Location Rating Based on Graph Neural Network

Abstract

With the rapid development of social networks, people are increasingly interested in sharing their location. Location recommendation has become an important personalization service for location-based social networks (LBSN). Location rating is one of the important tools. However, location-based social networks contain multidimensional network structures and node information. Existing approaches mostly focus on network structures that utilize one of these dimensions, which makes it difficult to efficiently aggregate information from multiple dimensions simultaneously. To overcome these difficulties, one of the recent approaches is the social recommendation based on graph neural networks (GNNs). Based on this, this paper proposes a graph neural network framework for location rating. Graph neural networks are highly inductive and can efficiently aggregate network structure and node information. In particular, the method not only aggregates homogeneous social networks composed of user and heterogeneous bipartite graphs composed of user-location, but also constructs location networks using location sequences to propose an aggregation model for location networks. Experiments are conducted on two datasets, and the results show that the method improves on the root mean square error (RMSE) and mean absolute error (MAE) metrics.