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Abstract:Next Point-of-Interest (POI) prediction is a fundamental task in location-based services (LBS), especially critical for large-scale navigation platforms such as AMAP that serve billions of users in diverse lifestyle scenarios. Although recent POI recommendation approaches based on SIDs have achieved promising performance, they struggle in complex, sparse real-world environments due to two key limitations: (1) inadequate modeling of high-quality SIDs that capture cross-category spatio-temporal collaborative relationships, and (2) poor alignment between large language models (LLMs) and the POI recommendation task. To this end, we propose GeoGR, a geographic generative recommendation framework tailored for navigation-based LBS like AMAP, which perceives changes in users' contextual states and enables spatio-temporal aware POI recommendation. GeoGR features a two-stage design: (i) a geo-aware SID tokenization pipeline that explicitly learns spatio-temporal collaborative semantic representations via geographically constrained co-visited POI pairs, contrastive semantic representation learning, and iterative refinement; and (ii) a multi-stage LLM training strategy that aligns non-native SID tokens through continued pre-training with multiple prompt templates and enables autoregressive POI generation via supervised fine-tuning. Extensive experiments on multiple real-world datasets demonstrate GeoGR superiority over state-of-the-art baselines. Moreover, the deployment on the large-scale AMAP platform over three months, serving millions of users and delivering significant online gains of +2.91% in WINRATE and +5.55% in PV_CTR, confirms its practical effectiveness and scalability in production.

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From: Fangye Wang [view email]
[v1] Wed, 11 Feb 2026 01:48:27 UTC (785 KB)
[v2] Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:56:03 UTC (1,294 KB)