Social personalized ranking embedding for next POI recommendation

As the increasing popularity of the applications of location-based services, points-of-interest (POI) recommendation has become a great value part to help users explore their surrounding living environment and improve the quality of life. Recently, some researchers proposed next POI recommendation, which not only exploiting the users personal interests but also considers the sequential information of users check-ins. There are some next POI recommendation models exploit Metric Embedding method to improve recommendation performance and efficiency. However, these approaches not consider social relations in next POI recommendation, which is challenging due to social relations are noisy and sparse. To this end, in this paper, we proposed a Social Personalized Ranking Embedding (SPRE) model, which integrates user personalization and social relations into consideration, to learn the social relations by social embedding for next POI recommendation. Our experiments on a real-world large-scale dataset (Foursquare) results show that our model outperforms the state-of-the-art next POI recommendation methods.