9 papers
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…