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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 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

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

While traditional recommendation techniques have made significant strides in the past decades, they still suffer from limited generalization performance caused by factors like inadequate collaborative signals, weak latent representations,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Jianghao Lin , Jiaqi Liu , Jiachen Zhu , Yunjia Xi , Chengkai Liu , Yangtian Zhang , Yong Yu , Weinan Zhang

Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation plays a vital role in various location-aware services. It has been observed that POI recommendation is driven by both sequential and geographical influences. However, since there is no annotated label…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Yifang Qin , Yifan Wang , Fang Sun , Wei Ju , Xuyang Hou , Zhe Wang , Jia Cheng , Jun Lei , Ming Zhang

POI recommendation is a key task in tourism information systems. However, in contrast to conventional point of interest (POI) recommender systems, the available data is extremely sparse; most tourist visit a few sightseeing spots once and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Kun Yi , Ryu Yamagishi , Taishan Li , Zhengyang Bai , Qiang Ma

Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation is a fundamental task in location-based services. While recent advances leverage Large Language Model (LLM) for sequential modeling, existing LLM-based approaches face two key limitations: (i)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Dongsheng Wang , Shen Gao , Chengrui Huang , Yuxi Huang , Ruixiang Feng , Shuo Shang

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

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

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

The wide spread of location-based social networks brings about a huge volume of user check-in data, which facilitates the recommendation of points of interest (POIs). Recent advances on distributed representation shed light on learning low…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-05-01 Bei Liu , Tieyun Qian , Bing Liu , Liang Hong , Zhenni You , Yuxiang Li

The task of point-of-interest (POI) recommendation is to predict users' immediate future movements based on their previous records and present circumstances. Popularity is considered as one of the primary deciding factors for selecting the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Alif Al Hasan , Md. Musfique Anwar , M. Arifur Rahman

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

Social recommendation has emerged as a powerful approach to enhance personalized recommendations by leveraging the social connections among users, such as following and friend relations observed in online social platforms. The fundamental…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Zongwei Li , Lianghao Xia , Chao Huang

Direct preference optimization (DPO) methods have shown strong potential in aligning text-to-image diffusion models with human preferences by training on paired comparisons. These methods improve training stability by avoiding the REINFORCE…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Yi-Lun Wu , Bo-Kai Ruan , Chiang Tseng , Hong-Han Shuai

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

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

Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in conditional image generation, yet their outputs often remain misaligned with human preferences. To address this, recent work has applied Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) to diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Shaomeng Wang , He Wang , Xiaolu Wei , Longquan Dai , Jinhui Tang

Point of interest (POI) recommendation can play a pivotal role in enriching tourists' experiences by suggesting context-dependent and preference-matching locations and activities, such as restaurants, landmarks, itineraries, and cultural…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Alejandro Bellogín , Linus W. Dietz , Francesco Ricci , Pablo Sánchez

Precise user and item embedding learning is the key to building a successful recommender system. Traditionally, Collaborative Filtering(CF) provides a way to learn user and item embeddings from the user-item interaction history. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Le Wu , Peijie Sun , Yanjie Fu , Richang Hong , Xiting Wang , Meng Wang