# Google Research Introduces ME-POIs: A Mobility-Informed Framework that Adds “How a Place Is Used” to Text-Based POI Embeddings

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> Published: 2026-08-24 13:56:59+00:00

framework that folds aggregate human movement into text-based place embeddings. Language models describe what a place is; they miss how it is used. ME-POIs encodes each visit as a contextualized vector and aligns it with one learnable prototype per POI through contrastive learning, then transfers visit distributions from data-rich anchors to the long tail across three spatial scales. Across five map-enrichment tasks on Los Angeles and Houston mobility data, adding ME-POIs improved 34 of 35 model-task pairings in Los Angeles — up to 81.9% relative F1 on visit intent and a 24.7% MAE reduction on busyness. A mobility-only variant beat Gemini text embeddings on price-level classification.

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