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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

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 a user's next destination based on sequential check-in history and a set of POI candidates. Graph neural networks (GNNs) have demonstrated a remarkable capability in this endeavor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Liang Wang , Shu Wu , Qiang Liu , Yanqiao Zhu , Xiang Tao , Mengdi Zhang , Liang Wang

Being an indispensable component in location-based social networks, next point-of-interest (POI) recommendation recommends users unexplored POIs based on their recent visiting histories. However, existing work mainly models check-in data as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Yang Li , Tong Chen , Yadan Luo , Hongzhi Yin , Zi Huang

With the wide adoption of mobile devices and web applications, location-based social networks (LBSNs) offer large-scale individual-level location-related activities and experiences. Next point-of-interest (POI) recommendation is one of the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-27 Zheng Huang , Jing Ma , Yushun Dong , Natasha Zhang Foutz , Jundong Li

Generative paradigm, especially powered by Large Language Models (LLMs), has emerged as a new solution to the next point-of-interest (POI) recommendation. Pioneering studies usually adopt a two-stage pipeline, starting with a tokenizer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Ke Sun , Mayi Xu

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

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

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

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

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

Point-of-Interest (POI ) recommendation systems have gained popularity for their unique ability to suggest geographical destinations with the incorporation of contextual information such as time, location, and user-item interaction.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Ali Tourani , Hossein A. Rahmani , Mohammadmehdi Naghiaei , Yashar Deldjoo

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

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

Providing timely accessibility reminders of a point-of-interest (POI) plays a vital role in improving user satisfaction of finding places and making visiting decisions. However, it is difficult to keep the POI database in sync with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Yibo Sun , Jizhou Huang , Chunyuan Yuan , Miao Fan , Haifeng Wang , Ming Liu , Bing Qin

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

Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation, which benefits from the proliferation of GPS-enabled devices and location-based social networks (LBSNs), plays an increasingly important role in recommender systems. It aims to provide users with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Wei Ju , Yifang Qin , Ziyue Qiao , Xiao Luo , Yifan Wang , Yanjie Fu , Ming Zhang

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

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

Predicting the next pickup location of individual users is a fundamental problem in intelligent mobility systems, which requires modeling personalized travel behaviors under complex spatiotemporal contexts. Existing methods mainly learn…

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