Systems and methods for variant item recommendation

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

• receiving a request for an interface;
• receiving a set of candidate items selected from an item catalog, wherein at least one of the candidate items is representative of two or more variant items in the item catalog;
• determining a variant score for each variant item related to the at least one of the candidate items;
• generating a set of recommended items by independently ranking each item in the set of candidate items and each of the two or more variant items, wherein the set of recommended items is generated by a variant-aware ranking model configured to receive the variant score for each variant item, and wherein the set of recommended items is generated based on a relevancy score for each variant item;
• generating the interface including the set of recommended items;
• and
• transmitting the interface to a system that generated the request for the interface.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, cause a device to perform operations comprising:

• receiving a request for an interface;
• receiving a set of candidate items selected from an item catalog, wherein at least one of the candidate items is representative of two or more variant items in the item catalog;
• determining a variant score for each variant item related to the at least one of the candidate items;
• generating, by a variant-aware ranking model, a relevancy score for each variant item;
• generating a set of recommended items by independently ranking each item in the set of candidate items and each of the two or more variant items, wherein the set of recommended items is generated by a variant-aware ranking model configured to receive the variant score for each variant item, and wherein the set of recommended items is generated based on the variant score and the relevancy score for each variant item;
• generating the interface including the set of recommended items;
• and
• transmitting the interface to a system that generated the request for the interface.