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The widespread adoption of smartphones and Location-Based Social Networks has led to a massive influx of spatio-temporal data, creating unparalleled opportunities for enhancing Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation systems. These advanced…

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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

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

As an indispensable personalized service in Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs), the next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation aims to help people discover attractive and interesting places. Currently, most POI recommenders are based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jing Long , Tong Chen , Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung , Guandong Xu , Kai Zheng , Hongzhi Yin

A choice of optimization objective is immensely pivotal in the design of a recommender system as it affects the general modeling process of a user's intent from previous interactions. Existing approaches mainly adhere to three categories of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Hyunsoo Chung , Jungtaek Kim , Hyungeun Jo , Hyungwon Choi

Next point of interest (POI) recommendation primarily predicts future activities based on users' past check-in data and current status, providing significant value to users and service providers. We observed that the popular check-in times…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Pei-Xuan Li , Wei-Yun Liang , Fandel Lin , Hsun-Ping Hsieh

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

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),…

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In Location-Based Services, Point-Of-Interest(POI) recommendation plays a crucial role in both user experience and business opportunities. Graph neural networks have been proven effective in providing personalized POI recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Shaohua Liu , Yu Qi , Gen Li , Mingjian Chen , Teng Zhang , Jia Cheng , Jun Lei

Next POI recommendation intends to forecast users' immediate future movements given their current status and historical information, yielding great values for both users and service providers. However, this problem is perceptibly complex…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Song Yang , Jiamou Liu , Kaiqi Zhao

Being an indispensable component in location-based social networks, next point-of-interest (POI) recommendation recommends users unexplored POIs based on their recent visiting histories. However, existing work mainly models check-in data as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Yang Li , Tong Chen , Yadan Luo , Hongzhi Yin , Zi Huang

Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation has become an indispensable functionality in Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs) due to its effectiveness in helping people decide the next POI to visit. However, accurate recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Jing Long , Tong Chen , Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung , Hongzhi Yin

Current approaches for points-of-interest (POI) recommendation learn the preferences of a user via the standard spatial features such as the POI coordinates, the social network, etc. These models ignore a crucial aspect of spatial mobility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Vinayak Gupta , Srikanta Bedathur

Current study on next POI recommendation mainly explores user sequential transitions with the fine-grained individual-user POI check-in trajectories only, which suffers from the severe check-in data sparsity issue. In fact, coarse-grained…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Zhu Sun , Yu Lei , Lu Zhang , Chen Li , Yew-Soon Ong , Jie Zhang

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

In today's digital era, the use of Social Networks (SNs) and Location-Based SNs (LBSNs) has become integral for travelers seeking Points of Interest (POI) and sharing travel experiences. This trend is supported by the fact that a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Lucas Félix , Washington Cunha , Jussara Almeida

Recommending appropriate travel destinations to consumers based on contextual information such as their check-in time and location is a primary objective of Point-of-Interest (POI) recommender systems. However, the issue of contextual bias…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Hossein A. Rahmani , Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei , Ali Tourani , Yashar Deldjoo

Point-of-Interest (POI) recommender systems provide personalized recommendations to users and help businesses attract potential customers. Despite their success, recent studies suggest that highly data-driven recommendations could be…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Hossein A. Rahmani , Yashar Deldjoo , Ali Tourani , Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei

Characterizing users' interests accurately plays a significant role in an effective recommender system. The sequential recommender system can learn powerful hidden representations of users from successive user-item interactions and dynamic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Lingxiao Zhang , Jiangpeng Yan , Yujiu Yang , Xiu Li

As an indispensable personalized service within Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs), the Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation aims to assist individuals in discovering attractive and engaging places. However, the accurate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Jing Long , Tong Chen , Guanhua Ye , Kai Zheng , Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung , Hongzhi Yin