Int-GNN: a User Intention Aware Graph Neural Network for Session-Based Recommendation

Session-Based Recommendation (SBR) is a spotlight research problem. Although many efforts have been made, challenges still exist. The key to unlocking this shackle is the user intention, an intuitive but hard-to-model concept in the anonymous session. Unlike previous research, we suggest mining potential user intention by counting the number of item occurrences in a user session and considering the long interval between item re-interactions. Beyond these, we take user preference, a biased user intention, into account in the prediction stage. Forming these together, we propose a model named user Intention aware Graph Neural Network (Int-GNN) aiming at capturing user intention. Extensive experiments have been conducted on three real-world datasets, and the results show the superiority of our method. The code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/xuguangning1218/IntGNN_ICASSP2023.