SessionRec: Next Session Prediction Paradigm For Generative Sequential Recommendation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.10157v2
• Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 02:41:53 GMT
• Title: SessionRec: Next Session Prediction Paradigm For Generative Sequential Recommendation
• Authors: Lei Huang, Hao Guo, Linzhi Peng, Long Zhang, Xiaoteng Wang, Daoyuan Wang, Shichao Wang, Jinpeng Wang, Lei Wang, Sheng Chen,
• Abstract summary: We introduce SessionRec, a novel next-session prediction paradigm (NSPP) for generative sequential recommendation. Unlike NIPP's item-level autoregressive generation that contradicts actual session-based user interactions, our framework introduces a session-aware representation learning. We found that incorporating a rank loss for items within the session under the next session prediction paradigm can significantly improve the ranking effectiveness of generative sequence recommendation models.
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• Abstract: We introduce SessionRec, a novel next-session prediction paradigm (NSPP) for generative sequential recommendation, addressing the fundamental misalignment between conventional next-item prediction paradigm (NIPP) and real-world recommendation scenarios. Unlike NIPP's item-level autoregressive generation that contradicts actual session-based user interactions, our framework introduces a session-aware representation learning through hierarchical sequence aggregation (intra/inter-session), reducing attention computation complexity while enabling implicit modeling of massive negative interactions, and a session-based prediction objective that better captures users' diverse interests through multi-item recommendation in next sessions. Moreover, we found that incorporating a rank loss for items within the session under the next session prediction paradigm can significantly improve the ranking effectiveness of generative sequence recommendation models. We also verified that SessionRec exhibits clear power-law scaling laws similar to those observed in LLMs. Extensive experiments conducted on public datasets and online A/B test in Meituan App demonstrate the effectiveness of SessionRec. The proposed paradigm establishes new foundations for developing industrial-scale generative recommendation systems through its model-agnostic architecture and computational efficiency.

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