Adapting to user interest drift for POI recommendation

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Yin, Hongzhi
Zhou, Xiaofang
Cui, Bin
Wang, Hao
Zheng, Kai
Nguyen, Quoc Viet Hung
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2016
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Point-of-Interest recommendation is an essential means to help people discover attractive locations, especially when people travel out of town or to unfamiliar regions. While a growing line of research has focused on modeling user geographical preferences for POI recommendation, they ignore the phenomenon of user interest drift across geographical regions, i.e., users tend to have different interests when they travel in different regions, which discounts the recommendation quality of existing methods, especially for out-of-town users. In this paper, we propose a latent class probabilistic generative model Spatial-Temporal LDA (ST-LDA) to learn region-dependent personal interests according to the contents of their checked-in POIs at each region. As the users' check-in records left in the out-of-town regions are extremely sparse, ST-LDA incorporates the crowd's preferences by considering the public's visiting behaviors at the target region. To further alleviate the issue of data sparsity, a social-spatial collective inference framework is built on ST-LDA to enhance the inference of region-dependent personal interests by effectively exploiting the social and spatial correlation information. Besides, based on ST-LDA, we design an effective attribute pruning (AP) algorithm to overcome the curse of dimensionality and support fast online recommendation for large-scale POI data. Extensive experiments have been conducted to evaluate the performance of our ST-LDA model on two real-world and large-scale datasets. The experimental results demonstrate the superiority of ST-LDA and AP, compared with the state-of-the-art competing methods, by making more effective and efficient mobile recommendations.

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IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

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28

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10

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Information and computing sciences

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Yin, H; Zhou, X; Cui, B; Wang, H; Zheng, K; Nguyen, QVH, Adapting to user interest drift for POI recommendation, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 2016, 28 (10), pp. 2566-2581

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