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GPS trajectory data reveals valuable patterns of human mobility and urban dynamics, supporting a variety of spatial applications. However, traditional methods often struggle to extract deep semantic representations and incorporate…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Chunhou Ji , Qiumeng Li

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

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

Next location prediction is a critical task in human mobility analysis.Existing methods typically formulate it as a classification task based on discrete location IDs, which hinders spatial continuity modeling and limits generalization to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Shuai Liu , Ning Cao , Yile Chen , Yue Jiang , George Rosario Jagadeesh , Gao Cong

Point-of-interest (POI) recommendations are essential for travelers and the e-tourism business. They assist in decision-making regarding what venues to visit and where to dine and stay. While it is known that traditional recommendation…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Linus W. Dietz , Pablo Sánchez , Alejandro Bellogín

Tour itinerary recommendation involves planning a sequence of relevant Point-of-Interest (POIs), which combines challenges from the fields of both Operations Research (OR) and Recommendation Systems (RS). As an OR problem, there is the need…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Ngai Lam Ho , Kwan Hui Lim

This paper investigates demonstration selection strategies for predicting a user's next point-of-interest (POI) using large language models (LLMs), aiming to accurately forecast a user's subsequent location based on historical check-in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Ryo Nishida , Masayuki Kawarada , Tatsuya Ishigaki , Hiroya Takamura , Masaki Onishi

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

Large-scale GPS trajectory data offer rich observations of human mobility, yet assigning trip purposes to detected stops remains challenging due to the absence of individual-level ground truth, spatial uncertainty from GPS noise and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Bo Yang , Haoxuan Ma , Yifan Liu , Zhiyuan Zhang , Chris Stanford , Morgan Sun , Jiaqi Ma

An essential task for tourists having a pleasant holiday is to have a well-planned itinerary with relevant recommendations, especially when visiting unfamiliar cities. Many tour recommendation tools only take into account a limited number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Ngai Lam Ho , Roy Ka-Wei Lee , Kwan Hui Lim

Personalization is well studied in search and recommendation, but personalized question answering remains underexplored due to challenges in inferring preferences from long, noisy, implicit contexts and generating responses that are both…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Alireza Salemi , Cheng Li , Mingyang Zhang , Qiaozhu Mei , Zhuowan Li , Spurthi Amba Hombaiah , Weize Kong , Tao Chen , Hamed Zamani , Michael Bendersky

Point-of-interest (POI) recommendation systems aim to predict the next destinations of user based on their preferences and historical check-ins. Existing generative POI recommendation methods usually employ random numeric IDs for POIs,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Dongsheng Wang , Yuxi Huang , Shen Gao , Yifan Wang , Chengrui Huang , Shuo Shang

Phrases are fundamental linguistic units through which humans convey semantics. This study critically examines the capacity of API-based large language models (LLMs) to comprehend phrase semantics, utilizing three human-annotated datasets.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Rui Meng , Ye Liu , Lifu Tu , Daqing He , Yingbo Zhou , Semih Yavuz

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently shown impressive results in reasoning tasks, their application to pedestrian trajectory prediction remains challenging due to two key limitations: insufficient use of visual information and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Sungsik Kim , Janghyun Baek , Jinkyu Kim , Jaekoo Lee

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

When traveling to an unfamiliar city for holidays, tourists often rely on guidebooks, travel websites, or recommendation systems to plan their daily itineraries and explore popular points of interest (POIs). However, these approaches may…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Ngai Lam Ho , Roy Ka-Wei Lee , Kwan Hui Lim

Extracting significant places or places of interest (POIs) using individuals' spatio-temporal data is of fundamental importance for human mobility analysis. Classical clustering methods have been used in prior work for detecting POIs, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-03 Yunlong Wang , Bjoern Sommer , Falk Schreiber , Harald Reiterer

Navigating to a specified object in an unknown environment is a fundamental yet challenging capability of embodied intelligence. However, current methods struggle to balance decision frequency with intelligence, resulting in decisions…

The advent of large language models (LLMs) presents new opportunities for travel demand modeling. However, behavioral misalignment between LLMs and humans presents obstacles for the usage of LLMs, and existing alignment methods are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Tianming Liu , Manzi Li , Yafeng Yin

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