Joint Modeling of User Check-in Behaviors for Point-of-Interest Recommendation

Abstract

Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation has become an important means to help people discover attractive and interesting locations, especially when users travel out of town. However, extreme sparsity of user-POI matrix creates a severe challenge. To cope with this challenge, a growing line of research has exploited the temporal effect, geographical-social influence, content effect and word-of-mouth effect. However, current research lacks an integrated analysis of the joint effect of the above factors to deal with the issue of data-sparsity, especially in the out-of-town recommendation scenario which has been ignored by most existing work.