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This paper introduces WPGRec, a novel sequential recommendation framework that leverages wavelet packet transforms and graph propagation to model user interests across different temporal scales. It addresses limitations of existing frequency-domain methods by using a full-tree undecimated stationary wavelet packet transform to generate shift-invariant subband sequences, followed by subband-wise interaction-graph propagation. Experiments on four public datasets demonstrate that WPGRec outperforms existing sequential and graph-based recommendation methods, especially on sparse and behaviorally complex datasets.
Achieve state-of-the-art sequential recommendations by aligning multi-resolution temporal dynamics with graph propagation at matching scales.
Sequential recommendation aims to model users'evolving interests from noisy and non-stationary interaction streams, where long-term preferences, short-term intents, and localized behavioral fluctuations may coexist across temporal scales. Existing frequency-domain methods mainly rely on either global spectral operations or filter-based wavelet processing. However, global spectral operations tend to entangle local transients with long-range dependencies, while filter-based wavelet pipelines may suffer from temporal misalignment and boundary artifacts during multi-scale decomposition and reconstruction. Moreover, collaborative signals from the user-item interaction graph are often injected through scale-inconsistent auxiliary modules, limiting the benefit of jointly modeling temporal dynamics and structural dependencies. To address these issues, we propose Wavelet Packet Guided Graph Enhanced Sequential Recommendation (WPGRec), a unified time-frequency and graph-enhanced framework that aligns multi-resolution temporal modeling with graph propagation at matching scales. WPGRec first applies a full-tree undecimated stationary wavelet packet transform to generate equal-length, shift-invariant subband sequences. It then performs subband-wise interaction-graph propagation to inject high-order collaborative information while preserving temporal alignment across resolutions. Finally, an energy- and spectral-flatness-aware gated fusion module adaptively aggregates informative subbands and suppresses noise-like components. Extensive experiments on four public benchmarks show that WPGRec consistently outperforms sequential and graph-based baselines, with particularly clear gains on sparse and behaviorally complex datasets, highlighting the effectiveness of band-consistent structure injection and adaptive subband fusion for sequential recommendation.
