ML Recommendation Model Constraint Integration

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing digital content recommendation systems fail to effectively integrate prescriptive rulesets with machine learning models, leading to subpar recommendations and complex architectural designs that hinder diagnostic analysis, making it difficult to determine whether recommendations are based on ML modeling or prescriptive logic.

Innovation Solution

A synergistic approach that combines predictive and prescriptive modeling in digital content recommendation systems, integrating prescriptive reasoning into the machine learning recommendation model to generate content layouts that satisfy constraints and optimize user interaction, while simplifying the modeling architecture by removing ad-hoc prescriptive logic layers.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Manufacturing precision

If prescriptive rulesets and programming logic are used to configure digital content item displays, then content selection constraints and preferences can be satisfied, but the architectural design becomes complex and difficult to analyze

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent selection constraint satisfactionVSAvoidmodeling architecture complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges prescriptive rulesets and programming logic directly into the machine learning recommendation model, eliminating separate prescriptive logic layers. This integration allows the model to natively understand and satisfy content selection constraints while generating recommendations, thereby reducing architectural complexity while maintaining constraint satisfaction capability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The recommendation model is designed to perform multiple functions simultaneously: it generates content recommendations based on user preferences while also satisfying prescriptive content selection constraints. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for separate prescriptive logic components, simplifying the overall architecture.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Manufacturing precision

If prescriptive rulesets are layered on top of machine learning recommendation engines, then content constraints can be enforced, but the recommendations become subpar due to lack of integration

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvecontent constraint enforcementVSAvoidrecommendation quality
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

By merging prescriptive rulesets into the machine learning recommendation model itself, the system ensures that content constraints are enforced natively during the recommendation generation process. This integration prevents the creation of subpar recommendations that occur when prescriptive logic is applied as a separate layer, as the model now inherently understands both user preferences and content constraints simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Adaptability or versatility

If separate prescriptive logic layers are maintained above the machine learning model, then prescriptive constraints can be applied, but diagnostic analysis becomes difficult to determine whether recommendations are based on ML modeling or prescriptive logic

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprescriptive constraint applicationVSAvoidrecommendation source diagnosticability
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSDifficulty of detecting and measuring

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges prescriptive logic into the machine learning model, creating a unified recommendation system where both ML-based user preference modeling and prescriptive constraint application occur within the same model framework. This integration eliminates the ambiguity of determining whether recommendations stem from ML modeling or prescriptive logic, as the model now natively incorporates both aspects, thereby improving diagnostic clarity.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Data Source

PatentUS20240232652A1Digital content classification and recommendation using constraint-based predictive machine learning
Publication Date: 2024.07.11 FMR CORP
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AI summary

Methods and apparatuses are described for digital content classification and recommendation using constraint-based predictive machine learning. A server trains a machine learning (ML) recommendation model to generate digital content layouts each comprising digital content item slots arranged according to one or more digital content selection constraints. The server receives user profile information for a first user. The server executes the trained ML recommendation model to generate a plurality of digital content item displays, each including a selected digital content item placed in each slot. The server determines, for each digital content item display, an interaction prediction score for each digital content item in the display. The server selects a digital content item display based upon the interaction predictions scores. The server transmits the selected digital content item display to a client device.