Disentangled and Personalized Representation Learning for Next Point-of-Interest Recommendation

Next POInt-of-Interest (POI) recommendation predicts a user's next move and facilitates location-based services such as navigation and travel planning. SOTA methods fuse each POI and its contexts (e.g., time, category, and region) into a single representation to model sequential user movement. This hinders the effective utilization of context information, and diverse user preferences are also neglected. To tackle these limitations, we propose Disentangled and Personalized Representation Learning (DPRL) as a novel method for next POI recommendation. DPRL decouples POIs and contexts during representation learning, capturing their sequential regularities independently using separate recurrent neural networks (RNNs). To model the preference of each user, DPRL adopts an aggregation mechanism that integrates dynamic user preferences and spatial-temporal factors into the learned representations. We compare DPRL with 16 state-of-the-art baselines. The results show that DPRL outperforms all baselines and achieves an average accuracy improvement of 10.53% over the best-performing baseline.