Fine-Grained User Location Prediction using Meta-Path Context with Attention Mechanism

Abstract

The prevalence of Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs) significantly improves the location-aware capability of services by providing Geo-tagged information. Relied on a great number of user check-in data in the location-based social networks, their essential mobility modes are able to be comprehensively studied, which is basic for forecasting the next venue where a specific user is going to visit considering his relevant historical check-in data. Since there exist different kinds of nodes and interactions between nodes, these information could be look upon as a network that is made up of heterogeneous information. In this network a few of different semantic meta paths could be obtained. Enlightened from the competitive advantage of embedding method relied upon meta-path contexts in the heterogeneous information network, we study a joint deep learning scheme exploring different meta-path context information to forecast fine-grained location. In order to capture different semantics in a user-location interaction, we adopt a simple but high-efficient attention method to learn the meta-path importance or weights. In the terms of model optimization, considering we have only positive sample data and there exists intrinsically latent feedback in check-in information, herein a pairwise learning method is utilized for maximizing the margin between visited and invisible venues. Experiment in different data-sets validate the competitive performance of the suggested approach under different assessment criterion.