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The problem of recommending tours to travellers is an important and broadly studied area. Suggested solutions include various approaches of points-of-interest (POI) recommendation and route planning. We consider the task of recommending a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-26 Dawei Chen , Cheng Soon Ong , Lexing Xie

As location-based services (LBS) have grown in popularity, more human mobility data has been collected. The collected data can be used to build machine learning (ML) models for LBS to enhance their performance and improve overall experience…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Kunlin Cai , Jinghuai Zhang , Zhiqing Hong , Will Shand , Guang Wang , Desheng Zhang , Jianfeng Chi , Yuan Tian

The next point-of-interest (POI) recommendation task aims to predict the users' immediate next destinations based on their preferences and historical check-ins, holding significant value in location-based services. Recently, large language…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Penglong Zhai , Jie Li , Fanyi Di , Yue Liu , Yifang Yuan , Jie Huang , Peng Wu , Sicong Wang , Mingyang Yin , Tingting Hu , Yao Xu , Xin Li

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

Advancing large language models (LLMs) for the next point-of-interest (POI) recommendation task faces two fundamental challenges: (i) although existing methods produce semantic IDs that incorporate semantic information, their topology-blind…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Peibo Li , Shuang Ao , Hao Xue , Yang Song , Maarten de Rijke , Johan Barthélemy , Tomasz Bednarz , Flora D. Salim

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

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

Predicting the next location is a highly valuable and common need in many location-based services such as destination prediction and route planning. The goal of next location recommendation is to predict the next point-of-interest a user…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Yan Luo , Ye Liu , Fu-lai Chung , Yu Liu , Chang Wen Chen

Next Point of Interest (POI) recommendation is essential for modern mobility and location-based services. To provide a smooth user experience, models must understand several components of a journey holistically: "when to depart", "how to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Huimin Yan , Longfei Xu , Junjie Sun , Zheng Liu , Wei Luo , Kaikui Liu , Xiangxiang Chu

With the rapid growth of location-based social networks (LBSNs), Point-Of-Interest (POI) recommendation has been broadly studied in this decade. Recently, the next POI recommendation, a natural extension of POI recommendation, has attracted…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Yang Li , Yadan Luo , Zheng Zhang , Shazia W. Sadiq , Peng Cui

With the availability of vast amounts of user visitation history on location-based social networks (LBSN), the problem of Point-of-Interest (POI) prediction has been extensively studied. However, much of the research has been conducted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-19 Mengyue Hang , Ian Pytlarz , Jennifer Neville

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

Understanding how urban residents travel between neighborhoods and destinations is critical for transportation planning, mobility management, and public health. By mining historical origin-to-destination flow patterns with spatial,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Lin Pang , Jidong J. Yang

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer new opportunities for the next Point-Of-Interest (POI) prediction task, leveraging their capabilities in semantic understanding of POI trajectories. However, previous LLM-based methods, which are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Lin Zhong , Lingzhi Wang , Xu Yang , Qing Liao

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

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

Point-of-interest (POI) recommendation is an important application in location-based social networks (LBSNs), which learns the user preference and mobility pattern from check-in sequences to recommend POIs. However, previous POI…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Shenglin Zhao , Tong Zhao , Irwin King , Michael R. Lyu

Next point-of-interest (POI) recommendation improves personalized location-based services by predicting users' next destinations based on their historical check-ins. However, most existing methods rely on static datasets and fixed models,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Chenhao Wang , Shanshan Feng , Lisi Chen , Fan Li , Shuo Shang

Next-step location prediction plays a pivotal role in modeling human mobility, underpinning applications from personalized navigation to strategic urban planning. However, approaches that assume a closed world - restricting choices to a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zhehong Ren , Tianluo Zhang , Yiheng Lu , Yushen Liang , Promethee Spathis

The success of recommender systems in modern online platforms is inseparable from the accurate capture of users' personal tastes. In everyday life, large amounts of user feedback data are created along with user-item online interactions in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Xiao Zhou , Danyang Liu , Jianxun Lian , Xing Xie