An Interactive Multi-Task Learning Framework for Next POI Recommendation with Uncertain Check-ins

An Interactive Multi-Task Learning Framework for Next POI Recommendation with Uncertain Check-ins

Lu Zhang, Zhu Sun, Jie Zhang, Yu Lei, Chen Li, Ziqing Wu, Horst Kloeden, Felix Klanner

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 3551-3557. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2020/491

Studies on next point-of-interest (POI) recommendation mainly seek to learn users' transition patterns with certain historical check-ins. However, in reality, users' movements are typically uncertain (i.e., fuzzy and incomplete) where most existing methods suffer from the transition pattern vanishing issue. To ease this issue, we propose a novel interactive multi-task learning (iMTL) framework to better exploit the interplay between activity and location preference. Specifically, iMTL introduces: (1) temporal-aware activity encoder equipped with fuzzy characterization over uncertain check-ins to unveil the latent activity transition patterns; (2) spatial-aware location preference encoder to capture the latent location transition patterns; and (3) task-specific decoder to make use of the learned latent transition patterns and enhance both activity and location prediction tasks in an interactive manner. Extensive experiments on three real-world datasets show the superiority of iMTL.
Keywords:
Multidisciplinary Topics and Applications: Recommender Systems
Humans and AI: Personalization and User Modeling