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Estimating consumer preferences is central to many problems in economics and marketing. This paper develops a flexible framework for learning individual preferences from partial ranking information by interpreting observed rankings as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-19 Yu-Chang Chen , Chen Chian Fuh , Shang En Tsai

In this paper, we describe a method to tackle data sparsity and create recommendations in domains with limited knowledge about user preferences. We expand the variational autoencoder collaborative filtering from a single-domain to a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Martin Milenkoski , Diego Antognini , Claudiu Musat

Individuals often navigate several options with incomplete knowledge of their own preferences. Information provisioning tools such as public rankings and personalized recommendations have become central to helping individuals make choices,…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2025-06-05 Omar Besbes , Yash Kanoria , Akshit Kumar

With the rapid development of location-based social networks (LBSNs), spatial item recommendation has become an important means to help people discover attractive and interesting venues and events, especially when users travel out of town.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-03-13 Weiqing Wang , Hongzhi Yin , Ling Chen , Yizhou Sun , Shazia Sadiq , Xiaofang Zhou

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

Large language models (LLMs) are typically aligned with population-level preferences, despite substantial variation across individual users. We introduce POPI, a user-level personalization framework that separates the problem into two…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Yizhuo Chen , Xin Liu , Ruijie Wang , Zheng Li , Pei Chen , Changlong Yu , Qingyu Yin , Priyanka Nigam , Meng Jiang , Bing Yin

Venue recommendation aims to assist users by making personalised suggestions of venues to visit, building upon data available from location-based social networks (LBSNs) such as Foursquare. A particular challenge for this task is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-06-28 Jarana Manotumruksa , Craig Macdonald , Iadh Ounis

A great deal of work aims to discover large general purpose models of image interest or memorability for visual search and information retrieval. This paper argues that image interest is often domain and user specific, and that efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Michael Burke , Siyabonga Mbonambi , Purity Molala , Raesetje Sefala

Many current applications use recommendations in order to modify the natural user behavior, such as to increase the number of sales or the time spent on a website. This results in a gap between the final recommendation objective and the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Stephen Bonner , Flavian Vasile

Nowadays voice search for points of interest (POI) is becoming increasingly popular. However, speech recognition for local POI has remained to be a challenge due to multi-dialect and massive POI. This paper improves speech recognition…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-08 Songjun Cao , Yike Zhang , Xiaobing Feng , Long Ma

Previous studies show that recommendation algorithms based on historical behaviors of users can provide satisfactory recommendation performance. Many of these algorithms pay attention to the interest of users, while ignore the influence of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Yan-Li Lee , Tao Zhou , Kexin Yang , Yajun Du , Liming Pan

Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation aims to predict users' next locations by leveraging historical check-in sequences. Although existing methods have shown promising results, they often struggle to capture complex high-order…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Jinze Wang , Tiehua Zhang , Lu Zhang , Yang Bai , Xin Li , Jiong Jin

Digital maps are commonly used across the globe for exploring places that users are interested in, commonly referred to as points of interest (PoI). In online food delivery platforms, PoIs could represent any major private compounds where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Abhinav Ganesan , Anubhav Gupta , Jose Mathew

LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems have potential benefits of complex decision-making tasks management across various domains but their applications in the next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation remain underexplored. This paper proposes a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Yuqian Wu , Yuhong Peng , Jiapeng Yu , Raymond S. T. Lee

This paper presents a mobile crowdsensing approach to identify the indoor points of interest (POI) by exploiting Wi-Fi similarity measurements. Since indoor environments are lacking the GPS positioning accuracy when compared to outdoors, we…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Sumudu Hasala Marakkalage , Ran Liu , Sanjana Kadaba Viswanath , Chau Yuen

Learning-to-rank (LTR) algorithms are ubiquitous and necessary to explore the extensive catalogs of media providers. To avoid the user examining all the results, its preferences are used to provide a subset of relatively small size. The…

Protecting Personal Identifiable Information (PII) in text data is crucial for privacy, but current PII generalization methods face challenges such as uneven data distributions and limited context awareness. To address these issues, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Kailin Zhang , Xinying Qiu

The integration of external personalized context information into document-grounded conversational systems has significant potential business value, but has not been well-studied. Motivated by the concept of personalized context-aware…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Hui Wan , Hongkang Li , Songtao Lu , Xiaodong Cui , Marina Danilevsky

Nowadays, recommender systems already impact almost every facet of peoples lives. To provide personalized high quality recommendation results, conventional systems usually train pointwise rankers to predict the absolute value of objectives…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Yi Ren , Hongyan Tang , Siwen Zhu

With the advent of GPS enabled smartphones, an increasing number of users is actively sharing their location through a variety of applications and services. Along with the continuing growth of Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-03-24 Luca Rossi , Matthew J. Williams , Christoph Stich , Mirco Musolesi