Multi-Perspective Driven Expected Location Preferences for Next POI Recommendations
Abstract
Next point-of-interest (POI) recommendation aims to predict users' next destinations from their mobility trajectories. Nevertheless, accurately capturing user preferences from check-in data remains challenging, as user behaviors are shaped by complex contextual factors and varying visit intentions. Despite substantial progress, existing methods still face two critical limitations. (i) They typically assume that all check-in behaviors faithfully reflect users' intrinsic preferences, overlooking behaviors driven by external contextual factors (e.g., work requirements) that misalign with users' authentic preference space, limiting the ability to understand dynamic user behavior patterns. (ii) Some of the POIs that users check in at may just be the closest available options to their expected visit intentions, rather than places they genuinely prefer. Existing methods neglect users' expected intentions, leading to inaccurate identification of users' authentic preferences. In this paper, we propose a novel next POI recommendation method (MPDC) that leverages Multi-Perspective modeling and Diffusion-based Contrastive learning. From the behavior-aware perspective, a behavior-aware graph prompt module mitigates external contextual influences via bidirectional sequence modeling and a preference filter, while capturing visit preferences. From the spatial-aware perspective, a spatial-aware hyperbolic graph module leverages hyperbolic space to model higher-order, nonlinear geographic patterns, effectively capturing the influence of spatial factors. In addition, a diffusion-based preference contrast module leverages the generative ability of diffusion models to learn latent expected location preferences that reflect user intent under different contextual conditions. Comprehensive experiments across five real-world datasets demonstrate that MPDC significantly outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms. Our code is available at https://github.com/LanPangxiang/LaMDA2026.
Assigned reviewers
| # | Reviewer | Match | Why (closest evidence publications in the taxonomy) | |
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| 1 | Fei Sun 0001 | 59 | 100 XDM: Improving Sequential Deep Matching with Unclicked User Behaviors for Recommender System (2022) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 84 SDM: Sequential Deep Matching Model for Online Large-scale Recommender System (2019) Multi-Behavior and Multi-Interest Sequential Recommendation 74 Intent Preference Decoupling for User Representation on Online Recommender System (2020) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling |
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| 2 | Seongmin Park 0002 | 54 | 100 MUFFIN: Mixture of User-Adaptive Frequency Filtering for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 86 Temporal Linear Item-Item Model for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation 54 Linear Item-Item Models with Neural Knowledge for Session-based Recommendation (2025) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation |
Area chair
| Area chair | Match | |
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| Yanan Niu | 51 |
Area-chair candidates (6)
| Yanan Niu assigned | 51 | 15 papers | |
| Xin Xin 0003 COI: co-author | 51 | 10 papers | |
| Kun Gai | 47 | 5 papers | |
| Leyu Lin | 46 | 15 papers | |
| Maolin Wang 0001 | 44 | 15 papers | |
| Pengyue Jia | 43 | 10 papers |
Candidates from the panel ranked by match score
| # | Reviewer | Match | Load | Why | |
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| 1 | Bo Peng 0009 | 63 | 3 | 100 $\mathop {\mathtt {HAM}}$HAM: Hybrid Associations Models for Sequential Recommendation (2022) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 100 HAM: Hybrid Associations Models for Sequential Recommendation (Extended abstract) (2023) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling |
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| 2 | Fei Sun 0001 assigned | 59 | 3 | 100 XDM: Improving Sequential Deep Matching with Unclicked User Behaviors for Recommender System (2022) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 84 SDM: Sequential Deep Matching Model for Online Large-scale Recommender System (2019) Multi-Behavior and Multi-Interest Sequential Recommendation |
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| 3 | Jianling Wang | 56 | 3 | 100 Recurrent Recommendation with Local Coherence (2019) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 74 Sequential Recommendation for Cold-start Users with Meta Transitional Learning (2021) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling |
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| 4 | Seongmin Park 0002 assigned | 54 | 3 | 100 MUFFIN: Mixture of User-Adaptive Frequency Filtering for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 86 Temporal Linear Item-Item Model for Sequential Recommendation (2025) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation |
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| 6 | Bowen Zheng 0005 | 51 | 3 | 100 Reciprocal Sequential Recommendation (2023) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 56 Enhancing Sequential Recommender with Large Language Models for Joint Video and Comment Recommendation (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation |
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| 8 | Wei Guo 0006 | 49 | 3 | 76 Dataset Regeneration for Sequential Recommendation (2024) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation 67 FuXi-γ: Efficient Sequential Recommendation with Exponential-Power Temporal Encoder and Diagonal-Sparse Positional Mechanism (2026) Efficient Sequential Recommendation Architectures |
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| 9 | Lantao Hu | 49 | 3 | 80 Modeling User Fatigue for Sequential Recommendation (2024) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation 59 MODEM: Decoupling User Behavior for Shared-Account Video Recommendations on Large Screen Devices (2024) Graph Contrastive and Self-Supervised Learning |
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| 10 | Qiang Luo 0004 | 49 | 3 | 100 FIM: Frequency-Aware Multi-View Interest Modeling for Local-Life Service Recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 55 MPFormer: Adaptive Framework for Industrial Multi-Task Personalized Sequential Retriever (2025) Multi-Task and Multi-Objective Optimization |
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| 11 | Yang Song 0008 | 48 | 3 | 69 Understanding and Modeling Passive-Negative Feedback for Short-video Sequential Recommendation (2023) Multi-Behavior Recommendation 67 Learning and Optimization of Implicit Negative Feedback for Industrial Short-video Recommender System (2023) Multi-Behavior and Multi-Interest Sequential Recommendation |
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| 12 | Shuchang Liu 0001 | 48 | 3 | 57 Sequential Recommendation for Optimizing Both Immediate Feedback and Long-term Retention (2024) Multi-Behavior and Multi-Interest Sequential Recommendation 54 Comprehensive List Generation for Multi-Generator Reranking (2025) Recommendation with Search and Ranking |
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| 13 | Xiao Zhang 0034 | 47 | 3 | 100 Test-Time Alignment with State Space Model for Tracking User Interest Shifts in Sequential Recommendation (2025) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 57 When Search Meets Recommendation: Learning Disentangled Search Representation for Recommendation (2023) Recommendation with Search and Ranking |
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| 14 | James Caverlee | 47 | 3 | 74 Sequential Recommendation for Cold-start Users with Meta Transitional Learning (2021) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 66 Consistency-Aware Recommendation for User-Generated Item List Continuation (2020) Multimodal Recommendation for Domain Applications |
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| 16 | Zhengyi Yang 0007 | 47 | 3 | 54 A Generic Learning Framework for Sequential Recommendation with Distribution Shifts (2023) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation 51 LLaRA: Large Language-Recommendation Assistant (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation |
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| 17 | Yongjing Hao | 46 | 3 | 62 Feature-Level Deeper Self-Attention Network With Contrastive Learning for Sequential Recommendation (2023) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation 61 Tell Me Where to Go Next: Improving POI Recommendation via Conversation (2021) Conversational Recommendation Systems |
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| 18 | Riwei Lai | 46 | 3 | 67 Proxy-Aware Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation (2023) Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation 55 Proxy-enhanced cross-domain sequential recommendation (2025) Cross-Domain and Cross-Market Sequential Recommendation |
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| 19 | Noveen Sachdeva | 46 | 3 | 100 Explicit Modelling of the Implicit Short Term User Preferences for Music Recommendation (2018) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 54 Attentive neural architecture incorporating song features for music recommendation (2018) Sequential Recommendation with Side and Multimodal Information |
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| 20 | Chunyang Wang 0001 | 46 | 3 | 74 MESA: Plugin Meta-Modulation for Transformer-Based Cold-Start Sequential Recommendation (2026) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 61 Learning Graph-based Disentangled Representations for Next POI Recommendation (2022) Sequential and Session-Based Graph Recommendation |
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| 21 | Jinxin Hu | 46 | 3 | 100 SASNet: Stage-aware Sequential Matching for Online Travel Recommendation (2022) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 50 CSMF: Cascaded Selective Mask Fine-Tuning for Multi-Objective Embedding-Based Retrieval (2025) Recommendation with Search and Ranking |
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| 22 | Jin Chen 0008 | 46 | 3 | 69 Enhancing Multi-Behavior Sequential Recommenders with Behavior-Aware Regularization (2025) Multi-Behavior Recommendation 52 RecStudio: Towards a Highly-Modularized Recommender System (2023) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation |
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| 23 | Chongming Gao | 46 | 3 | 52 KuaiRec: A Fully-observed Dataset and Insights for Evaluating Recommender Systems (2022) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation 49 On the Theories Behind Hard Negative Sampling for Recommendation (2023) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation |
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| 25 | Chen Wang 0052 | 45 | 3 | 65 Cluster-Aware Item Prompt Learning for Session-Based Recommendation (2025) LLM-Enhanced Sequential Recommendation 63 Sequential Recommendation with Auxiliary Item Relationships via Multi-Relational Transformer (2022) Graph-Based Sequential and Session Recommendation |
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| 26 | Yuta Saito | 45 | 3 | 49 Off-Policy Evaluation of Ranking Policies under Diverse User Behavior (2023) Recommendation with Search and Ranking 48 Evaluating the Robustness of Off-Policy Evaluation (2021) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation |
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| 27 | Mengyuan Jing | 45 | 3 | 100 Intent-Aware Cross Attention for Next POI Recommendation (2024) Sequential Recommendation with User Modeling and Profiling 81 Recognizing Semantics-Consistent Subsequences for Sequential Recommendation (2023) Graph-Based Sequential and Session Recommendation |
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| 28 | Bo Chen 0023 | 45 | 3 | 56 ReLLa: Retrieval-enhanced Large Language Models for Lifelong Sequential Behavior Comprehension in Recommendation (2024) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation 55 Full-Stack Optimized Large Language Models for Lifelong Sequential Behavior Comprehension in Recommendation (2026) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation |
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| 29 | Hyunsik Yoo | 45 | 3 | 86 Capturing User Interests from Data Streams for Continual Sequential Recommendation (2026) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation 69 Mixture of Sequence: Theme-Aware Mixture-of-Experts for Long-Sequence Recommendation (2026) Multi-Behavior and Multi-Interest Sequential Recommendation |
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| 30 | Junwei Pan COI: co-author | 44 | 3 | 81 Multi-Sequence Attentive User Representation Learning for Side-information Integrated Sequential Recommendation (2024) Sequential Recommendation with Side and Multimodal Information 50 Empowering Large Language Model for Sequential Recommendation via Multimodal Embeddings and Semantic IDs (2025) Generative Recommendation and Item Tokenization |
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| 31 | Jieming Zhu | 44 | 3 | 60 FANS: Fast Non-Autoregressive Sequence Generation for Item List Continuation (2023) Efficient and Long-Sequence Sequential Recommendation 49 ROMA: Recommendation-Oriented Language Model Adaptation Using Multi-Modal Multi-Domain Item Sequences (2025) Sequential and Session-based Recommendation |
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| 32 | Yongxin Ni | 44 | 3 | 64 Bridging NIP and MLM: A Unified Meta-Learning Framework for Sequential Recommendation (2026) Meta-Learning for Cold-Start Recommendation 53 Global and Personalized Graphs for Heterogeneous Sequential Recommendation by Learning Behavior Transitions and User Intentions (2022) Sequential and Session-Based Graph Recommendation |
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| 33 | Hao Liu 0078 | 44 | 3 | 54 Mitigating Distribution Shifts in Sequential Recommendation: An Invariance Perspective (2025) Contrastive and Self-Supervised Sequential Recommendation 51 WeaveRec: An LLM-Based Cross-Domain Sequential Recommendation Framework with Model Merging (2026) Efficiency and Deployment |
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| 35 | Huifeng Guo | 43 | 3 | 67 FuXi-γ: Efficient Sequential Recommendation with Exponential-Power Temporal Encoder and Diagonal-Sparse Positional Mechanism (2026) Efficient Sequential Recommendation Architectures 52 A Comprehensive Survey on Automated Machine Learning for Recommendations (2024) Recommendation Systems and Evaluation |