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Generative recommendation with large language models (LLMs) reframes prediction as sequence generation, yet existing LLM-based recommenders remain limited in leveraging geographic signals that are crucial in mobility and local-services…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Dongyi Lv , Qiuyu Ding , Heng-Da Xu , Zhaoxu Sun , Zhi Wang , Feng Xiong , Mu Xu

Location recommendation plays a vital role in improving users' travel experience. The timestamp of the POI to be predicted is of great significance, since a user will go to different places at different times. However, most existing methods…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Yan Luo , Haoyi Duan , Ye Liu , Fu-lai Chung

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

Geospatial Location Embedding (GLE) helps a Large Language Model (LLM) assimilate and analyze spatial data. GLE emergence in Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) is precipitated by the need for deeper geospatial awareness in our…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Sean Tucker

As a core task in location-based services (LBS) (e.g., navigation maps), query and point of interest (POI) matching connects users' intent with real-world geographic information. Recently, pre-trained models (PTMs) have made advancements in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Ruixue Ding , Boli Chen , Pengjun Xie , Fei Huang , Xin Li , Qiang Zhang , Yao Xu

The Multi-Modal Large Language Model (MLLM) refers to an extension of the Large Language Model (LLM) equipped with the capability to receive and infer multi-modal data. Spatial awareness stands as one of the crucial abilities of MLLM,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Yongqiang Zhao , Zhenyu Li , Zhi Jin , Feng Zhang , Haiyan Zhao , Chengfeng Dou , Zhengwei Tao , Xinhai Xu , Donghong Liu

A robot in a human-centric environment needs to account for the human's intent and future motion in its task and motion planning to ensure safe and effective operation. This requires symbolic reasoning about probable future actions and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Moritz A. Graule , Volkan Isler

Image geolocalization, in which an AI model traditionally predicts the precise GPS coordinates of an image, is a challenging task with many downstream applications. However, the user cannot utilize the model to further their knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Ron Campos , Ashmal Vayani , Parth Parag Kulkarni , Rohit Gupta , Aizan Zafar , Aritra Dutta , Mubarak Shah

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

The rapid proliferation of Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) has underscored the importance of Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation systems in enhancing user experiences. While individual POI recommendation methods leverage users'…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jing Long , Liang Qu , Junliang Yu , Tong Chen , Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen , Hongzhi Yin

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

Large Language Models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, demonstrate a strong understanding of human natural language and have been explored and applied in various fields, including reasoning, creative writing, code generation, translation, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Zhenlong Li , Huan Ning

Accurate human mobility prediction underpins many important applications across a variety of domains, including epidemic modelling, transport planning, and emergency responses. Due to the sparsity of mobility data and the stochastic nature…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Xinglei Wang , Meng Fang , Zichao Zeng , Tao Cheng

Recommender systems in location based social networks mainly take advantage of social and geographical influence in making personalized Points-of-interest (POI) recommendations. The social influence is obtained from social network friends…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-28 Billy Zimba , Samson Chibuta , David Chisanga , Fredah Banda , Jackson Phiri

Nowadays voice search for points of interest (POI) is becoming increasingly popular. However, speech recognition for local POI has remained to be a challenge due to multi-dialect and massive POI. This paper improves speech recognition…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-08 Songjun Cao , Yike Zhang , Xiaobing Feng , Long Ma

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

While pretrained language models (PLMs) have been shown to possess a plethora of linguistic knowledge, the existing body of research has largely neglected extralinguistic knowledge, which is generally difficult to obtain by pretraining on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Valentin Hofmann , Goran Glavaš , Nikola Ljubešić , Janet B. Pierrehumbert , Hinrich Schütze

This research focuses on assessing the ability of AI foundation models in representing the trajectories of movements. We utilize one of the large language models (LLMs) (i.e., GPT-J) to encode the string format of trajectories and then…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yuhan Ji , Song Gao

Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation plays a crucial role in location-based services by predicting users' future mobility patterns. Existing methods typically compute a single user representation from historical trajectories and use…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Zhenyu Yu , Chunlei Meng , Yangchen Zeng , Mohd Yamani Idna Idris , Shuigeng Zhou

Spatiotemporal relationships are critical in data science, as many prediction and reasoning tasks require analysis across both spatial and temporal dimensions--for instance, navigating an unfamiliar city involves planning itineraries that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Xiao Han , Dayan Pan , Xiangyu Zhao , Xuyuan Hu , Zhaolin Deng , Xiangjie Kong , Guojiang Shen