POI Recommendation with LLM-Augmented Multi-Graph Learning and Contrastive Alignment
This study addresses the cold-start challenge caused by interaction sparsity in POI recommendation by proposing the LLM-MGCL framework. This approach integrates large language model semantics with geospatial information to construct auxiliary graphs, employing bidirectional contrastive learning to align behavioral, semantic, and spatial views. Such alignment effectively compensates for missing collaborative filtering signals and enhances graph neural network representations. Evaluations on the Yelp dataset demonstrate that LLM-MGCL outperforms LightGCN, achieving improvements of 52.0% in Recall@20 and 64.8% in NDCG@20. These results significantly surpass traditional baselines, validating the effectiveness of combining multimodal knowledge augmentation with contrastive learning to mitigate cold-start issues in location-based recommendation systems.