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However, the non-uniform spatio-temporal distribution of user behavior poses significant challenges to recommendation performance. Most existing methods neglect this fundamental issue at the distribution level, while conventional data augmentation strategies fall short in optimizing spatio-temporal distribution properties. To tackle this problem, we propose a spatio-temporal Distribution Calibration framework for next-POI Recommendation (DCal-Rec), which optimizes behavioral sequence distributions through disentangled spatial and temporal operator pools. This is combined with a dual-constraint mechanism that incorporates both distribution and interest information to maintain semantic consistency. Furthermore, a multi-channel contrastive learning paradigm is introduced to jointly optimize the recommendation and contrastive tasks under a unified training objective, thereby improving the model\u2019s generalization capability. 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