GLGRAN: next POI recommendation on global-local graph representation with attention network
摘要
Next point of interest (POI) recommendation tasks are pivotal in location-based social networks (LBSN) service applications. Although recent studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of graph-based methods in next POI recommendation, they fall short in global spatial-temporal information integration and capturing high-level dependencies within user trajectories to model user preferences while also struggling with sparsity. Thus, global-local graph representation with attention network (GLGRAN) is proposed to surmount these challenges. GLGRAN acquires the general and specific user flavor by integrating a global spatial-temporal graph network module to fuse more abundant spatial and temporal information from a global perspective while employing a local graph attention module to capture high-level dependencies from user visits. Furthermore, the sparsity caused by inactive users is attenuated using a multi-task learning module to predict the next POI and G@P areas. Experimental results demonstrate that GLGRAN outperforms the state-of-the-art algorithms in various datasets and metrics.