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Large Language Models (LLMs) show remarkable potential for urban computing, from spatial reasoning to predictive analytics. However, evaluating LLMs across diverse urban tasks faces two critical challenges: lack of unified platforms for…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Yaqiao Zhu , Hongkai Wen , Mark Birkin , Man Luo

Brain Foundation Models (BFMs) are transforming neuroscience by enabling scalable and transferable learning from neural signals, advancing both clinical diagnostics and cutting-edge neuroscience exploration. Their emergence is powered by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Fanqi Shen , Enhong Yang , Jiahe Li , Junru Hong , Xiaoran Pan , Zhizhang Yuan , Meng Li , Yang Yang

The advent of foundation models has revolutionized the fields of natural language processing and computer vision, paving the way for their application in autonomous driving (AD). This survey presents a comprehensive review of more than 40…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Haoxiang Gao , Zhongruo Wang , Yaqian Li , Kaiwen Long , Ming Yang , Yiqing Shen

City models and height maps of urban areas serve as a valuable data source for numerous applications, such as disaster management or city planning. While this information is not globally available, it can be substituted by digital surface…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Lukas Liebel , Ksenia Bittner , Marco Körner

Foundation Models (FM) have increasingly drawn the attention of researchers due to their scalability and generalization across diverse tasks. Inspired by the success of FMs and the principles that have driven advancements in Large Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Mohammadreza Baharani , Ghazal Alinezhad Noghre , Armin Danesh Pazho , Gabriel Maldonado , Hamed Tabkhi

The prevalence of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) raises important questions about privacy in an era where visual information is increasingly available. While foundation VLMs demonstrate broad knowledge and learned capabilities, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Neel Jay , Hieu Minh Nguyen , Trung Dung Hoang , Jacob Haimes

Deep Learning (DL) models have been widely deployed on IoT devices with the help of advancements in DL algorithms and chips. However, the limited resources of edge devices make these on-device DL models hard to be generalizable to diverse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Bufang Yang , Lixing He , Neiwen Ling , Zhenyu Yan , Guoliang Xing , Xian Shuai , Xiaozhe Ren , Xin Jiang

Applying AI foundation models directly to geospatial datasets remains challenging due to their limited ability to represent and reason with geographical entities, specifically vector-based geometries and natural language descriptions of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Yuhan Ji , Song Gao , Ying Nie , Ivan Majić , Krzysztof Janowicz

This chapter introduces OpenStreetMap - a crowd-sourced, worldwide mapping project and geospatial data repository - to illustrate its usefulness in quickly and easily analyzing and visualizing planning and design outcomes in the built…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-08-28 Geoff Boeing

Foundation models (FMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in generalized intelligence, multimodal understanding, and adaptive learning across a wide range of domains. However, their deployment in harsh or austere environments --…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Evan Chen , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Christopher G. Brinton , David J. Love

Geospatial Foundation Models (GeoFMs) are transforming Earth Observation (EO), but evaluation lacks standardized protocols. GEO-Bench-2 addresses this with a comprehensive framework spanning classification, segmentation, regression, object…

Deep Feedback Models (DFMs) are a new class of stateful neural networks that combine bottom up input with high level representations over time. This feedback mechanism introduces dynamics into otherwise static architectures, enabling DFMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 David Calhas , Arlindo L. Oliveira

Learning mappings between functional spaces, also known as function-on-function regression, is a fundamental problem in functional data analysis with broad applications, including spatiotemporal forecasting, curve prediction, and climate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Matthew Lowery , Zhitong Xu , Da Long , Keyan Chen , Daniel S. Johnson , Yang Bai , Varun Shankar , Shandian Zhe

Recent advances in foundation models (FMs), including large language models (LLMs), vision-language models (VLMs), and world models, have opened new opportunities for autonomous driving systems (ADSs) in perception, reasoning,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Xiongfei Wu , Mingfei Cheng , Xiaoning Ren , Qiang Hu , Jianlang Chen , Yuheng Huang , Maxime Cordy , Yao Zhang , Xiaofei Xie , Lei Ma , Yves Le Traon

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) and multimodal foundation models (FMs) has generated heightened interest in their applications that integrate vision and language. This paper investigates the capabilities of ChatGPT-4V and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Zhenyuan Yang , Xuhui Lin , Qinyi He , Ziye Huang , Zhengliang Liu , Hanqi Jiang , Peng Shu , Zihao Wu , Yiwei Li , Stephen Law , Gengchen Mai , Tianming Liu , Tao Yang

We propose Pullback Flow Matching (PFM), a novel framework for generative modeling on data manifolds. Unlike existing methods that assume or learn restrictive closed-form manifold mappings for training Riemannian Flow Matching (RFM) models,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Friso de Kruiff , Erik Bekkers , Ozan Öktem , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Willem Diepeveen

Effective foundation modeling in remote sensing requires spatially aligned heterogeneous modalities coupled with semantically grounded supervision, yet such resources remain limited at scale. We present GeoMeld, a large-scale multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Maram Hasan , Md Aminur Hossain , Savitra Roy , Souparna Bhowmik , Ayush V. Patel , Mainak Singha , Subhasis Chaudhuri , Muhammad Haris Khan , Biplab Banerjee

Foundation models (FMs), large neural networks pretrained on extensive and diverse datasets, have revolutionized artificial intelligence and shown significant promise in medical imaging by enabling robust performance with limited labeled…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-17 Salah Ghamizi , Georgia Kanli , Yu Deng , Magali Perquin , Olivier Keunen

Recently, feature upsampling has gained increasing attention owing to its effectiveness in enhancing vision foundation models (VFMs) for pixel-level understanding tasks. Existing methods typically rely on high-resolution features from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Xiaoqiong Liu , Heng Fan

Humans subconsciously engage in geospatial reasoning when reading articles. We recognize place names and their spatial relations in text and mentally associate them with their physical locations on Earth. Although pretrained language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zekun Li , Wenxuan Zhou , Yao-Yi Chiang , Muhao Chen