Trust-based core social graph convolution: an innovative framework for location recommendation

With the increasing popularity of location-based social networks (LBSNs), recommendation based on LBSNs has attracted wide attention in academic and industrial domains. Traditional recommendation systems face critical challenges in handling data sparsity and underutilized social trust. Existing trad...

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Main Authors: Xie, Tianyu (Author) , Chen, Yunliang (Author) , Wu, Yong (Author) , Cui, Ningning (Author) , Chen, Haofeng (Author) , Lu, Xuanyu (Author) , Huang, Xiaohui (Author) , Wang, Yuewei (Author) , Li, Jianxin (Author)
Format: Article (Journal)
Language:English
Published: 1 August 2025
In: Expert systems with applications
Year: 2025, Volume: 285, Pages: 1-18
DOI:10.1016/j.eswa.2025.127899
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Author Notes:Tianyu Xie, Yunliang Chen, Yong Wu, Ningning Cui, Haofeng Chen, Xuanyu Lu, Xiaohui Huang, Yuewei Wang, Jianxin Li

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