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
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: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:2508.04080v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Standard large language model prompting treats geospatial inference as independent, instance-wise prediction, ignoring the fundamental spatial depe...
By Jinfan Tang, Kunming Wu, Xieruifeng Gong, Yuya He, HuJie, Wu Junhui, Yuankai Wu
arXiv:2606. 08046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present OSMGraphCLIP, a CLIP-style geospatial representation model that learns global location embeddings from freely available OpenStreetMap (OSM) data.
By Dimitrios Michail, Eleni Saka, Ioannis Giannopoulos, Ioannis Papoutsis
arXiv:2507. 00028v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The representation of urban trajectory data plays a critical role in effectively analyzing spatial movement patterns.
By Lihuan Li, Hao Xue, Shuang Ao, Yang Song, Flora Salim