arXiv:2609.05721v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Understanding whether language-model embeddings encode structured real-world information is important for both representation analysis and information...
By Esteban Feuerstein, Victoria Klimkowski, Juan Manuel Ortiz de Zarate, Federico Hern\'an Suaiter
arXiv:2606. 24997v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Geographic implicit neural representations (INRs) learn to map any coordinate on Earth to a location embedding, implicitly encoding geospatial data into the weights of a neural network.
By Livia Betti, Sebastian Ricke, Ivica Obadic, Adam J. Stewart, Esther Rolf
arXiv:2606. 07172v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Geospatial understanding is a critical yet underexplored dimension in the development of machine learning systems for tasks such as image geolocation and spatial reasoning.
By Marcelo Sartori Locatelli, Fernando Tonucci, Jea Kwon, Luiz Felipe Vecchietti, Bryan Nathanael Wijaya, Cheng Yaw Low, Virgilio Almeida, Meeyoung Cha
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:2601. 21149v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent progress in geospatial foundation models highlights the importance of learning general-purpose representations for real-world locations, particularly points-of-interest (POIs) where human activity concentrates.
By Maria Despoina Siampou, Shushman Choudhury, Shang-Ling Hsu, Neha Arora, Cyrus Shahabi
arXiv:2606.08918v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Worldwide image geo-localization aims to determine where on Earth a single image was captured. However, visually similar scenes may lie thousands o...
By Junchao Cui, Xuanzi Ma, Wenqi Shi, Nan Wu, Biru Zhu, Xiangyang Luo
LE4Mob is a new location embedding framework that learns inductive, distance‑aware representations from geographic context, enabling it to encode unseen locations and preserve spatial relationships. It builds on contrastive language‑location pre‑training and adds a regularisation objective that encourages the embedding space to reflect geographic distance. Experiments on next‑location prediction and commuter flow generation across multiple datasets show that LE4Mob outperforms strong baselines, especially in inductive settings and when downstream models use direct interactions between location embeddings.
By Xinglei Wang, Stephen Law, Zichao Zeng, Junyuan Liu, Guangsheng Dong, Tao Cheng
MoRAX is a lightweight framework that augments geospatial foundation model embeddings with functional structure derived from human mobility data. By incorporating mobility flows, MoRAX preserves the coverage and consistency of existing geospatial models while adding information about functional connectivity among urban regions, enabling zero‑shot deployment in unseen cities. Experiments across four cities in two countries show that the MoRAX teacher model outperforms baseline geospatial models on eight socioeconomic and environmental prediction tasks, and the student model—without direct mobility input—approaches the teacher’s performance.
By Ya Wen, Jixuan Cai, Yulun Zhou, Alec Kirkley
arXiv:2608. 07411v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the context of geodata, existing Large Language Models have often been studied in a homogeneous setting, which has considerably limited insights into their generalization capabilities.
By Rodrigo Ferreira Rodrigues, Karim Radouane, Jose G Moreno, Lynda Tamine
arXiv:2507. 02921v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning effective representations of urban environments requires capturing spatial structure beyond fixed administrative boundaries.
By Mohammad Hashemi, Hossein Amiri, Andreas Zufle
arXiv:2512.18225v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: This paper presents an applied AI pipeline for real-time geolocation from noisy microblog streams, unifying statistical hashtag segmentation, part-...
By Deepit Sapru
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