Yutian Jiang

AI
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5 Papers

CLJun 3
LifeSide: Benchmarking Agents as Lifelong Digital Companions

Yuqian Wu, Zhijie Deng, Wei Chen et al.

Lifelong digital companions must integrate cross-session cues, continually update their understanding of users, and adapt to shifting privacy boundaries. Existing evaluations fail to capture this, testing memory recall and short-term empathy in isolation. To bridge this gap, we introduce \benchmark, a benchmark centered on multi-session \textit{Memory-Emotion-Environment} loops. By modeling users as persistent worlds with layered profiles and event trajectories, \benchmark uses multi-agent simulation to project environmental dynamics into dialogue, preserving the critical gap between latent thoughts and observable expressions. Evaluating 2,000 personas and 111K tasks across memory tracking, user understanding, privacy control, and emotional companionship, our experiment results reveal a stark reality: even models that saturate current memory benchmarks fail to sustain accurate user understanding and true companionship over long horizons.

AIApr 7Code
ActivityEditor: Learning to Synthesize Physically Valid Human Mobility

Chenjie Yang, Yutian Jiang, Anqi Liang et al.

Human mobility modeling is indispensable for diverse urban applications. However, existing data-driven methods often suffer from data scarcity, limiting their applicability in regions where historical trajectories are unavailable or restricted. To bridge this gap, we propose \textbf{ActivityEditor}, a novel dual-LLM-agent framework designed for zero-shot cross-regional trajectory generation. Our framework decomposes the complex synthesis task into two collaborative stages. Specifically, an intention-based agent, which leverages demographic-driven priors to generate structured human intentions and coarse activity chains to ensure high-level socio-semantic coherence. These outputs are then refined by editor agent to obtain mobility trajectories through iteratively revisions that enforces human mobility law. This capability is acquired through reinforcement learning with multiple rewards grounded in real-world physical constraints, allowing the agent to internalize mobility regularities and ensure high-fidelity trajectory generation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that \textbf{ActivityEditor} achieves superior zero-shot performance when transferred across diverse urban contexts. It maintains high statistical fidelity and physical validity, providing a robust and highly generalizable solution for mobility simulation in data-scarce scenarios. Our code is available at: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/ActivityEditor-066B.

CVMay 13, 2025Code
Unlocking Location Intelligence: A Survey from Deep Learning to The LLM Era

Xixuan Hao, Yutian Jiang, Xingchen Zou et al.

Location Intelligence (LI), the science of transforming location-centric geospatial data into actionable knowledge, has become a cornerstone of modern spatial decision-making. The rapid evolution of Geospatial Representation Learning is fundamentally reshaping LI development through two successive technological revolutions: the deep learning breakthrough and the emerging large language model (LLM) paradigm. While deep neural networks (DNNs) have demonstrated remarkable success in automated feature extraction from structured geospatial data (e.g., satellite imagery, GPS trajectories), the recent integration of LLMs introduces transformative capabilities for cross-modal geospatial reasoning and unstructured geo-textual data processing. This survey presents a comprehensive review of geospatial representation learning across both technological eras, organizing them into a structured taxonomy based on the complete pipeline comprising: (1) data perspective, (2) methodological perspective and (3) application perspective. We also highlight current advancements, discuss existing limitations, and propose potential future research directions in the LLM era. This work offers a thorough exploration of the field and providing a roadmap for further innovation in LI. The summary of the up-to-date paper list can be found in https://github.com/CityMind-Lab/Awesome-Location-Intelligence and will undergo continuous updates.

CVApr 10
Skill-Conditioned Visual Geolocation for Vision-Language

Chenjie Yang, Yutian Jiang, Chenyu Wu

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown a promising ability in image geolocation, but they still lack structured geographic reasoning and the capacity for autonomous self-evolution. Existing methods predominantly rely on implicit parametric memory, which often exploits outdated knowledge and generates hallucinated reasoning. Furthermore, current inference is a "one-off" process, lacking the feedback loops necessary for self-evolution based on reasoning outcomes. To address these issues, we propose GeoSkill, a training-free framework based on an evolving Skill-Graph. We first initialize the graph by refining human expert trajectories into atomic, natural-language skills. For execution, GeoSkill employs an inference model to perform direct reasoning guided by the current Skill-Graph. For continuous growth, an Autonomous Evolution mechanism leverages a larger model to conduct multiple reasoning rollouts on image-coordinate pairs sourced from web-scale data and verified real-world reasoning. By analyzing both successful and failed trajectories from these rollouts, the mechanism iteratively synthesizes and prunes skills, effectively expanding the Skill-Graph and correcting geographic biases without any parameter updates. Experiments demonstrate that GeoSkill achieves promising performance in both geolocation accuracy and reasoning faithfulness on GeoRC, while maintaining superior generalization across diverse external datasets. Furthermore, our autonomous evolution fosters the emergence of novel, verifiable skills, significantly enhancing the system's cognition of real-world geographic knowledge beyond isolated case studies.

AIOct 18, 2025
Urban-R1: Reinforced MLLMs Mitigate Geospatial Biases for Urban General Intelligence

Qiongyan Wang, Xingchen Zou, Yutian Jiang et al.

Rapid urbanization intensifies the demand for Urban General Intelligence (UGI), referring to AI systems that can understand and reason about complex urban environments. Recent studies have built urban foundation models using supervised fine-tuning (SFT) of LLMs and MLLMs, yet these models exhibit persistent geospatial bias, producing regionally skewed predictions and limited generalization. To this end, we propose Urban-R1, a reinforcement learning-based post-training framework that aligns MLLMs with the objectives of UGI. Urban-R1 adopts Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) to optimize reasoning across geographic groups and employs urban region profiling as a proxy task to provide measurable rewards from multimodal urban data. Extensive experiments across diverse regions and tasks show that Urban-R1 effectively mitigates geo-bias and improves cross-region generalization, outperforming both SFT-trained and closed-source models. Our results highlight reinforcement learning alignment as a promising pathway toward equitable and trustworthy urban intelligence.