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(Part #2) ML – Important decisions to be made

Let's continue introducing you to our new project - product matching assisted by Machine Learning (ML).

Before kicking the project off, we had to make some really important decisions regarding the project scope.

1.Language-specific or universal ML model?

Of course, one would like his solution to be as broadly applicable as possible.

  • Language-specific model would probably be more precise but would require training for each language individually.

  • And, preparing a training set, as you will see is a very difficult one
    As Price2Spy has clients from literally all over the world, we would need to cover at least 15 different languages, and some of them written in non-Latin scripts.

Decision: try to go for a universal solution, by all means

2. Industry-specific or universal ML model?

  • Price2Spy works with over 25 different industries. Preparing 25 training sets to build 25 different ML models seemed like a nightmare.

  • Again, the industry-specific model would probably be more precise but would require training for each language individually. And, preparing a training set which is representative enough, as you will see is a very difficult one

Decision: try to go for a universal solution, by all means

3. Matching accuracy

  • One thing that we have learned in 9 years in this business is that a wrong match is something that we cannot afford to have in Price2Spy. Wrong match => Wrong pricing decision. Our customers cannot have that => we cannot have that!

  • 99% matching accuracy is not sufficient. Even if it’s only 1% of wrong matches – how can the client know which 1% is wrong?

Decision: we’re striving for 100% matching accuracy

So, we have our 3 key ML matching decisions. On to the next task – preparing the training set!

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