Research Article

Nonindependent Session Recommendation Based on Ordinary Differential Equation

Table 1

Global symbols definition.

SymbolMeaning

Session graph. denotes a node in the graph, and denotes an edge between the nodes
The embedding vector of the session graph
A single layer representation of a gated graph neural networks
They represent each moment in the graph and the current gradient
Adjoint. It represents the dependence of the descending gradient on the hidden state at each time point
Potential state of time t
Initial state of time t
Terminal state of time t
Ordinary differential equation solver
It represents the sampled output at any time t obtained by the ODE solver
It represents the posterior probability of the sampled output. Specifically, it represents the probability of the item to be recommended