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This paper explores meta-learning in sequential recommendation to alleviate the item cold-start problem. Sequential recommendation aims to capture user's dynamic preferences based on historical behavior sequences and acts as a key component…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Yujia Zheng , Siyi Liu , Zekun Li , Shu Wu

Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation, which benefits from the proliferation of GPS-enabled devices and location-based social networks (LBSNs), plays an increasingly important role in recommender systems. It aims to provide users with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Wei Ju , Yifang Qin , Ziyue Qiao , Xiao Luo , Yifan Wang , Yanjie Fu , Ming Zhang

Among the diverse services provided by Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs), Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation plays a crucial role in inferring user preferences from historical check-in trajectories. However, existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yuxi Lin , Yongkang Li , Jie Xing , Zipei Fan

In recent years, deep learning has gained an indisputable success in computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing. After its rising success on these challenging areas, it has been studied on recommender systems as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Ezgi Yıldırım , Payam Azad , Şule Gündüz Öğüdücü

Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation plays a crucial role in location-based services by predicting users' future mobility patterns. Existing methods typically compute a single user representation from historical trajectories and use…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Zhenyu Yu , Chunlei Meng , Yangchen Zeng , Mohd Yamani Idna Idris , Shuigeng Zhou

Traditional Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation systems often lack transparency, interpretability, and scrutability due to their reliance on dense vector-based user embeddings. Furthermore, the cold-start problem -- where systems have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Wilson Wongso , Hao Xue , Flora D. Salim

Understanding human mobility behavior is crucial for numerous applications, including crowd management, location-based recommendations, and the estimation of pandemic spread. Machine learning models can predict the Points of Interest (POIs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Ziyao Li , Shang-Ling Hsu , Cyrus Shahabi

Sequential recommendation aims to estimate how a user's interests evolve over time via uncovering valuable patterns from user behavior history. Many previous sequential models have solely relied on users' historical information to model the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Lei Zheng , Ning Li , Yanhuan Huang , Ruiwen Xu , Weinan Zhang , Yong Yu

Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation is a critical task in location-based services that aim to provide personalized suggestions for the user's next destination. Previous works on POI recommendation have laid focused on modeling the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yifang Qin , Hongjun Wu , Wei Ju , Xiao Luo , Ming Zhang

We propose a meta path planning algorithm named \emph{Neural Exploration-Exploitation Trees~(NEXT)} for learning from prior experience for solving new path planning problems in high dimensional continuous state and action spaces. Compared…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Binghong Chen , Bo Dai , Qinjie Lin , Guo Ye , Han Liu , Le Song

Trip recommendation is an important location-based service that helps relieve users from the time and efforts for trip planning. It aims to recommend a sequence of places of interest (POIs) for a user to visit that maximizes the user's…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Jiayuan He , Jianzhong Qi , Kotagiri Ramamohanarao

Recommender systems have played a critical role in diverse digital services such as e-commerce, streaming media, social networks, etc. If we know what a user's intent is in a given session (e.g. do they want to watch short videos or a movie…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Sejoon Oh , Moumita Bhattacharya , Yesu Feng , Sudarshan Lamkhede

Sparsity of the User-POI matrix is a well established problem for next POI recommendation, which hinders effective learning of user preferences. Focusing on a more granular extension of the problem, we propose a Joint Triplet Loss Learning…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Nicholas Lim , Bryan Hooi , See-Kiong Ng , Yong Liang Goh

Point-of-Interest (POI) recommender systems play a vital role in people's lives by recommending unexplored POIs to users and have drawn extensive attention from both academia and industry. Despite their value, however, they still suffer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-31 Xiao Zhou , Cecilia Mascolo , Zhongxiang Zhao

The cold-start recommendation is an urgent problem in contemporary online applications. It aims to provide users whose behaviors are literally sparse with as accurate recommendations as possible. Many data-driven algorithms, such as the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Xiaowen Huang , Jitao Sang , Jian Yu , Changsheng Xu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been recently introduced in the domain of session-based next item recommendation. An ordered collection of past items the user has interacted with in a session (or sequence) are embedded into a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Fajie Yuan , Alexandros Karatzoglou , Ioannis Arapakis , Joemon M Jose , Xiangnan He

Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation is a critical task in location-based services, aiming to predict users' next visits based on their check-in histories. While many existing methods leverage Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yu Lei , Limin Shen , Zhu Sun , Tiantian He , Yew-Soon Ong

The next Point of Interest (POI) recommendation aims to recommend the next POI for users at a specific time. As users' check-in records can be viewed as a long sequence, methods based on Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have recently shown…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Bin Wang , Yan Zhang , Yan Ma , Yaohui Jin , Yanyan Xu

Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation is a fundamental task in location-based services. While recent advances leverage Large Language Model (LLM) for sequential modeling, existing LLM-based approaches face two key limitations: (i)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Dongsheng Wang , Shen Gao , Chengrui Huang , Yuxi Huang , Ruixiang Feng , Shuo Shang

Most existing point-of-interest (POI) recommenders aim to capture user preference by employing city-level user historical check-ins, thus facilitating users' exploration of the city. However, the scarcity of city-level user check-ins brings…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Jinze Wang , Lu Zhang , Zhu Sun , Yew-Soon Ong