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Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation is one of the most important location-based services helping people discover interesting venues or services. However, the extreme user-POI matrix sparsity and the varying spatio-temporal context pose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Xianjing Wang , Flora D. Salim , Yongli Ren , Piotr Koniusz

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

The rapid growth of location acquisition technologies makes Point-of-Interest(POI) recommendation possible due to redundant user check-in records. In this paper, we focus on next POI recommendation in which next POI is based on previous…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Yiping Sun

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

Recently, Point of interest (POI) recommendation has gained ever-increasing importance in various Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs). With the recent advances of neural models, much work has sought to leverage neural networks to learn…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-01 Hossein A. Rahmani , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Rasoul Mirzaei Zadeh , Mitra Baratchi , Mohsen Afsharchi , Fabio Crestani

Next point-of-interest (POI) recommendation is a critical task in location-based social networks, yet remains challenging due to a high degree of variation and personalization exhibited in user movements. In this work, we explore the latent…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Jiayi Xie , Zhenzhong Chen

Recent years have witnessed the increasing popularity of Location-based Social Network (LBSN) services, which provides unparalleled opportunities to build personalized Point-of-Interest (POI) recommender systems. Existing POI recommendation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Dongbo Xi , Fuzhen Zhuang , Yanchi Liu , Hengshu Zhu , Pengpeng Zhao , Chang Tan , Qing He

BERT, which stands for Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, is a recently introduced language representation model based upon the transfer learning paradigm. We extend its fine-tuning procedure to address one of its…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-25 Raghavendra Pappagari , Piotr Żelasko , Jesús Villalba , Yishay Carmiel , Najim Dehak

Point-of-Interest recommendation is an increasing research and developing area within the widely adopted technologies known as Recommender Systems. Among them, those that exploit information coming from Location-Based Social Networks…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Pablo Sánchez , Alejandro Bellogín

Human mobility forecasting is crucial for disaster relief, city planning, and public health. However, existing models either only model location sequences or include time information merely as auxiliary input, thereby failing to leverage…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Yunzhi Liu , Haokai Tan , Rushi Kanjaria , Lihuan Li , Flora D. Salim

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…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Qianru Zhang , Peng Yang , Junliang Yu , Haixin Wang , Xingwei He , Siu-Ming Yiu , Hongzhi Yin

Variability in social app usage across regions results in a high skew of the quantity and the quality of check-in data collected, which in turn is a challenge for effective location recommender systems. In this paper, we present Axolotl…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Vinayak Gupta , Srikanta Bedathur

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

POI recommendation is practically important to facilitate various Location-Based Social Network services, and has attracted rising research attention recently. Existing works generally assume the available POI check-ins reported by users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Jiangnan Xia , Yu Yang , Senzhang Wang , Hongzhi Yin , Jiannong Cao , Philip S. Yu

As the popularity of Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs) increases, designing accurate models for Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation receives more attention. POI recommendation is often performed by incorporating contextual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Hossein A. Rahmani , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Mitra Baratchi , Fabio Crestani

The next point-of-interest (POI) prediction is a significant task in location-based services, yet its complexity arises from the consolidation of spatial and semantic intent. This fusion is subject to the influences of historical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Nan Jiang , Haitao Yuan , Jianing Si , Minxiao Chen , Shangguang Wang

Modeling users' dynamic and evolving preferences from their historical behaviors is challenging and crucial for recommendation systems. Previous methods employ sequential neural networks (e.g., Recurrent Neural Network) to encode users'…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Fei Sun , Jun Liu , Jian Wu , Changhua Pei , Xiao Lin , Wenwu Ou , Peng Jiang

Predicting the next pickup location of individual users is a fundamental problem in intelligent mobility systems, which requires modeling personalized travel behaviors under complex spatiotemporal contexts. Existing methods mainly learn…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Lingyu Zhang , Pengfei Xu , Rui Ban , Zhenchao Zhang , Songtao Liu , Yan Wang , Yunhai Wang

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

Accurate prediction of the next point of interest (POI) within human mobility trajectories is essential for location-based services, as it enables more timely and personalized recommendations. In particular, with the rise of these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ruichen Tan , Jiawei Xue , Kota Tsubouchi , Takahiro Yabe , Satish V. Ukkusuri