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Point-Of-Interest (POI) recommendation aims to mine a user's visiting history and find her/his potentially preferred places. Although location recommendation methods have been studied and improved pervasively, the challenges w.r.t employing…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-01-04 Saeid Hosseini , Hongzhi Yin , Xiaofang Zhou , Shazia Sadiq

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

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

With the rapid growth of Location-Based Social Networks, personalized Points of Interest (POIs) recommendation has become a critical task to help users explore their surroundings. Due to the scarcity of check-in data, the availability of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Hossein A. Rahmani , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Sajad Ahmadian , Mitra Baratchi , Mohsen Afsharchi , Fabio Crestani

The rapid growth of users' involvement in Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) has led to the expeditious growth of the data on a global scale. The need of accessing and retrieving relevant information close to users' preferences is an…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Giannis Christoforidis , Pavlos Kefalas , Apostolos N. Papadopoulos , Yannis Manolopoulos

Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation is of great value for both location-based service providers and users. Recently Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have been proved to be effective on sequential recommendation tasks. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-19 Pengpeng Zhao , Haifeng Zhu , Yanchi Liu , Zhixu Li , Jiajie Xu , Victor S. Sheng

Recent progress in geospatial foundation models highlights the importance of learning general-purpose representations for real-world locations, particularly points-of-interest (POIs) where human activity concentrates. Existing approaches,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Maria Despoina Siampou , Shushman Choudhury , Shang-Ling Hsu , Neha Arora , Cyrus Shahabi

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

The exponential growth of Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs) has greatly stimulated the demand for precise location-based recommendation services. Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation, which aims to provide personalised POI…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yang Li , Tong Chen , Peng-Fei Zhang , Zi Huang , Hongzhi Yin

Recommending points of interest (POIs) is a challenging task that requires extracting comprehensive location data from location-based social media platforms. To provide effective location-based recommendations, it's important to analyze…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Syed Raza Bashir , Shaina Raza , Vojislav Misic

Recommending Points-of-Interest (POIs) is surfacing in many location-based applications. The literature contains personalized and socialized POI recommendation approaches which employ historical check-ins and social links to make…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Behrooz Omidvar-Tehrani , Sruthi Viswanathan , Jean-Michel Renders

Point-of-interest (POI) type prediction is the task of inferring the type of a place from where a social media post was shared. Inferring a POI's type is useful for studies in computational social science including sociolinguistics,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Danae Sánchez Villegas , Nikolaos Aletras

Next Point-of-Interests (POIs) recommendation task aims to provide a dynamic ranking of POIs based on users' current check-in trajectories. The recommendation performance of this task is contingent upon a comprehensive understanding of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Tianhao Huang , Xuan Pan , Xiangrui Cai , Ying Zhang , Xiaojie Yuan

The revolution of World Wide Web (WWW) and smart-phone technologies have been the key-factor behind remarkable success of social networks. With the ease of availability of check-in data, the location-based social networks (LBSN) (e.g.,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Ramesh Baral , Tao Li , XiaoLong Zhu

The rapid proliferation of Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) has underscored the importance of Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation systems in enhancing user experiences. While individual POI recommendation methods leverage users'…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jing Long , Liang Qu , Junliang Yu , Tong Chen , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin

Point-of-interest (POI) recommendation systems aim to predict the next destinations of user based on their preferences and historical check-ins. Existing generative POI recommendation methods usually employ random numeric IDs for POIs,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Dongsheng Wang , Yuxi Huang , Shen Gao , Yifan Wang , Chengrui Huang , Shuo Shang

As a fundamental component in location-based services, inferring the relationship between points-of-interests (POIs) is very critical for service providers to offer good user experience to business owners and customers. Most of the existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Yile Chen , Xiucheng Li , Gao Cong , Cheng Long , Zhifeng Bao , Shang Liu , Wanli Gu , Fuzheng Zhang

Spatial representations that capture both structural and semantic characteristics of urban environments are essential for urban modeling. Traditional spatial embeddings often prioritize spatial proximity while underutilizing fine-grained…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Junyuan Liu , Xinglei Wang , Tao Cheng

Point-of-Interest (POI ) recommendation systems have gained popularity for their unique ability to suggest geographical destinations with the incorporation of contextual information such as time, location, and user-item interaction.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Ali Tourani , Hossein A. Rahmani , Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei , Yashar Deldjoo

Tour itinerary planning and recommendation are challenging tasks for tourists in unfamiliar countries. Many tour recommenders only consider broad POI categories and do not align well with users' preferences and other locational constraints.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Ngai Lam Ho , Kwan Hui Lim