Session‐Based Graph Attention POI Recommendation Network

Abstract

Point‐of‐interest (POI) recommendation which aims at predicting the locations that users may be interested in has attracted wide attentions due to the development of Internet of Things and location‐based services. Although collaborative filtering based methods and deep neural network have gain great success in POI recommendation, data sparsity and cold start problem still exist. To this end, this paper proposes session‐based graph attention network (SGANet for short) for POI recommendation by making use of regional information. Specifically, we first extract users’ features from the regional history check‐in data in session windows. Then, we use graph attention network to learn users’ preferences for both POI and regional POI, respectively. We learn the long‐term and short‐term preferences of users by fusing the user embedding and POI ancillary information through gate recurrent unit. Finally, we conduct experiments on two real world location‐based social network datasets Foursquare and Gowalla to verify the effectiveness of the proposed recommendation model and the experiments results show that SGANet outperformed the compared baseline models in terms of recommendation accuracy, especially in sparse data and cold start scenario.