Micro-Behavior Encoding for Session-based Recommendation
Jiahao Yuan, Wendi Ji, Dell Zhang, Jinwei Pan, Xiaoling Wang

TL;DR
This paper introduces a novel session-based recommendation model that incorporates micro-behavior patterns using a multigraph and self-attention, significantly improving prediction accuracy over existing methods.
Contribution
It systematically investigates micro-behavior effects in SR and proposes a unified model capturing sequential and relational patterns with graph neural networks and self-attention.
Findings
Outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on three datasets.
Effectively captures interdependencies between micro-behavior operations.
Demonstrates the importance of micro-behavior patterns in SR accuracy.
Abstract
Session-based Recommendation (SR) aims to predict the next item for recommendation based on previously recorded sessions of user interaction. The majority of existing approaches to SR focus on modeling the transition patterns of items. In such models, the so-called micro-behaviors describing how the user locates an item and carries out various activities on it (e.g., click, add-to-cart, and read-comments), are simply ignored. A few recent studies have tried to incorporate the sequential patterns of micro-behaviors into SR models. However, those sequential models still cannot effectively capture all the inherent interdependencies between micro-behavior operations. In this work, we aim to investigate the effects of the micro-behavior information in SR systematically. Specifically, we identify two different patterns of micro-behaviors: "sequential patterns" and "dyadic relational…
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TopicsRecommender Systems and Techniques · Machine Learning in Healthcare · Mental Health via Writing
