Exploiting geo-social correlations to improve pairwise ranking for point-of-interest recommendation

Recently, as location-based social network (LBSN) rapidly grow, point-of-in-terest (POI) recommendation has become an important way to help people locate interesting places. Nowadays, there have been deep studies conducted on the geographical and social influence in the point-of-interest recommendation model based on the rating prediction. The fact is, however, relying solely on the rating fails to reflect the user's preferences very accurately, because the users are most concerned with the list of ranked point-of-in-terests (POIs) on the actual output of recom-mender systems. In this paper, we propose a co-pairwise ranking model called Geo-Social Bayesian Personalized Ranking model (GSB-PR), which is based on the pairwise ranking with the exploiting geo-social correlations by incorporating the method of ranking learning into the process of POI recommendation. In this model, we develop a novel BPR pairwise ranking assumption by injecting users' geo-social preference. Based on this assumption, the POI recommendation model is reformulated by a three-level joint pairwise ranking model. And the experimental results based on real datasets show that the proposed method in this paper enjoys better recommendation performance compared to other state-of-the-art POI recommendation models.