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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

Next point-of-interest (POI) recommendation aims to offer suggestions on which POI to visit next, given a user's POI visit history. This problem has a wide application in the tourism industry, and it is gaining an increasing interest as…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Qianyu Guo , Jianzhong Qi

Location recommendation is defined as to recommend locations (POIs) to users in location-based services. The existing data-driving approaches of location recommendation suffer from the limitation of the implicit modeling of the geographical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Chang Liu , Chen Gao , Depeng Jin , Yong Li

Currently, considerable strides have been achieved in Point-of-Interest (POI) embedding methodologies, driven by the emergence of novel POI tasks like recommendation and classification. Despite the success of task-specific, end-to-end…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Xiaobin Ren , Xinyu Zhu , Kaiqi Zhao

Answering real-world geospatial questions--such as finding restaurants along a travel route or amenities near a landmark--requires reasoning over both geographic relationships and semantic user intent. However, existing large language…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Dazhou Yu , Riyang Bao , Ruiyu Ning , Jinghong Peng , Gengchen Mai , Liang Zhao

Next POI recommendation intends to forecast users' immediate future movements given their current status and historical information, yielding great values for both users and service providers. However, this problem is perceptibly complex…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Song Yang , Jiamou Liu , Kaiqi Zhao

Gaussian Process (GP) models are widely used for Robotic Information Gathering (RIG) in exploring unknown environments due to their ability to model complex phenomena with non-parametric flexibility and accurately quantify prediction…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Weizhe Chen , Lantao Liu , Roni Khardon

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

Current study on next POI recommendation mainly explores user sequential transitions with the fine-grained individual-user POI check-in trajectories only, which suffers from the severe check-in data sparsity issue. In fact, coarse-grained…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Zhu Sun , Yu Lei , Lu Zhang , Chen Li , Yew-Soon Ong , Jie Zhang

As an indispensable personalized service in Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs), the next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation aims to help people discover attractive and interesting places. Currently, most POI recommenders are based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Jing Long , Tong Chen , Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung , Guandong Xu , Kai Zheng , Hongzhi Yin

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

The popularity of location-based social networks (LBSNs) has led to a tremendous amount of user check-in data. Recommending points of interest (POIs) plays a key role in satisfying users' needs in LBSNs. While recent work has explored the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Mohammad Aliannejadi , Dimitrios Rafailidis , Fabio Crestani

The rapid expansion of Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) has highlighted the importance of effective next Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendations, which leverage historical check-in data to predict users' next POIs to visit.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Jing Long , Guanhua Ye , Tong Chen , Yang Wang , Meng Wang , Hongzhi Yin

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

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

Worldwide image geolocalization aims to predict precise GPS coordinates for images captured anywhere on Earth, which is challenging due to the large visual and geographic diversity. Recent methods mainly follow two paradigms:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Pengyue Jia , Derong Xu , Yingyi Zhang , Xiaopeng Li , Wenlin Zhang , Yi Wen , Yuanshao Zhu , Xiangyu Zhao

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

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become foundational tools in artificial intelligence, supporting a wide range of applications beyond traditional natural language processing, including urban systems and tourist recommendations. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Maddalena Amendola , Chiara Pugliese , Raffaele Perego , Chiara Renso

Decision-makers in GIS need to combine a series of spatial algorithms and operations to solve geospatial tasks. For example, in the task of facility siting, the Buffer tool is usually first used to locate areas close or away from some…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Yifan Zhang , Cheng Wei , Shangyou Wu , Zhengting He , Wenhao Yu

With the rapid development of location-based social networks (LBSNs), spatial item recommendation has become an important means to help people discover attractive and interesting venues and events, especially when users travel out of town.…

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