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Geo-localization is the task of identifying the location of an image using visual cues alone. It has beneficial applications, such as improving disaster response, enhancing navigation, and geography education. Recently, Vision-Language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Oliver Grainge , Sania Waheed , Jack Stilgoe , Michael Milford , Shoaib Ehsan

Recent progress in geospatial foundation models highlights the importance of learning general-purpose representations for real-world locations, particularly points-of-interest (POIs) where human activity concentrates. Existing approaches,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Maria Despoina Siampou , Shushman Choudhury , Shang-Ling Hsu , Neha Arora , Cyrus Shahabi

Most recommender systems treat timestamps as numeric or cyclical values, overlooking real-world context such as holidays, events, and seasonal patterns. We propose a scalable framework that uses large language models (LLMs) to generate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Yejin Kim , Shaghayegh Agah , Mayur Nankani , Neeraj Sharma , Feifei Peng , Maria Peifer , Sardar Hamidian , H Howie Huang

Large language models (LLMs) are advanced AI systems applied across various domains, including NLP, information retrieval, and recommendation systems. Despite their adaptability and efficiency, LLMs have not been extensively explored for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Harshith Manjunath , Lucas Heublein , Tobias Feigl , Felix Ott

Location-based services play an critical role in improving the quality of our daily lives. Despite the proliferation of numerous specialized AI models within spatio-temporal context of location-based services, these models struggle to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Yue Jiang , Qin Chao , Yile Chen , Xiucheng Li , Shuai Liu , Gao Cong

Human-AI interactivity is a critical aspect that reflects the usability of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). However, existing end-to-end MLLMs only allow users to interact with them through language instructions, leading to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Liang Zhao , En Yu , Zheng Ge , Jinrong Yang , Haoran Wei , Hongyu Zhou , Jianjian Sun , Yuang Peng , Runpei Dong , Chunrui Han , Xiangyu Zhang

This paper explores the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for sequential recommendation, which predicts users' future interactions based on their past behavior. We introduce a new concept, "Integrating Recommendation Systems as a New…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Kai Zheng , Qingfeng Sun , Can Xu , Peng Yu , Qingwei Guo

With the popularity of location-based services, human mobility prediction plays a key role in enhancing personalized navigation, optimizing recommendation systems, and facilitating urban mobility and planning. This involves predicting a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Xiaohang Xu , Renhe Jiang , Chuang Yang , Zipei Fan , Kaoru Sezaki

Our goal is to answer real-world tourism questions that seek Points-of-Interest (POI) recommendations. Such questions express various kinds of spatial and non-spatial constraints, necessitating a combination of textual and spatial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Danish Contractor , Shashank Goel , Mausam , Parag Singla

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in tasks such as code and mathematics. However, their potential to internalize structured spatial knowledge remains underexplored. This study investigates…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Sirui Xia , Aili Chen , Xintao Wang , Tinghui Zhu , Yikai Zhang , Jiangjie Chen , Yanghua Xiao

We present a simple yet effective approach that can transform the OpenAI GPT-3.5 model into a reliable motion planner for autonomous vehicles. Motion planning is a core challenge in autonomous driving, aiming to plan a driving trajectory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Jiageng Mao , Yuxi Qian , Junjie Ye , Hang Zhao , Yue Wang

Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs) enable users to socialize with friends and acquaintances by sharing their check-ins, opinions, photos, and reviews. Huge volume of data generated from LBSNs opens up a new avenue of research that gives…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Md. Ashraful Islam , Mir Mahathir Mohammad , Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das , Mohammed Eunus Ali

Human travel trajectory mining is crucial for transportation systems, enhancing route optimization, traffic management, and the study of human travel patterns. Previous rule-based approaches without the integration of semantic information…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Yifan Liu , Chenchen Kuai , Haoxuan Ma , Xishun Liao , Brian Yueshuai He , Jiaqi Ma

Large-scale language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, are becoming increasingly sophisticated and exhibit human-like capabilities, playing an essential role in assisting humans in a variety of everyday tasks. An important application of AI…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Yugen Sato , Taisei Nakajima , Tatsuki Kawamoto , Tomohiro Takagi

The development of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) is striving to catch up with the success of Large Language Models (LLMs), yet it faces more challenges to be resolved. Very recent works enable LVLMs to localize object-level visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Zhipeng Huang , Zhizheng Zhang , Zheng-Jun Zha , Yan Lu , Baining Guo

Large language models (LLMs) have not only revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP) but also have the potential to bring a paradigm shift in many other fields due to their remarkable abilities of language understanding,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Qi Wang , Jindong Li , Shiqi Wang , Qianli Xing , Runliang Niu , He Kong , Rui Li , Guodong Long , Yi Chang , Chengqi Zhang

Geo-temporal understanding, the ability to infer location, time, and contextual properties from visual input alone, underpins applications such as disaster management, traffic planning, embodied navigation, world modeling, and geography…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Azmine Toushik Wasi , Shahriyar Zaman Ridoy , Koushik Ahamed Tonmoy , Kinga Tshering , S. M. Muhtasimul Hasan , Wahid Faisal , Tasnim Mohiuddin , Md Rizwan Parvez

Geospatial question answering (QA) is a fundamental task in navigation and point of interest (POI) searches. While existing geospatial QA datasets exist, they are limited in both scale and diversity, often relying solely on textual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Zekun Li , Malcolm Grossman , Eric , Qasemi , Mihir Kulkarni , Muhao Chen , Yao-Yi Chiang

Integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into visual domain tasks, resulting in visual-LLMs (V-LLMs), has enabled exceptional performance in vision-language tasks, particularly for visual question answering (VQA). However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Kanchana Ranasinghe , Satya Narayan Shukla , Omid Poursaeed , Michael S. Ryoo , Tsung-Yu Lin

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has fundamentally transformed natural language processing, making them indispensable across domains ranging from conversational systems to scientific exploration. However, their pre-trained…