arXiv AI

Category-Anchored Large Language Models for Next POI Recommendation

The paper introduces ANCHOR, a category‑anchored framework that improves next point‑of‑interest (POI) recommendation by first estimating category‑level mobility intent and then grounding this intent into a candidate set using category anchors, historical visit memory, and user preferences. A history‑aware reranker selects the final POI by matching candidates with the user’s past mobility patterns and current context. Experiments on three real‑world check‑in datasets demonstrate that ANCHOR consistently outperforms traditional, structure‑enhanced, and LLM‑based baselines, while offering favorable trade‑offs among candidate coverage, ranking quality, and inference efficiency.

arXiv AI
Jun 9

Mobility-Embedded POIs: Learning What A Place Is and How It Is Used from Human Movement

arXiv:2601. 21149v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent progress in geospatial foundation models highlights the importance of learning general-purpose representations for real-world locations, particularly points-of-interest (POIs) where human activity concentrates.

By Maria Despoina Siampou, Shushman Choudhury, Shang-Ling Hsu, Neha Arora, Cyrus Shahabi
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 11

Preserving Item Semantics for Free: Rethinking Token Initialization in LLM-Based Generative Recommendation

arXiv:2608. 07816v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in generative recommendation (GR) leverage large language models (LLMs) as recommender backbones, enabling LLMs to directly generate recommendations conditioned on item-interaction histories.

By Donald Loveland, Liam Collins, Bhuvesh Kumar, Danai Koutra, Neil Shah
arXiv AI
Sep 21

Dual-Interest Sequential Product Recommendation With Multi-Granular SSM

The paper introduces DSRec, a dual‑interest sequential recommendation model that separates item representations into long‑term and short‑term semantic contexts. Long‑term embeddings capture stable preferences through historical aggregation, while short‑term embeddings focus on local session intent modulated by inter‑click time intervals. Each branch is processed by a distinct State Space Model— a full‑sequence Mamba for long‑term modeling and a time‑modulated SSM for short‑term dynamics— and a residual cross‑fusion mechanism aligns the two granularities while preserving their independence. Experiments on public benchmarks show that DSRec outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods.

By Shuiying Liao, P. Y. Mok
arXiv AI
Oct 28

REGER: Modeling inter-item Relations with Semantic IDs for Generative Recommendation

REGER is a unified framework that enhances generative recommendation by explicitly modeling inter-item relations through semantic pretraining, history encoding, and SID generation. It pretrains the model to generate semantic neighbors’ IDs, uses combined global and local attention to capture historical context, and introduces a hierarchical preference decomposition over the SID prefix tree. The approach also distills a discriminative teacher’s full conditional distributions to improve next-token predictions, yielding consistent performance gains on real-world datasets.

By Yuxi Huang, Silin Zhou, Chenhao Wang, Zihan Li, Gangming Guo, Pei Ke, Shen Gao, Shuo Shang
arXiv AI
Jun 11

MobilityBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Route-Planning Agents in Real-World Mobility Scenarios

arXiv:2602. 22638v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Route-planning agents powered by large language models (LLMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm for supporting everyday human mobility through natural language interaction and tool-mediated decision making.

By Zhiheng Song, Jingshuai Zhang, Chuan Qin, Chao Wang, Chao Chen, Longfei Xu, Kaikui Liu, Xiangxiang Chu, Hengshu Zhu
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Oct 27

REGER: Modeling inter-item Relations with Semantic IDs for Generative Recommendation

REGER is a framework that enhances generative recommendation by explicitly modeling inter-item relations through semantic pretraining, refined history encoding, and SID generation. It pretrains the model to generate semantic neighbors’ IDs, uses a combination of global and local attention to capture context, and introduces a hierarchical preference decomposition that allows exact factorization of collaborative preferences. The method also distills a discriminative teacher’s full conditional distributions to improve next-token predictions, yielding consistent performance gains on real-world datasets.