Exploring the Context of Locations for Personalized Location Recommendations

Authors: Xin Liu, Yong Liu, Xiaoli Li

IJCAI 2016 | Conference PDF | Archive PDF | Plain Text | LLM Run Details

Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental We conduct comprehensive experiments over four real datasets. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art location recommendation methods.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Xin Liu, Yong Liu and Xiaoli Li Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), A*STAR, Singapore {liu-x, liuyo, xlli}@i2r.a-star.edu.sg
Pseudocode No The paper describes algorithmic steps and equations in paragraph form, but does not contain a clearly labeled "Pseudocode" or "Algorithm" block.
Open Source Code No The paper mentions "word2vec1" with a footnote linking to "https://code.google.com/p/word2vec/", but this refers to a third-party tool used, not the authors' own implementation code for the described methodology.
Open Datasets Yes The evaluation is conducted over real-world location-based social network data [Liu et al., 2014] collected from Gowalla 2. The data contains users check-in information, including geographical coordinates, time stamps, etc. generated before June 1, 2011 in 4 US cities: Austin, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston. Table 1 summarizes the statistics of the data, where Nu, Nl, and Nc denote the number of users, locations, and check-ins respectively. Moreover, the category information of each observed location has also been collected. Locations in Gowalla are classified into 7 main categories: community, entertainment, food, nightlife, outdoors, shopping, and travel. 2http://www.yongliu.org/datasets.
Dataset Splits No The paper mentions a train/test split: "For each method, we use the check-in data before March 28th, 2011 (around 80% of all check-ins) to train the models, and the rest data is used for testing." However, it does not specify a separate validation set.
Hardware Specification No The paper does not provide specific hardware details such as GPU or CPU models, processor types, or memory used for running its experiments.
Software Dependencies No The paper mentions the use of 'word2vec' but does not specify any version numbers for this or any other software libraries or dependencies used in the implementation.
Experiment Setup Yes For WRMF, we set the latent factor vector dimensionality, , and regularization parameter to 150, 10, and 0.01 respectively; for PTMF, category level 2 is considered, latent factor vector dimensionality, learning rate, and regularization parameters are set to 5, 0.0001, and 0.01 respectively. For SG-CWARP, the latent factor vector dimensionality, , regularization parameters are set to 200, 1, and 0.01 respectively; we also set optimal context window size for different datasets. For Temp MF, we set the latent factor vector dimensionality, learning rate, user-preference parameter, location-characteristic parameter, and the time regularization parameter to 10, 0.0001, 2, 2, and 1 respectively.