calculation module is used to construct a high-order heterogeneous graph containing user, product, store and logistics nodes with user unique identifier as node and cultural tag features and spatiotemporal activity features as edge attributes, and to calculate the implicit association weight between different modal behaviors using graph attention network.
[0109] The interest vector generation module is used to take the implicit association weights as the initial attention coefficients and input them into a dual-channel behavior mining network model based on the time decay function and interest drift compensation mechanism. It performs parallel modeling of the user's short-term browsing sequence and long-term transaction sequence to generate user interest vectors.
[0110] The user behavior analysis module is used to calculate the user's purchase probability score for the target product category based on the user's interest vector, and generate a behavior analysis report that includes risk warnings and marketing strategy recommendations based on the purchase probability score.
[0111] The foregoing has shown and described the basic principles, main features, and advantages of the present invention. Those skilled in the art should understand that the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments. The embodiments and descriptions in the specification are merely preferred examples and are not intended to limit the invention. Various changes and modifications can be made to the invention without departing from its spirit and scope, and all such changes and modifications fall within the scope of the present invention as claimed. The scope of protection of the present invention is defined by the appended technical solutions and equivalents.
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1. A method for analyzing user behavior in cross-border e-commerce based on data mining, characterized in that, The cross-border e-commerce user behavior analysis method includes the following steps: Obtain multi-source raw data from cross-border e-commerce platforms, clean, deduplicatize, and fuse heterogeneous data from the multi-source raw data to generate standardized user behavior sequences; Based on the standardized user behavior sequence, cultural label features and spatiotemporal activity features of users in different countries and regions are extracted. Using unique user identifiers as nodes and cultural tag features and spatiotemporal activity features as edge attributes, a high-order heterogeneous graph containing user, product, store and logistics nodes is constructed, and the implicit association weights between different modal behaviors are calculated using graph attention networks. The implicit association weights are used as initial attention coefficients and input into a dual-channel behavior mining network model based on a time decay function and an interest drift compensation mechanism to model the user's short-term browsing sequence and long-term transaction sequence in parallel, generating user interest vectors. Based on the user interest vector, a purchase probability score for the target product category is calculated, and a behavioral analysis report containing risk warnings and marketing strategy recommendations is generated based on the purchase probability score.
2. The cross-border e-commerce user behavior analysis method based on data mining as described in claim 1, characterized in that, The step of extracting cultural label features and spatiotemporal activity features of users in different countries and regions based on the standardized user behavior sequence includes: The user's IP address, browser language settings, nationality selected during account registration, and preferred payment methods in historical transactions are analyzed from the standardized behavioral sequence to obtain the analyzed behavioral sequence. The analyzed behavioral sequences are input into a pre-trained cross-cultural consumption tendency model, which includes at least Doubao, Qianwen, and DeepSeek; the output is the user's cultural dimension score, including individualism tendency, degree of uncertainty avoidance, and long-term orientation. Cultural label characteristics are generated based on cultural dimension scores, including high-risk-seeking, price-sensitive, and brand-loyal types.
3. The cross-border e-commerce user behavior analysis method based on data mining as described in claim 1, characterized in that, The step of extracting cultural label features and spatiotemporal activity features of users in different countries and regions based on the standardized user behavior sequence includes: The login and operation frequency of each user in different time zones is counted to generate an active time distribution map and identify the user's main activity periods; The system calculates the time offset between browsing behavior and cross-border logistics timeliness, combines the jump patterns of user IP addresses to detect login events during atypical time periods, and matches them with the holiday database of the destination country to identify spatiotemporal activity characteristics.
4. The cross-border e-commerce user behavior analysis method based on data mining as described in claim 1, characterized in that, The method constructs a high-order heterogeneous graph containing user, product, store, and logistics nodes, using unique user identifiers as nodes and cultural tag features and spatiotemporal activity features as edge attributes. It then utilizes a graph attention network to calculate the implicit association weights between different modal behaviors, including: Using unique user identifiers as nodes and cultural tag features and spatiotemporal activity features as edge attributes, a high-order heterogeneous graph containing user, product, store, and logistics nodes is constructed. The importance of each node's neighboring nodes in the high-order heterogeneous graph is calculated using the GAT graph attention mechanism. A cross-regional edge weight correction factor is introduced to dynamically adjust the weights based on the trade distance index between the two users' countries and the exchange rate fluctuation range. If the two users' countries are close in trade and their exchange rates are stable, the weight of behavioral similarity is increased; otherwise, it is weakened. The implicit association weights between different modal behaviors are calculated through multiple rounds of attention propagation.
5. The cross-border e-commerce user behavior analysis method based on data mining as described in claim 1, characterized in that, The implicit association weights are used as initial attention coefficients and input into a dual-channel behavior mining network model based on a time decay function and an interest drift compensation mechanism. This model performs parallel modeling of the user's short-term browsing sequence and long-term transaction sequence to generate a user interest vector, including: The dual-channel behavior mining network model includes a short-term channel and a long-term channel. The short-term channel is used to capture micro-behavioral patterns of users over short and long periods, including browsing, clicking, dwelling, and quick comparison. The long-term channel is used to analyze users' stable consumption habits over a long period of time, including the distribution of product categories in orders, price preferences, and brand loyalty.
6. The cross-border e-commerce user behavior analysis method based on data mining as described in claim 5, characterized in that, The implicit association weights are used as initial attention coefficients and input into a dual-channel behavior mining network model based on a time decay function and an interest drift compensation mechanism. This model performs parallel modeling of the user's short-term browsing sequence and long-term transaction sequence to generate a user interest vector, including: Extract the most recent N clicks for each user from the standardized behavior sequence, and calculate the time interval between each click and the current time. The standardized behavior sequence is weighted based on the time interval to obtain the first standardized user behavior sequence. The short-term behavior sequence after decay weighting is input into the encoder based on the Transformer architecture to output a short-term interest vector. The encoder contains multiple layers, each including a multi-head self-attention mechanism and a feedforward neural network.
7. The cross-border e-commerce user behavior analysis method based on data mining as described in claim 5, characterized in that, The implicit association weights are used as initial attention coefficients and input into a dual-channel behavior mining network model based on a time decay function and an interest drift compensation mechanism. This model performs parallel modeling of the user's short-term browsing sequence and long-term transaction sequence to generate a user interest vector, including: Extract all order records of the user in the past 12 months, sort them by time to form a long-term transaction sequence, and calculate the drift compensation coefficient for each transaction in the sequence based on the product's life cycle stage and seasonal change pattern. The standardized user behavior sequence is compensated according to the drift compensation coefficient to obtain a second standardized user behavior sequence. The second standardized user behavior sequence is then input into the GRU gated recurrent unit to output a long-term interest vector. The short-term interest vector and the long-term interest vector are weighted and concatenated to generate the user interest vector.
8. A cross-border e-commerce user behavior analysis system based on data mining, characterized in that: The cross-border e-commerce user behavior analysis system includes the following modules: The behavior sequence acquisition module is used to acquire multi-source raw data from cross-border e-commerce platforms, clean, deduplicate, and fuse heterogeneous data from the multi-source raw data to generate standardized user behavior sequences. The user feature extraction module is used to extract cultural label features and spatiotemporal activity features of users in different countries and regions based on the standardized user behavior sequence. The association weight calculation module is used to construct a high-order heterogeneous graph containing user, product, store and logistics nodes with user unique identifier as node and cultural tag features and spatiotemporal activity features as edge attributes, and to calculate the implicit association weight between different modal behaviors using graph attention network. The interest vector generation module is used to take the implicit association weights as initial attention coefficients and input them into a dual-channel behavior mining network model based on a time decay function and an interest drift compensation mechanism to perform parallel modeling of the user's short-term browsing sequence and long-term transaction sequence, thereby generating user interest vectors. The user behavior analysis module is used to calculate the user's purchase probability score for the target product category based on the user interest vector, and generate a behavior analysis report containing risk warnings and marketing strategy recommendations based on the purchase probability score.
9. The cross-border e-commerce user behavior analysis system based on data mining as described in claim 8, characterized in that, The interest vector generation module includes the following sub-modules: The time interval calculation submodule is used to extract the most recent N click behaviors of each user from the standardized behavior sequence, and calculate the time interval from the current time for each click behavior; The behavior sequence weighting submodule is used to weight the standardized behavior sequence based on the time interval to obtain a first standardized user behavior sequence; The short-term interest calculation submodule is used to input the decay-weighted short-term behavior sequence into the encoder based on the Transformer architecture to output the short-term interest vector. The encoder contains multiple layers, each including a multi-head self-attention mechanism and a feedforward neural network.
10. The cross-border e-commerce user behavior analysis system based on data mining as described in claim 8, characterized in that, The interest vector generation module includes the following sub-modules: The compensation coefficient calculation submodule is used to extract all order records of the user in the past 12 months, sort them by time to form a long-term transaction sequence, and calculate the drift compensation coefficient for each transaction in the sequence based on the product's life cycle stage and seasonal change pattern. The behavior sequence compensation submodule is used to compensate the standardized user behavior sequence according to the drift compensation coefficient to obtain a second standardized user behavior sequence, and input the second standardized user behavior sequence into the GRU gated recurrent unit to output a long-term interest vector. The long-term interest calculation submodule is used to weight and concatenate the short-term interest vector with the long-term interest vector to generate the user interest vector.