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Global and session item graph neural network for session-based recommendation

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Session-based recommendation algorithm is a research hotspot with economic significance and research value. Most of the algorithms are based on how to represent users and items better. Deep learning has made many achievements in the recommendation area due to its strong representation ability. Nevertheless, in recent years, the excellent performance of the graph neural network in network representation provides many inspirations. Numerous recommendation algorithms based on graph neural networks only consider building a graph for each session to handle recommendation tasks. The relationship between items in the entire data set is ignored. Therefore, we propose a recommendation algorithm called GS-GNN for integrating items’ global features and local features by graph neural network. By modeling the entire data as a global graph, we use the graph attention network to learn global representations of the items. We model each session as a session graph and use a gated graph neural network to learn local representations of the items. Sessions’ representations are obtained through the fusion of items. The task is to recommend top-k items for each session by items’ and sessions’ representations. We did a comparative experiment and performance analysis experiment. The comparative experiments prove the effectiveness of GS-GNN, and we also conduct a detailed analysis of the model through experiments.

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  2. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/dbzmtq4zhzbj5o9/AABuabiMBL612-RKhmI2n-eWa/Datasets/diginetica.zip

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This work was supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under grant no. 2018YFB1003602.

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    Jinfang Sheng, Jiafu Zhu, Bin Wang & Zhendan Long

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Conceptualization, J.S. and J.Z.; methodology, J.Z.; supervision, J.S. and B.W.; validation, J.Z. and Z.L.; writing, J.S. and J.Z. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.

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Sheng, J., Zhu, J., Wang, B. et al. Global and session item graph neural network for session-based recommendation. Appl Intell 53, 11737–11749 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-022-04034-w

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