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SpatialAct: Probing Spatial Reasoning-to-Action Capabilities of VLM Agents in 3D Scenes
Tianhui Liu, Jie Feng, Zhiheng Zheng +6
Humans can effortlessly perceive spatial layouts, form cognitive representations, reason about spatial relations, and translate such reasoning into actions in everyday 3D environme…
Urban mobility network centrality predicts social resilience
Lin Chen, Fengli Xu, Esteban Moro +3
Cities thrive on social interactions that foster well-being, innovation, and prosperity; yet, exogenous shocks such as pandemics, hurricanes, and wildfires can severely disrupt the…
CityRiSE: Reasoning Urban Socio-Economic Status in Large Vision-Language Models via Reinforcement Learning
Tianhui Liu, Hetian Pang, Xin Zhang +3
Urban socio-economic sensing plays a vital role in advancing global sustainable development goals. With the advent of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), new opportunities have e…
Simulating Generative Social Agents via Theory-Informed Workflow Design
Yuwei Yan, Jinghua Piao, Xiaochong Lan +3
Recent advances in large language models have demonstrated strong reasoning and role-playing capabilities, opening new opportunities for agent-based social simulations. However, mo…
Invisible Walls in Cities: Designing LLM Agent to Predict Urban Segregation Experience with Social Media Content
Bingbing Fan, Lin Chen, Songwei Li +4
Understanding experienced segregation in urban daily life is crucial for addressing societal inequalities and fostering inclusivity. The abundance of user-generated reviews on soci…
From Pixels to Progress: Generating Road Network from Satellite Imagery for Socioeconomic Insights in Impoverished Areas
Yanxin Xi, Yu Liu, Zhicheng Liu +3
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to resolve societal challenges, such as eradicating poverty and improving the lives of vulnerable populations in impoverished areas. Th…
Large Language Model-driven Meta-structure Discovery in Heterogeneous Information Network
Lin Chen, Fengli Xu, Nian Li +4
Heterogeneous information networks (HIN) have gained increasing popularity in recent years for capturing complex relations between diverse types of nodes. Meta-structures are propo…
A Satellite Imagery Dataset for Long-Term Sustainable Development in United States Cities
Yanxin Xi, Yu Liu, Tong Li +5
Cities play an important role in achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) to promote economic growth and meet social needs. Especially satellite imagery is a potential data s…
Strategic COVID-19 vaccine distribution can simultaneously elevate social utility and equity
Lin Chen, Fengli Xu, Zhenyu Han +4
Balancing social utility and equity in distributing limited vaccines represents a critical policy concern for protecting against the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic. What is the nature…