Abstract
The session-based recommendation aims to generate personalized item suggestions by using short-term anonymous sessions to model user behavior and preferences. Early studies cast the session-based recommendation as a personalized ranking task, and adopt graph neural networks to aggregate information about users and items. Although these methods are effective to some extent, they have primarily focused on adjacent items tightly connected in the session graphs in general and overlooked the global preference representation. In addition, it is difficult to overcome the special properties of popularity bias in the real-world scenario. To address these issues, we propose a new method named GENE, short for Global Enhanced Graph Neural Network Embedding, to learn the session graph representations for the downstream session-based recommendation. Our model consists of three components. First, we propose to construct the session graph based on the order in which the items interact in the session with normalization. Second, we employ a graph neural network to obtain the latent vectors of items, then we represent the session graph by attention mechanisms. Third, we explore the session representation fusion for prediction incorporating linear transformation. The three components are integrated in a principled way for deriving a more accurate item list. Both quantitative results and qualitative analysis verify the effectiveness and rationality of our GENE method.
X. Sun and D. Meng—These authors contribute equally to this work.
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This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China Youth Fund (No. 61902001) and the Undergraduate Teaching Quality Improvement Project of Anhui Polytechnic University (No. 2022lzyybj02). We would also thank the anonymous reviewers for their detailed comments, which have helped us to improve the quality of this work. All opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies.
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Sun, X., Meng, D., Gao, X., Zhang, L., Kong, C. (2023). GENE: Global Enhanced Graph Neural Network Embedding for Session-Based Recommendation. In: Yuan, L., Yang, S., Li, R., Kanoulas, E., Zhao, X. (eds) Web Information Systems and Applications. WISA 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14094. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-6222-8_15
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