arXiv AI

Learning Administrative Boundary-Aware Location Encoders via Reverse Geocoding

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 27

GTPred: Benchmarking MLLMs for Interpretable Geo-localization and Time-of-capture Prediction

GTPred is a new benchmark for geo‑temporal prediction that evaluates multi‑modal large language models (MLLMs) on 370 images taken across 120 years worldwide. It assesses predictions by matching both the year and a hierarchical location sequence, and includes annotated reasoning chains to test intermediate reasoning. Experiments on 15 MLLMs show that while visual perception is strong, models still lack world knowledge and geo‑temporal reasoning, and that adding temporal data improves location inference.

By Jinnao Li, Tingzhu Chen, Changbo Wang
arXiv AI
Sep 7

IPGeoAI: Transformer-Based Geolocation with LLM Semantic Fusion

IPGeoAI is a transformer-based deep learning model that transforms IP geolocation from a static lookup into a sequential modeling task. It captures hierarchical dependencies in IP subnet structures and resolves geographic ambiguity by fusing unstructured semantic context extracted from Autonomous System descriptions via a zero‑shot LLM feature extraction pipeline. Extensive offline evaluation on a proprietary dataset of 200,000 cities shows IPGeoAI outperforms a leading vendor, achieving a 6% improvement in city‑level accuracy and 100% traffic coverage, while online production tests demonstrate a statistically significant +0.35% improvement in first‑tier downstream use‑case metrics.

By Avinash Kadimisetty, Andy Jinqing Yu, Philip Favaloro, Wenlong Liu, Xiaolu Xiong
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 29

Do Location Encoders Capture Spatial Effects? A GeoShapley Benchmark Across Scales

Location encoders transform geographic coordinates into high‑dimensional embeddings for machine learning, yet it is unclear how well these embeddings capture interpretable spatial effects. This study benchmarks GeoShapley—a game‑theoretic explainer treating all location features as a single joint player—against eleven TorchSpatial encoders on a synthetic process with known coefficients, across grid, county, and global scales, with and without raw coordinates and under different training regimes. The results show that primary coefficient recovery is consistently high across encoders, while secondary coefficient recovery varies more with scale, especially at the global level, and raw‑coordinate baselines remain competitive throughout.

By Daniel Kiv, Shaowen Wang
arXiv AI
Aug 19

MoRA: Mobility as the Backbone for Geospatial Representation Learning at Scale

MoRA is a human‑centric geospatial representation learning framework that uses a large mobility graph as its backbone to fuse spatial tokenization, graph neural networks, and asymmetric contrastive learning. It aligns over 100 million points of interest, massive remote sensing imagery, and structured demographic data with a billion‑edge mobility graph, producing compact 128‑dimensional embeddings that capture socio‑economic context and functional roles of locations. On a benchmark of nine downstream social and economic prediction tasks, MoRA outperforms state‑of‑the‑art models by an average of 12.9% and demonstrates scaling behavior analogous to large language models.

By Ya Wen, Jixuan Cai, Qiyao Ma, Linyan Li, Xinhua Chen, Chris Webster, Yulun Zhou
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

GeoFlow: Geo-Aware Modeling of Inter-Area Relationships in Origin-Destination Flow Prediction and Generation

arXiv:2607. 05257v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Origin-destination (OD) flow modeling underpins urban planning and mobility analysis, but prevailing graph-based methods often neglect salient geographic attributes, limiting their ability to model long-range and multi-area dependencies.

By Zherui Huang, Guanjie Zheng, Hao Xue, Linghe Kong