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The Location-Based Social Networks (LBSN) (e.g., Facebook) have many factors (for instance, ratings, check-in time, etc.) that play a crucial role for the Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendations. Unlike ratings, the reviews can help users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Ramesh Baral , Tao Li

Generative recommendation treats next-item prediction as autoregressive item-identifier generation. Specifically, items are encoded as semantic identifiers (SIDs), which are short coarse-to-fine token sequences whose early tokens capture…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zaiyi Zheng , Guanghui Min , Yaochen Zhu , Liang Wu , Liangjie Hong , Chen Chen , Jundong Li

Generative point-of-interest (POI) recommendation models based on large language models (LLMs) have shown promising results by formulating next POI prediction as a sequence generation task. However, the knowledge encoded in these models…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Qiuyu Ding , Heng-Da Xu , Wei Zhang , Dongyi Lv , Changda Xia , Feng Xiong , Mu Xu

Next point-of-interest (POI) recommendation is a key component of smart urban services, yet it remains challenging under cold-start conditions with sparse user-POI interactions. Recent LLM-based methods address this issue through either…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Jinze Wang , Lu Zhang , Yiyang Cui , Tiehua Zhang , Zhishu Shen , Yuze Liu , Xingjun Ma , Jiong Jin

Leveraging long-term user behavioral patterns is a key trajectory for enhancing the accuracy of modern recommender systems. While generative recommender systems have emerged as a transformative paradigm, they face hurdles in effectively…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Shiteng Cao , Junda She , Ji Liu , Bin Zeng , Chengcheng Guo , Kuo Cai , Qiang Luo , Ruiming Tang , Han Li , Kun Gai , Zhiheng Li , Cheng Yang

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

As an indispensable personalized service within Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs), the Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation aims to assist individuals in discovering attractive and engaging places. However, the accurate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Jing Long , Tong Chen , Guanhua Ye , Kai Zheng , Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung , Hongzhi Yin

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

When using the electronic map, POI retrieval is the initial and important step, whose quality directly affects the user experience. Similarity between user query and POI information is the most critical feature in POI retrieval. An accurate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Ji Zhao , Meiyu Yu , Huan Chen , Boning Li , Lingyu Zhang , Qi Song , Li Ma , Hua Chai , Jieping Ye

Point-of-interest (POI) recommendation is an important application in location-based social networks (LBSNs), which learns the user preference and mobility pattern from check-in sequences to recommend POIs. However, previous POI…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-06-21 Shenglin Zhao , Tong Zhao , Irwin King , Michael R. Lyu

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

In this paper, we focus on the problem of modeling dynamic geo-human interactions in streams for online POI recommendations. Specifically, we formulate the in-stream geo-human interaction modeling problem into a novel deep interactive…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Dongjie Wang , Kunpeng Liu , Hui Xiong , Yanjie Fu

Next point-of-interest (POI) recommendation predicts a user's next destination from historical movements. Traditional models require intensive training, while LLMs offer flexible and generalizable zero-shot solutions but often generate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Kunrong Li , Kwan Hui Lim

We present a novel AI-based ideation assistant and evaluate it in a user study with a group of innovators. The key contribution of our work is twofold: we propose a method of idea exploration in a constrained domain by means of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Thomas Sandholm , Sarah Dong , Sayandev Mukherjee , John Feland , Bernardo A. Huberman

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer new opportunities for the next Point-Of-Interest (POI) prediction task, leveraging their capabilities in semantic understanding of POI trajectories. However, previous LLM-based methods, which are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Lin Zhong , Lingzhi Wang , Xu Yang , Qing Liao

Sequential recommendation systems aim to capture users' evolving preferences from their interaction histories. Recent reasoningenhanced methods have shown promise by introducing deliberate, chain-of-thought-like processes with intermediate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yifan Shao , Peilin Zhou

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

The next Point of Interest (POI) recommendation task is to predict users' immediate next POI visit given their historical data. Location-Based Social Network (LBSN) data, which is often used for the next POI recommendation task, comes with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Peibo Li , Maarten de Rijke , Hao Xue , Shuang Ao , Yang Song , Flora D. Salim

Next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation is a critical task in location-based services, aiming to predict users' next visits based on their check-in histories. While many existing methods leverage Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Yu Lei , Limin Shen , Zhu Sun , Tiantian He , Yew-Soon Ong

Providing user-understandable explanations to justify recommendations could help users better understand the recommended items, increase the system's ease of use, and gain users' trust. A typical approach to realize it is natural language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-01-16 Lei Li , Yongfeng Zhang , Li Chen