Joint Geo-Spatial Preference and Pairwise Ranking for Point-of-Interest Recommendation

Yuan, F., Jose, J. M. , Guo, G., Chen, L., Yu, H. and Alkhawaldeh, R. S. (2017) Joint Geo-Spatial Preference and Pairwise Ranking for Point-of-Interest Recommendation. In: 28th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI 2016), San Jose, CA, USA, 6-8 Nov 2016, pp. 46-53. ISBN 9781509044597 (doi: 10.1109/ICTAI.2016.0018)

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Abstract

Recommending users with preferred point-of-interests (POIs) has become an important task for location-based social networks, which facilitates users' urban exploration by helping them filter out unattractive locations. Although the influence of geographical neighborhood has been studied in the rating prediction task (i.e. regression), few work have exploited it to develop a ranking-oriented objective function to improve top-N item recommendations. To solve this task, we conduct a manual inspection on real-world datasets, and find that each individual's traits are likely to cluster around multiple centers. Hence, we propose a co-pairwise ranking model based on the assumption that users prefer to assign higher ranks to the POIs near previously rated ones. The proposed method can learn preference ordering from non-observed rating pairs, and thus can alleviate the sparsity problem of matrix factorization. Evaluation on two publicly available datasets shows that our method performs significantly better than state-of-the-art techniques for the top-N item recommendation task.

Item Type:Conference Proceedings
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Jose, Professor Joemon and Chen, Dr Long and Alkhawaldeh, Mr Rami Suleiman and Yu, Dr Haitao
Authors: Yuan, F., Jose, J. M., Guo, G., Chen, L., Yu, H., and Alkhawaldeh, R. S.
College/School:College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
ISSN:2375-0197
ISBN:9781509044597
Copyright Holders:Copyright © 2016 IEEE
Publisher Policy:Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher
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