Inferring continuous latent preference on transition intervals for next point-of-interest recommendation

Jing He, Xin Li*, Lejian Liao, Mingzhong Wang

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Abstract

Temporal information plays an important role in Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendations. Most existing studies model the temporal influence by utilizing the observed check-in time stamps explicitly. With the conjecture that transition intervals between successive check-ins may carry more information for diversified behavior patterns, we propose a probabilistic factor analysis model to incorporate three components, namely, personal preference, distance preference, and transition interval preference. They are modeled by an observed third-rank transition tensor, a distance constraint, and a continuous latent variable, respectively. In our framework, the POI recommendation and the transition interval for user’s very next move can be inferred simultaneously by maximizing the posterior probability of the overall transitions. Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm is used to tune the model parameters. We demonstrate that the proposed methodology achieves substantial gains in terms of prediction on next move and its expected time over state-of-the-art baselines. Code related to this paper is available at: https://github.com/skyhejing/ECML-PKDD-2018.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMachine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases - European Conference, ECML PKDD 2018, Proceedings
EditorsFrancesco Bonchi, Michele Berlingerio, Thomas Gärtner, Neil Hurley, Georgiana Ifrim
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages741-756
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9783030109271
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019
EventEuropean Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML-PKDD 2018 - Dublin, Ireland
Duration: 10 Sept 201814 Sept 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11052 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceEuropean Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML-PKDD 2018
Country/TerritoryIreland
CityDublin
Period10/09/1814/09/18

Keywords

  • Point-of-Interest
  • Probabilistic factor analysis model
  • Recommendation

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