NARA: Anchor-Conditioned Representation Learning for Heterogeneous Vector Geoentities
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arXiv:2605.12276v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 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 to other geoentities, including metric proximity and topology. Existing methods for learning geoentity representations typically support a single geometry type or model only a subset of these relations, limiting their ability to capture spatial context across heterogeneous geoentities and support diverse downstream tasks. We propose NARA (Neural Anchor-conditioned
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2605.12276v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 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 to other geoentities, including metric proximity and topology.
- Existing methods for learning geoentity representations typically support a single geometry type or model only a subset of these relations, limiting their ability to capture spatial context across heterogeneous geoentities and support diverse downstream tasks.
- We propose NARA (Neural Anchor-conditioned
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