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Our research presents “RoBERTaRecIOT,” an innovative model that stands out for its superiority. It utilizes the pre-trained Robustly Optimized Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (RoBERTa) framework to deliver personalized travel recommendations via social media. This model is not just a theoretical concept but a practical solution, proposing an advanced travel route recommendation system that automatically gathers tourists’ onsite behavioral data related to specific POIs, utilizing a smartphone and the Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. It surpasses traditional sequential prediction barriers by integrating bidirectional context, non-symmetric schemas, and sophisticated enhancing user similarity evaluations through topic modeling. Furthermore, we introduce a new preference assessment method employing explicit demographic information, significantly mitigating the effects of the cold start issue. Our empirical studies, utilizing Yelp and Flickr datasets, demonstrate the model’s superiority, surpassing conventional metrics with improved F-Score, MAP, and NDCG values. The “RoBERTaRecIOT” model stands out as a revolutionary instrument in the domain of social media-driven travel recommendations, providing a dynamic and user-focused experience for global adventurers.
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21 December 2024
The original online version of this article was revised: Xiaoyu Zhou should also be marked as a corresponding author.
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A Correction to this paper has been published:https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-024-06857-5
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This work was supported by 2023 Henan Province Science and Technology Research (Grant No. 232102310506), the Science and Technology Foundation of Henan Province of China (Grant No. 222102210250), the Research on Teaching Reform of Henan Polytechnic (Grant No. 2021J058), the Scientific Research of Henan Polytechnic (Grant No. 2022ZK49), and Teaching Reform and Practice Program of Vocational Education in Henan Province (Grant No. [2023] 03049).
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School of Computing and Augmented Intelligence, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
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Yu, D., Zhou, X., Noorian, A.et al. An AI-driven social media recommender system leveraging smartphone and IoT data.J Supercomput81, 272 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-024-06722-5
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