Multi-Granular Graph Learning with Fine-Grained Behavioral Pattern Awareness for Session-Based Recommendation

Abstract

Session-based recommendation aims to predict users’ next actions by modeling their ongoing interaction sequences, particularly in scenarios where long-term user profiles are unavailable. While existing methods have achieved promising results by leveraging sequential and graph-based structures, they often rely on global aggregation strategies that emphasize dominant user interests while overlooking the transient and fine-grained behavior patterns embedded in sessions. In practice, user intent evolves across sessions and is reflected through diverse behavioral patterns, ranging from immediate preferences to segmented co-occurrence interests and long-range goals. To address these limitations, we propose GraphFine, a novel multi-granular graph learning framework that achieves fine-grained behavioral pattern awareness for session-based recommendation. Our approach models user behavior at different temporal and semantic granularities through a combination of graph and hypergraph neural networks. Specifically, we employ a position-aware graph to capture short-term item transitions, and construct segmented co-occurrence hypergraphs to uncover high-order semantic relations among co-occurred items. To preserve diverse user intents, we further introduce a multi-view intent readout mechanism that extracts and adaptively integrates intent signals from short-term actions, segmented co-occurrence patterns, and entire sessions. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that GraphFine consistently outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods, confirming its effectiveness in capturing fine-grained and dynamic user preferences for more accurate recommendation.