Research Article

UPTDNet: A User Preference Transfer and Drift Network for Cross-City Next POI Recommendation

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Notations and descriptions.

NotationsDescriptions

, Set of users in home city and current city
, Set of POIs in home city and current city
, Target tourist user from home city and local user in current city
, POI in home city and current city
, , Check-in sequence of target tourist in their home city, target tourist in current city and local in current city
, , , Embedding vector of POI in home city and current city
, , Embedding vector of target tourist in their home city, target tourist in current city and local in current city
, Embedding vector of check-in POI at timestamp in home city and current city
, , , Output hidden state of home city branch, transfer branch, drift branch for home city set and current city set
, Probability of next POI in home city and current city
Probability distributions over user roles
, Check-in frequency vector of user and
, Cosine similarity of embedding vectors and check-in frequency vectors for user and
, , , , , Trainable parameters in model