A top-k POI recommendation approach based on LBSN and multi-graph fusion

POI(Point of Interest) recommendation is a basic and on-going issue in LBSN (Location-based Social Network) services. In this paper, a novel POI recommendation approach which is based on LBSN and multi-graph fusion is proposed. First, we take advantages of the graph neural network to construct user-POI interaction graph based on the rating data of users and construct user social graph based on the user social networks. First-order friends and high-order friends will be considered simultaneously in the user social graph. And then, we present a spectral cluster-based algorithm to gain the latent vector of the POI in location space. After this, the graph neural network is used to learn the information above. Lastly, we predict the score based on the aforementioned information and pick out the top-k POIs with the highest scores to form a recommendation list. Extensive experiments conducted on real datasets demonstrated that the method proposed in this paper can effectively generate the embedding vectors of users and POIs, and can achieve high recommendation accuracy as well.(c) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.