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Topic-enhanced memory networks for personalised point-of-interest recommendation
Point-of-Interest (POI) recommender systems play a vital role in people's
lives by recommending unexplored POIs to users and have drawn extensive
attention from both academia and industry. Despite their value, however, they
still suffer from the challenges of capturing complicated user preferences and
fine-grained user-POI relationship for spatio-temporal sensitive POI
recommendation. Existing recommendation algorithms, including both shallow and
deep approaches, usually embed the visiting records of a user into a single
latent vector to model user preferences: this has limited power of
representation and interpretability. In this paper, we propose a novel
topic-enhanced memory network (TEMN), a deep architecture to integrate the
topic model and memory network capitalising on the strengths of both the global
structure of latent patterns and local neighbourhood-based features in a
nonlinear fashion. We further incorporate a geographical module to exploit
user-specific spatial preference and POI-specific spatial influence to enhance
recommendations. The proposed unified hybrid model is widely applicable to
various POI recommendation scenarios. Extensive experiments on real-world
WeChat datasets demonstrate its effectiveness (improvement ratio of 3.25% and
29.95% for context-aware and sequential recommendation, respectively). Also,
qualitative analysis of the attention weights and topic modeling provides
insight into the model's recommendation process and results.China Scholarship Council and Cambridge Trus
Category-Aware Location Embedding for Point-of-Interest Recommendation
Recently, Point of interest (POI) recommendation has gained ever-increasing
importance in various Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs). With the recent
advances of neural models, much work has sought to leverage neural networks to
learn neural embeddings in a pre-training phase that achieve an improved
representation of POIs and consequently a better recommendation. However,
previous studies fail to capture crucial information about POIs such as
categorical information.
In this paper, we propose a novel neural model that generates a POI embedding
incorporating sequential and categorical information from POIs. Our model
consists of a check-in module and a category module. The check-in module
captures the geographical influence of POIs derived from the sequence of users'
check-ins, while the category module captures the characteristics of POIs
derived from the category information. To validate the efficacy of the model,
we experimented with two large-scale LBSN datasets. Our experimental results
demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms state-of-the-art POI
recommendation methods.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure
Kernel-based Substructure Exploration for Next POI Recommendation
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 convenience to discover their interested places to visit based on
previous visits and current status. Most existing methods usually merely
leverage recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to explore sequential influences for
recommendation. Despite the effectiveness, these methods not only neglect
topological geographical influences among POIs, but also fail to model
high-order sequential substructures. To tackle the above issues, we propose a
Kernel-Based Graph Neural Network (KBGNN) for next POI recommendation, which
combines the characteristics of both geographical and sequential influences in
a collaborative way. KBGNN consists of a geographical module and a sequential
module. On the one hand, we construct a geographical graph and leverage a
message passing neural network to capture the topological geographical
influences. On the other hand, we explore high-order sequential substructures
in the user-aware sequential graph using a graph kernel neural network to
capture user preferences. Finally, a consistency learning framework is
introduced to jointly incorporate geographical and sequential information
extracted from two separate graphs. In this way, the two modules effectively
exchange knowledge to mutually enhance each other. Extensive experiments
conducted on two real-world LBSN datasets demonstrate the superior performance
of our proposed method over the state-of-the-arts. Our codes are available at
https://github.com/Fang6ang/KBGNN.Comment: Accepted by the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
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RELINE: Point-of-Interest Recommendations using Multiple Network Embeddings
The rapid growth of users' involvement in Location-Based Social Networks
(LBSNs) has led to the expeditious growth of the data on a global scale. The
need of accessing and retrieving relevant information close to users'
preferences is an open problem which continuously raises new challenges for
recommendation systems. The exploitation of Points-of-Interest (POIs)
recommendation by existing models is inadequate due to the sparsity and the
cold start problems. To overcome these problems many models were proposed in
the literature, but most of them ignore important factors such as: geographical
proximity, social influence, or temporal and preference dynamics, which tackle
their accuracy while personalize their recommendations. In this work, we
investigate these problems and present a unified model that jointly learns
users and POI dynamics. Our proposal is termed RELINE (REcommendations with
muLtIple Network Embeddings). More specifically, RELINE captures: i) the
social, ii) the geographical, iii) the temporal influence, and iv) the users'
preference dynamics, by embedding eight relational graphs into one shared
latent space. We have evaluated our approach against state-of-the-art methods
with three large real-world datasets in terms of accuracy. Additionally, we
have examined the effectiveness of our approach against the cold-start problem.
Performance evaluation results demonstrate that significant performance
improvement is achieved in comparison to existing state-of-the-art methods
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