The rapid development of location-based social networks（LBSNs） has provided an unprecedented opportunity for better location-based services through point-of-interest（POI） recommendation. POI recommendation is pers...The rapid development of location-based social networks（LBSNs） has provided an unprecedented opportunity for better location-based services through point-of-interest（POI） recommendation. POI recommendation is personalized, location-aware, and context depended. However, extreme sparsity of user-POI matrix creates a severe challenge. In this paper we propose a textual-geographical-social aware probabilistic matrix factorization method for POI recommendation. Our model is textual-geographical-social aware probabilistic matrix factorization called TGS-PMF, it exploits textual information, geographical information, social information, and incorporates these factors effectively. First, we exploit an aggregated latent Dirichlet allocation（LDA） model to learn the interest topics of users and infer the interest POIs by mining textual information associated with POIs and generate interest relevance score. Second, we propose a kernel estimation method with an adaptive bandwidth to model the geographical correlations and generate geographical relevance score. Third, we build social relevance through the power-law distribution of user social relations to generate social relevance score. Then, our exploit probabilistic matrix factorization model（PMF） to integrate the interest, geographical, social relevance scores for POI recommendation. Finally, we implement experiments on a real LBSN check-in dataset. Experimental results show that TGS-PMF achieves significantly superior recommendation quality compared to other state-of-the-art POI recommendation techniques.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key Project of Scientific and Technical Supporting Programs of China (2014BAH26F00)
文摘The rapid development of location-based social networks（LBSNs） has provided an unprecedented opportunity for better location-based services through point-of-interest（POI） recommendation. POI recommendation is personalized, location-aware, and context depended. However, extreme sparsity of user-POI matrix creates a severe challenge. In this paper we propose a textual-geographical-social aware probabilistic matrix factorization method for POI recommendation. Our model is textual-geographical-social aware probabilistic matrix factorization called TGS-PMF, it exploits textual information, geographical information, social information, and incorporates these factors effectively. First, we exploit an aggregated latent Dirichlet allocation（LDA） model to learn the interest topics of users and infer the interest POIs by mining textual information associated with POIs and generate interest relevance score. Second, we propose a kernel estimation method with an adaptive bandwidth to model the geographical correlations and generate geographical relevance score. Third, we build social relevance through the power-law distribution of user social relations to generate social relevance score. Then, our exploit probabilistic matrix factorization model（PMF） to integrate the interest, geographical, social relevance scores for POI recommendation. Finally, we implement experiments on a real LBSN check-in dataset. Experimental results show that TGS-PMF achieves significantly superior recommendation quality compared to other state-of-the-art POI recommendation techniques.
