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most citedTorchSpatial: A Location Encoding Framework and Benchmark for Spatial Representation Learning

7 citations · 8 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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12 papers

cs.AI2026

Geography According to ChatGPT -- How Generative AI Represents and Reasons about Geography

Krzysztof Janowicz, Gengchen Mai, Rui Zhu +4

Understanding how AI will represent and reason about geography should be a key concern for all of us, as the broader public increasingly interacts with spaces and places through th…

cs.AI2025

GeoBS: Information-Theoretic Quantification of Geographic Bias in AI Models

Zhangyu Wang, Nemin Wu, Qian Cao +8

The widespread adoption of AI models, especially foundation models (FMs), has made a profound impact on numerous domains. However, it also raises significant ethical concerns, incl…

cs.AI2025

Whose Truth? Pluralistic Geo-Alignment for (Agentic) AI

Krzysztof Janowicz, Zilong Liu, Gengchen Mai +5

AI (super) alignment describes the challenge of ensuring (future) AI systems behave in accordance with societal norms and goals. While a quickly evolving literature is addressing b…

cs.CL2025

ELITE: Embedding-Less retrieval with Iterative Text Exploration

Zhangyu Wang, Siyuan Gao, Rong Zhou +2

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved impressive progress in natural language processing, but their limited ability to retain long-term context constrains performance on docum…

cs.CV2025

LocDiff: Identifying Locations on Earth by Diffusing in the Hilbert Space

Zhangyu Wang, Zeping Liu, Jielu Zhang +8

Image geolocalization is a fundamental yet challenging task, aiming at inferring the geolocation on Earth where an image is taken. State-of-the-art methods employ either grid-based…

cs.DB2025

The KnowWhereGraph: A Large-Scale Geo-Knowledge Graph for Interdisciplinary Knowledge Discovery and Geo-Enrichment

Rui Zhu, Cogan Shimizu, Shirly Stephen +25

Global challenges such as food supply chain disruptions, public health crises, and natural hazard responses require access to and integration of diverse datasets, many of which are…

cs.AI2024

The S2 Hierarchical Discrete Global Grid as a Nexus for Data Representation, Integration, and Querying Across Geospatial Knowledge Graphs

Shirly Stephen, Mitchell Faulk, Krzysztof Janowicz +10

Geospatial Knowledge Graphs (GeoKGs) have become integral to the growing field of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence. Initiatives like the U.S. National Science Foundation's Open K…

cs.AI2024

The KnowWhereGraph Ontology

Cogan Shimizu, Shirly Stephe, Adrita Barua +21

KnowWhereGraph is one of the largest fully publicly available geospatial knowledge graphs. It includes data from 30 layers on natural hazards (e.g., hurricanes, wildfires), climate…

cs.LG2024

A Geometry-Aware Algorithm to Learn Hierarchical Embeddings in Hyperbolic Space

Zhangyu Wang, Lantian Xu, Zhifeng Kong +3

Hyperbolic embeddings are a class of representation learning methods that offer competitive performances when data can be abstracted as a tree-like graph. However, in practice, lea…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

MC-GTA: Metric-Constrained Model-Based Clustering using Goodness-of-fit Tests with Autocorrelations

Zhangyu Wang, Gengchen Mai, Krzysztof Janowicz +1

A wide range of (multivariate) temporal (1D) and spatial (2D) data analysis tasks, such as grouping vehicle sensor trajectories, can be formulated as clustering with given metric c…

cs.CV2024★ 7 cited

TorchSpatial: A Location Encoding Framework and Benchmark for Spatial Representation Learning

Nemin Wu, Qian Cao, Zhangyu Wang +12

Spatial representation learning (SRL) aims at learning general-purpose neural network representations from various types of spatial data (e.g., points, polylines, polygons, network…

cs.IT2024

Probing the Information Theoretical Roots of Spatial Dependence Measures

Zhangyu Wang, Krzysztof Janowicz, Gengchen Mai +1

Intuitively, there is a relation between measures of spatial dependence and information theoretical measures of entropy. For instance, we can provide an intuition of why spatial da…