r/MachineLearning - [P] Clickstream based user intent prediction with LSTMs and CNNs

I also did some experimentation with GRUs and LSTMs in NLP context, where I saw LSTMs performing better than GRUs, while they need more training time. Honestly, I never tried complete variable length sequences, because of the restriction, that each batch must be the same length and some layers are not usable if you have variable sequences. I don't think the difference will be huge, at least in my data. I experimented with different sequence lengths (100, 200, 250, 400, 500), and 400 and 500 have not performed better then 250. I did indeed achieve a noticeable performance improvement with embeddings, instead of one hot encoding.