Geo-teaser: Geo-temporal sequential embedding rank for point-of-interest recommendation
Proceedings of the 26th international conference on world wide web companion, 2017•dl.acm.org
Point-of-interest (POI) recommendation is an important application for location-based social
networks (LBSNs), which learns the user preference and mobility pattern from check-in
sequences to recommend POIs. Previous studies show that modeling the sequential pattern
of user check-ins is necessary for POI recommendation. Markov chain model, recurrent
neural network, and the word2vec framework are used to model check-in sequences in
previous work. However, all previous sequential models ignore the fact that check-in …
networks (LBSNs), which learns the user preference and mobility pattern from check-in
sequences to recommend POIs. Previous studies show that modeling the sequential pattern
of user check-ins is necessary for POI recommendation. Markov chain model, recurrent
neural network, and the word2vec framework are used to model check-in sequences in
previous work. However, all previous sequential models ignore the fact that check-in …
Point-of-interest (POI) recommendation is an important application for location-based social networks (LBSNs), which learns the user preference and mobility pattern from check-in sequences to recommend POIs. Previous studies show that modeling the sequential pattern of user check-ins is necessary for POI recommendation. Markov chain model, recurrent neural network, and the word2vec framework are used to model check-in sequences in previous work. However, all previous sequential models ignore the fact that check-in sequences on different days naturally exhibit the various temporal characteristics, for instance, "work" on weekday and "entertainment" on weekend. In this paper, we take this challenge and propose a Geo-Temporal sequential embedding rank (Geo-Teaser) model for POI recommendation. Inspired by the success of the word2vec framework to model the sequential contexts, we propose a temporal POI embedding model to learn POI representations under some particular temporal state. The temporal POI embedding model captures the contextual check-in information in sequences and the various temporal characteristics on different days as well. Furthermore, We propose a new way to incorporate the geographical influence into the pairwise preference ranking method through discriminating the unvisited POIs according to geographical information. Then we develop a geographically hierarchical pairwise preference ranking model. Finally, we propose a unified framework to recommend POIs combining these two models. To verify the effectiveness of our proposed method, we conduct experiments on two real-life datasets. Experimental results show that the Geo-Teaser model outperforms state-of-the-art models. Compared with the best baseline competitor, the Geo-Teaser model improves at least 20% on both datasets for all metrics.
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