Modelling customer churn for the retail industry in a deep learning based sequential framework

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.00575v1
• Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2023 16:48:43 GMT
• Title: Modelling customer churn for the retail industry in a deep learning based sequential framework
• Authors: Juan Pablo Equihua, Henrik Nordmark, Maged Ali, Berthold Lausen
• Abstract summary: This work presents a deep survival framework to predict which customers are at risk of stopping to purchase with retail companies in non-contractual settings. We are able to obtain individual level survival models for purchasing behaviour based only on individual customer behaviour.
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• Abstract: As retailers around the world increase efforts in developing targeted marketing campaigns for different audiences, predicting accurately which customers are most likely to churn ahead of time is crucial for marketing teams in order to increase business profits. This work presents a deep survival framework to predict which customers are at risk of stopping to purchase with retail companies in non-contractual settings. By leveraging the survival model parameters to be learnt by recurrent neural networks, we are able to obtain individual level survival models for purchasing behaviour based only on individual customer behaviour and avoid time-consuming feature engineering processes usually done when training machine learning models.

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