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Learning effective representations of urban environments requires capturing spatial structure beyond fixed administrative boundaries. Existing geospatial representation learning approaches typically aggregate Points of Interest(POI) into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Mohammad Hashemi , Hossein Amiri , Andreas Zufle

Among the diverse services provided by Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs), Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation plays a crucial role in inferring user preferences from historical check-in trajectories. However, existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yuxi Lin , Yongkang Li , Jie Xing , Zipei Fan

Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation aims to predict users' next locations by leveraging historical check-in sequences. Although existing methods have shown promising results, they often struggle to capture complex high-order…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Jinze Wang , Tiehua Zhang , Lu Zhang , Yang Bai , Xin Li , Jiong Jin

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

Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation is a longstanding problem across the domains of Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN) and transportation. Recent Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) based approaches learn POI-POI relationships in a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-10-15 Nicholas Lim , Bryan Hooi , See-Kiong Ng , Xueou Wang , Yong Liang Goh , Renrong Weng , Jagannadan Varadarajan

Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs) enable users to socialize with friends and acquaintances by sharing their check-ins, opinions, photos, and reviews. Huge volume of data generated from LBSNs opens up a new avenue of research that gives…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Md. Ashraful Islam , Mir Mahathir Mohammad , Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das , Mohammed Eunus Ali

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

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

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

For traffic prediction in transportation services such as car-sharing and ride-hailing, mid-term road traffic prediction (within a few hours) is considered essential. However, the existing road-level traffic prediction has mainly studied…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Sumin Han , Jisun An , Dongman Lee

Personalized recommendation of Points of Interest (POIs) plays a key role in satisfying users on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs). In this paper, we propose a probabilistic model to find the mapping between user-annotated tags and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Mohammad Aliannejadi , Fabio Crestani

The next Point of Interest (POI) recommendation aims to recommend the next POI for users at a specific time. As users' check-in records can be viewed as a long sequence, methods based on Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have recently shown…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Bin Wang , Yan Zhang , Yan Ma , Yaohui Jin , Yanyan Xu

The recommendation of points of interest (POIs) is essential in location-based social networks. It makes it easier for users and locations to share information. Recently, researchers tend to recommend POIs by treating them as large-scale…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Syed Raza Bashir , Vojislav Misic

In location-based social networks (LBSNs), users sense urban point-of-interest (PoI) information in the vicinity and share such information with friends in online social networks. Given users' limited social connections and severe lags in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Songhua Li , Lingjie Duan

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

This study introduces a novel approach to terrain feature classification by incorporating spatial point pattern statistics into deep learning models. Inspired by the concept of location encoding, which aims to capture location…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Sizhe Wang , Wenwen Li

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

Existing spatial object recommendation algorithms generally treat objects identically when ranking them. However, spatial objects often cover different levels of spatial granularity and thereby are heterogeneous. For example, one user may…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Hui Luo , Jingbo Zhou , Zhifeng Bao , Shuangli Li , J. Shane Culpepper , Haochao Ying , Hao Liu , Hui Xiong

POI representation learning plays a crucial role in handling tasks related to user mobility data. Recent studies have shown that enriching POI representations with multimodal information can significantly enhance their task performance.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Jiawei Cheng , Jingyuan Wang , Yichuan Zhang , Jiahao Ji , Yuanshao Zhu , Zhibo Zhang , Xiangyu Zhao

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