Techniques are provided for generating intent-informed recommendations by encoding, into a first machine learning network, one or more features representing one or more interactions between at least one member of a first group of users and at least one resource, and extracting, from the first machine learning network, one or more features representing one or more interactions between at least one member of a second group of users and the at least one resource. Using the extracted features, an intent value can be determined by clustering the features of the first and second groups of users into at least one cluster using a second machine learning network. In turn, the intent value informs or otherwise feeds a recommendation engine that is configured to generate at least one recommendation of at least one resource based at least in part on further user interaction data associated with a user session.