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New DualClusterNet recommender system personalizes next POI suggestions

Researchers have developed DualClusterNet, a new causal sequential recommender system designed for personalized next point-of-interest (POI) recommendations. This system composes two shared prototype dictionaries to capture both population-level mobility patterns and individual user preferences. It utilizes soft routers to retrieve pattern and spatial mixtures, couples them with a factorized multiplicative interaction, and adapts the representation using feature-wise affine modulation. A user-conditioned branch with an additive-projective gate retains individual variations, and the prediction head combines this with a learned transition term to rank potential POIs. AI

IMPACT This new recommendation system could improve personalized place discovery in location-based services.

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New DualClusterNet recommender system personalizes next POI suggestions

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Linghe Kong ·

    DualClusterNet: Personalized Pattern-Space Composition for Next-POI Recommendation

    Next point-of-interest (POI) recommendation supports personalized place discovery on location-based Web platforms. Mobility routines can recur across users while being realized at different places and adapted to individual preferences. We present DualClusterNet, a causal sequenti…