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Personalized Point of Interest recommendation is very helpful for satisfying users needs at new places. In this article, we propose a tag embedding based method for Personalized Recommendation of Point Of Interest. We model the relationship between tags corresponding to Point Of Interest. The model provides representative embedding corresponds to a tag in a way that related tags will be closer. We model Point of Interest-based on tag embedding and also model the users (user profile) based on the Point Of Interest rated by them. finally, we rank the users candidate Point Of Interest based on cosine similarity between users embedding and Point of Interests embedding. Further, we find the parameters required to model user by discrete optimizing over different measures (like ndcg@5, MRR, ...). We also analyze the result while considering the same parameters for all users and individual parameters for each user. Along with it we also analyze the effect on the result while changing the dataset to model the relationship between tags. Our method also minimizes the privacy leak issue. We used TREC Contextual Suggestion 2016 Phase 2 dataset and have significant improvement over all the measures on the state of the art method. It improves ndcg@5 by 12.8%, p@5 by 4.3%, and MRR by 7.8%, which shows the effectiveness of the method.
User interest modeling is critical for personalized news recommendation. Existing news recommendation methods usually learn a single user embedding for each user from their previous behaviors to represent their overall interest. However, user interest is usually diverse and multi-grained, which is difficult to be accurately modeled by a single user embedding. In this paper, we propose a news recommendation method with hierarchical user interest modeling, named HieRec. Instead of a single user embedding, in our method each user is represented in a hierarchical interest tree to better capture their diverse and multi-grained interest in news. We use a three-level hierarchy to represent 1) overall user interest; 2) user interest in coarse-grained topics like sports; and 3) user interest in fine-grained topics like football. Moreover, we propose a hierarchical user interest matching framework to match candidate news with different levels of user interest for more accurate user interest targeting. Extensive experiments on two real-world datasets validate our method can effectively improve the performance of user modeling for personalized news recommendation.
Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation is an important task in location-based social networks. It facilitates the relation modeling between users and locations. Recently, researchers recommend POIs by long- and short-term interests and achieve success. However, they fail to well capture the periodic interest. People tend to visit similar places at similar times or in similar areas. Existing models try to acquire such kind of periodicity by users mobility status or time slot, which limits the performance of periodic interest. To this end, we propose to learn spatial-temporal periodic interest. Specifically, in the long-term module, we learn the temporal periodic interest of daily granularity, then utilize intra-level attention to form long-term interest. In the short-term module, we construct various short-term sequences to acquire the spatial-temporal periodic interest of hourly, areal, and hourly-areal granularities, respectively. Finally, we apply inter-level attention to automatically integrate multiple interests. Experiments on two real-world datasets demonstrate the state-of-the-art performance of our method.
In this paper, we address the problem of personalized next Point-of-interest (POI) recommendation which has become an important and very challenging task for location-based social networks (LBSNs), but not well studied yet. With the conjecture that, under different contextual scenarios, human exhibits distinct mobility pattern, we attempt here to jointly model the next POI recommendation under the influence of users latent behavior pattern. We propose to adopt a third-rank tensor to model the successive check-in behaviors. By integrating categorical influence into mobility patterns and aggregating users spatial preference on a POI, the proposed model deal with the next new POI recommendation problem by nature. By incorporating softmax function to fuse the personalized Markov chain with latent pattern, we furnish a Bayesian Personalized Ranking (BPR) approach and derive the optimization criterion accordingly. Expectation Maximization (EM) is then used to estimate the model parameters. We further develop a personalized model by taking into account personalized mobility patterns under the contextual scenario to improve the recommendation performance. Extensive experiments on two large-scale LBSNs datasets demonstrate the significant improvements of our model over several state-of-the-art methods.
Personalized news recommendation methods are widely used in online news services. These methods usually recommend news based on the matching between news content and user interest inferred from historical behaviors. However, these methods usually have difficulties in making accurate recommendations to cold-start users, and tend to recommend similar news with those users have read. In general, popular news usually contain important information and can attract users with different interests. Besides, they are usually diverse in content and topic. Thus, in this paper we propose to incorporate news popularity information to alleviate the cold-start and diversity problems for personalized news recommendation. In our method, the ranking score for recommending a candidate news to a target user is the combination of a personalized matching score and a news popularity score. The former is used to capture the personalized user interest in news. The latter is used to measure time-aware popularity of candidate news, which is predicted based on news content, recency, and real-time CTR using a unified framework. Besides, we propose a popularity-aware user encoder to eliminate the popularity bias in user behaviors for accurate interest modeling. Experiments on two real-world datasets show our method can effectively improve the accuracy and diversity for news recommendation.
Visualization recommendation work has focused solely on scoring visualizations based on the underlying dataset and not the actual user and their past visualization feedback. These systems recommend the same visualizations for every user, despite that the underlying user interests, intent, and visualization preferences are likely to be fundamentally different, yet vitally important. In this work, we formally introduce the problem of personalized visualization recommendation and present a generic learning framework for solving it. In particular, we focus on recommending visualizations personalized for each individual user based on their past visualization interactions (e.g., viewed, clicked, manually created) along with the data from those visualizations. More importantly, the framework can learn from visualizations relevant to other users, even if the visualizations are generated from completely different datasets. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach as it leads to higher quality visualization recommendations tailored to the specific user intent and preferences. To support research on this new problem, we release our user-centric visualization corpus consisting of 17.4k users exploring 94k datasets with 2.3 million attributes and 32k user-generated visualizations.