Multi-dimensional graph neural network for sequential recommendation

Graph neural networks (GNNs) technology has been widely used in recommendation systems because most information in recommendation systems has a graph structure in nature, and GNNs have advantages in graph representation learning. In sequential recommendation, the relationships between interacting items can be constructed as an isomorphic graph, and (GNNs) can capture high-order information between graph nodes. Many models have used graph-based methods for sequential recommendation, and achieved great success. However, the existing research only considers the number of interactions between items when constructing the item graph. As such, revisions are needed to capture the multi-dimensional transformation relationships between items. Hence, we emphasize the importance of multi-dimensional information, and we propose a Category and Time information integrated Graph Neural Network (CTGNN), which combines the item category and interaction time information with a multi-layer graph convolution network to form multi-dimensional fine-grained item representations. In addition, we design a temporal self-attention network to model the dynamic user preference and make the next-item recommendation. Finally, we conduct extensive experiments on three real-world datasets, and the results demonstrate the excellent performance of the proposed model.