Where have you been: Dual spatiotemporal-aware user mobility modeling for missing check-in POI identification. Issue 5 (September 2022)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wu, Junhang; Hu, Ruimin; Li, Dengshi; Ren, Lingfei; Hu, Wenyi; Xiao, Yilin
• Is Part Of: Information processing & management. Volume 59:Issue 5(2022)
• Publication Date: 2022-09
• Subjects: Location-based social networks -- Missing check-in POI identification -- Bi-directional spatiotemporal-aware -- Attention mechanism; Information storage and retrieval systems -- Periodicals; Information science -- Periodicals; Systèmes d'information -- Périodiques; Sciences de l'information -- Périodiques; Information science; Information storage and retrieval systems; Periodicals; 658.4038
• DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2022.103030
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0306-4573

Abstract

Abstract: The prevalence of Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs) services makes next personalized Point-of-Interest (POI) predictions become a trending research topic. However, due to device failure or intention camouflage, geolocation information missing prevents existing POI-oriented researches for advanced user preference analysis. To this end, we propose a novel model named Bi-STAN, which fuses bi-direction spatiotemporal transition patterns and personalized dynamic preferences, to identify where the user has visited at a past specific time, namely missing check-in POI identification. Furthermore, to relieve data sparsity issues, Bi-STAN explicitly exploits spatiotemporal characteristics by doing bilateral traceback to search related items with high predictive power from user mobility traces. Specifically, Bi-STAN introduces (1) a temporal-aware attention semantic category encoder to unveil the latent semantic category transition patterns by modeling temporal periodicity and attenuation; (2) a spatial-aware attention POI encoder to capture the latent POI transition pattern by modeling spatial regularity and proximity; (3) a multitask-oriented decoder to incorporate personalized and temporal variance preference into learned transition patterns for missing check-in POI and category identification. Based on the complementarity and compatibility of multi-task learning, we further develop Bi-STAN with a self-adaptive learning rate for model optimization. Experimental results on two real-world datasets show the effectiveness of our proposed method. Significantly, Bi-STAN can also be adaptively applied to next POI prediction task with outstanding performances.