Abstract
Over the last few years, FinTech (Financial Technology) companies have played a significant role in supporting e-commerce processes and transactions. For individual users, more convenient payment methods were invented to help them purchase more easily. For businesses, it’s now a lot easier to understand customers than ever, especially in knowing how they spend their money. In fact, the capability of predicting customer spending power over a period of time is a crucial task for marketers in making strategic decisions about advertising. However, it is not trivial to build such an automatic prediction system due to the numerous models and metrics available combined with the ad-hoc nature of personal purchases. In this paper, as the first step in tackling the above-mentioned problem, we explored the feasibility of applying different machine learning models and metrics to predict customer spending under different contexts. In particular, we applied Beta Geometric/Negative Binomial distribution (BG/NBD), Gamma-gamma, Linear Regression, Random Forest, and Light Gradient Boosting Machine (LightGBM) models to train and predict customer spending. Experimenting with anonymized real-world data supplied by one of the biggest payment providers in Vietnam provided us with valuable insights into the suitability of each model. The result of this research can serve as a foundation for more in-depth work on the same problem in the future.
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This project would not have been possible without the guidance from the ZaloPay's technical mentor. He had given us plenty of dedicated feedbacks in the project. Besides, we would like to thank ZaloPay for allowing us to access the anonymized payment data. Without it, our work would not be further processed.
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Hoang, K.N., Thanh, L.B., Thuy, T.N.T., Quoc, C.N., Dang, T.T. (2022). On the Feasibility of Machine Learning Models for Customer Spending Prediction Problem. In: Dang, T.K., Küng, J., Chung, T.M. (eds) Future Data and Security Engineering. Big Data, Security and Privacy, Smart City and Industry 4.0 Applications. FDSE 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1688. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8069-5_35
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