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most citedGeo-knowledge-guided GPT models improve the extraction of location descriptions from disaster-related social media messages

187 citations · 334 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.AI2026

StraTune: Adaptive Selection of Revision Operators for Self-Evolving LLM Skills

Zeping Liu, Yan Li, Ni Lao +2

Large language models (LLMs) can learn reusable textual skills from execution feedback without updating their parameters, but effectively deciding how to revise these skills remain…

cs.CV2026

PolyTopoBench: A Benchmark for Complex Vector Polygon Generation from Remote Sensing Imagery

Zeping Liu, Ni Lao, Weiwei Sun +5

Vector polygon generation converts visual inputs, e.g., remote sensing (RS) images, into vectorized polygonal geometries, supporting applications such as autonomous driving, vector…

cs.LG2026

Earth System World Model for What-If Simulations: A Case Study for Terrestrial Ecosystems

Zhihao Wang, Ruichen Wang, Ruohan Li +6

Machine learning emulators have become essential for accelerating expensive Earth-system simulations, but most existing approaches remain passive forecasters: they reproduce simula…

cs.DL2026

When AI Writes, Who Gets Cited? Evidence of Citation Monoculture Across Language Models

Sina Alemohammad, Denghui Zhang, Bolong Tang +5

As language models move from drafting prose to running literature-search agents with tool calls, fabricated references are becoming easier to catch and constrain. The harder failur…

cs.AI2026

Spatial Representation Learning Beyond Pixels: Unifying Raster Data and Vector Semantics for Human-Centric Geospatial Foundation Models

Steffen Knoblauch, Hao Li, Gengchen Mai +3

Earth Observation (EO) has fundamentally transformed the monitoring of environmental processes and human activities up to planetary scale. Recent advances in self-supervised learni…

cs.CV2026

Beyond Visual Fidelity: Benchmarking Super-Resolution Models for Large-Scale Remote Sensing Imagery via Downstream Task Integration

Zhili Li, Kangyang Chai, Zhihao Wang +6

Super-resolution (SR) techniques have made major advances in reconstructing high-resolution images from low-resolution inputs. The increased resolution provides visual enhancement…

cs.AI2026

NARA: Anchor-Conditioned Representation Learning for Heterogeneous Vector Geoentities

Jina Kim, Gengchen Mai, Lingyi Zhao +2

Vector geospatial data represent the world as discrete geoentities, such as roads, buildings, and points of interest, each with semantic attributes, geometry, and spatial relations…

cs.CV2026

TrajGANR: Trajectory-Centric Urban Multimodal Learning via Geospatially Aligned Neural Representations

Maria Despoina Siampou, Gengchen Mai, Ni Lao +4

Many urban prediction tasks depend not only on the static attributes of a location, such as the visual appearance of its built environment, but also on its dynamic function: how pe…

cs.CV2024

Cross-View Geolocalization and Disaster Mapping with Street-View and VHR Satellite Imagery: A Case Study of Hurricane IAN

Hao Li, Fabian Deuser, Wenping Yina +5

Nature disasters play a key role in shaping human-urban infrastructure interactions. Effective and efficient response to natural disasters is essential for building resilience and…

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.CV2024★ 16 cited

Img2Loc: Revisiting Image Geolocalization using Multi-modality Foundation Models and Image-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Zhongliang Zhou, Jielu Zhang, Zihan Guan +5

Geolocating precise locations from images presents a challenging problem in computer vision and information retrieval.Traditional methods typically employ either classification, wh…

cs.LG2024

TransFlower: An Explainable Transformer-Based Model with Flow-to-Flow Attention for Commuting Flow Prediction

Yan Luo, Zhuoyue Wan, Yuzhong Chen +3

Understanding the link between urban planning and commuting flows is crucial for guiding urban development and policymaking. This research, bridging computer science and urban stud…

cs.CL2024★ 43 cited

Revolutionizing Finance with LLMs: An Overview of Applications and Insights

Huaqin Zhao, Zhengliang Liu, Zihao Wu +16

In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT have seen considerable advancements and have been applied in diverse fields. Built on the Transformer architecture, these…

cs.CV2023★ 7 cited

On the Promises and Challenges of Multimodal Foundation Models for Geographical, Environmental, Agricultural, and Urban Planning Applications

Chenjiao Tan, Qian Cao, Yiwei Li +15

The advent of large language models (LLMs) has heightened interest in their potential for multimodal applications that integrate language and vision. This paper explores the capabi…

cs.AI2023★ 26 cited

Multimodality of AI for Education: Towards Artificial General Intelligence

Gyeong-Geon Lee, Lehong Shi, Ehsan Latif +10

This paper presents a comprehensive examination of how multimodal artificial intelligence (AI) approaches are paving the way towards the realization of Artificial General Intellige…

cs.AI2023★ 16 cited

Transformation vs Tradition: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) for Arts and Humanities

Zhengliang Liu, Yiwei Li, Qian Cao +9

Recent advances in artificial general intelligence (AGI), particularly large language models and creative image generation systems have demonstrated impressive capabilities on dive…

cs.CY2023★ 187 cited

Geo-knowledge-guided GPT models improve the extraction of location descriptions from disaster-related social media messages

Yingjie Hu, Gengchen Mai, Chris Cundy +6

Social media messages posted by people during natural disasters often contain important location descriptions, such as the locations of victims. Recent research has shown that many…

cs.AI2023★ 32 cited

Towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) in the Internet of Things (IoT): Opportunities and Challenges

Fei Dou, Jin Ye, Geng Yuan +22

Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), possessing the capacity to comprehend, learn, and execute tasks with human cognitive abilities, engenders significant anticipation and intrig…