  Session-based recommendation systems(SBRS) are more suitable for the current
e-commerce and streaming media recommendation scenarios and thus have become a
hot topic. The data encountered by SBRS is typically highly sparse, which also
serves as one of the bottlenecks limiting the accuracy of recommendations. So
Contrastive Learning(CL) is applied in SBRS owing to its capability of
improving embedding learning under the condition of sparse data. However,
existing CL strategies are limited in their ability to enforce finer-grained
(e.g., factor-level) comparisons and, as a result, are unable to capture subtle
differences between instances. More than that, these strategies usually use
item or segment dropout as a means of data augmentation which may result in
sparser data and thus ineffective self-supervised signals. By addressing the
two aforementioned limitations, we introduce a novel multi-granularity CL
framework. Specifically, two extra augmented embedding convolution channels
with different granularities are constructed and the embeddings learned by them
are compared with those learned from original view to complete the CL tasks. At
factor-level, we employ Disentangled Representation Learning to obtain
finer-grained data(e.g. factor-level embeddings), with which we can construct
factor-level convolution channels. At item-level, the star graph is deployed as
the augmented data and graph convolution on it can ensure the effectiveness of
self-supervised signals. Compare the learned embeddings of these two views with
the learned embeddings of the basic view to achieve CL at two granularities.
Finally, the more precise item-level and factor-level embeddings obtained are
referenced to generate personalized recommendations for the user. The proposed
model is validated through extensive experiments on two benchmark datasets,
showcasing superior performance compared to existing methods.
