Data-driven personalized marketing strategy optimization based on user behavior modeling and predictive analytics:
1School of Economics and Management, Changchun Finance College, Changchun, Jilin, China.
Plos One
|July 24, 2025
Summary
This study introduces DP-GCN, a novel framework for personalized recommendations. DP-GCN enhances recommendation accuracy and adaptability by integrating graph convolutional networks with reinforcement learning.
Area of Science:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Data Science
Background:
- Personalized recommendation systems face challenges modeling complex user-product-query interactions.
- Existing methods struggle to effectively capture heterogeneous information networks.
Purpose of the Study:
- To propose a novel framework, DP-GCN (Deterministic Policy Graph Convolutional Network), for improved personalized recommendations.
- To integrate multi-level Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) with Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) reinforcement learning.
Main Methods:
- A graph-based embedding module captures multi-relational structures.
- A fusion layer integrates dynamic and static user and item features.
- A reinforcement learning layer adaptively updates recommendation policies based on user feedback.
Main Results:
- DP-GCN consistently outperformed state-of-the-art baselines on benchmark and real-world datasets.
- Significant improvements were observed in AUC, Precision@K, and NDCG@K metrics.
- The model demonstrated enhanced accuracy and adaptability in personalized recommendations.
Conclusions:
- Combining graph-based relational modeling with reinforcement learning is effective for personalized recommendation systems.
- DP-GCN offers a robust solution for complex user-product-query interactions.
- The framework improves both the accuracy and adaptability of modern marketing systems.


