GeoDiT: A Diffusion-based Vision-Language Model for Geospatial Understanding

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Autores principales: Liu, Jiaqi, Fu, Ronghao, Liu, Haoran, Sun, Lang, Yang, Bo
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Publicado: 2025
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author Liu, Jiaqi
Fu, Ronghao
Liu, Haoran
Sun, Lang
Yang, Bo
author_facet Liu, Jiaqi
Fu, Ronghao
Liu, Haoran
Sun, Lang
Yang, Bo
contents Autoregressive models are structurally misaligned with the inherently parallel nature of geospatial understanding, forcing a rigid sequential narrative onto scenes and fundamentally hindering the generation of structured and coherent outputs. We challenge this paradigm by reframing geospatial generation as a parallel refinement process, enabling a holistic, coarse-to-fine synthesis that resolves all semantic elements simultaneously. To operationalize this, we introduce GeoDiT, the first diffusion-based vision-language model tailored for the geospatial domain. Extensive experiments demonstrate that GeoDiT establishes a new state-of-the-art on benchmarks requiring structured, object-centric outputs. It achieves significant gains in image captioning, visual grounding, and multi-object detection, precisely the tasks where autoregressive models falter. Our work validates that aligning the generative process with the data's intrinsic structure is key to unlocking superior performance in complex geospatial analysis.
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spellingShingle GeoDiT: A Diffusion-based Vision-Language Model for Geospatial Understanding
Liu, Jiaqi
Fu, Ronghao
Liu, Haoran
Sun, Lang
Yang, Bo
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Autoregressive models are structurally misaligned with the inherently parallel nature of geospatial understanding, forcing a rigid sequential narrative onto scenes and fundamentally hindering the generation of structured and coherent outputs. We challenge this paradigm by reframing geospatial generation as a parallel refinement process, enabling a holistic, coarse-to-fine synthesis that resolves all semantic elements simultaneously. To operationalize this, we introduce GeoDiT, the first diffusion-based vision-language model tailored for the geospatial domain. Extensive experiments demonstrate that GeoDiT establishes a new state-of-the-art on benchmarks requiring structured, object-centric outputs. It achieves significant gains in image captioning, visual grounding, and multi-object detection, precisely the tasks where autoregressive models falter. Our work validates that aligning the generative process with the data's intrinsic structure is key to unlocking superior performance in complex geospatial analysis.
title GeoDiT: A Diffusion-based Vision-Language Model for Geospatial Understanding
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.02505