Large Language Models for Spatial Analysis Queries

Summary: Survey of LLMs for spatial analysis queries with a taxonomy from use-as-is and fine-tuning to full retraining and LLM-internal modifications to capture spatial primitives and reasoning. Proposes benchmarks, evaluation protocols, and pinpoints research gaps in spatial semantics, geometric operators, and efficiency/accuracy trade-offs for LLM-driven spatial DBMS. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: he6d668f8cddf74cc
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 4.9793485e-05
Overall Rank: 11,423 | 23.20%
DOI: 10.14778/3750601.3750693

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Authors

1. Youssef Hussein (University of Minnesota)
2. Mohamed Hemdan (University of Minnesota)
3. Mohamed F. Mokbel (University of Minnesota)

BibTeX Citation

@article{hussein_vldb25,
        title = {{Large Language Models for Spatial Analysis Queries}},
        author = {Hussein, Youssef and Hemdan, Mohamed and Mokbel, Mohamed F.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '25},
        volume = {18},
        number = {12},
        pages = {5451--5454},
        doi = {10.14778/3750601.3750693},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3750601.3750693},
        year = {2025}
}

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10,870	KAFY: An Extensible and Scalable Transformers-Based System for Trajectory Data Analysis	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
11,025	Are We There Yet? A Grand Tour of ETA Queries	2026	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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4,589	ArcheType: A Novel Framework for Open-Source Column Type Annotation using Large Language Models	2024	VLDB	6.5144711e-05
4,630	Transformers for Tabular Data Representation: A Tutorial on Models and Applications	2022	VLDB	6.4953891e-05
5,705	Analyzing How BERT Performs Entity Matching	2022	VLDB	6.0295759e-05
7,519	Comparing Synopsis Techniques for Approximate Spatial Data Analysis	2019	VLDB	5.502959e-05
7,651	Kamel: A Scalable BERT-based System for Trajectory Imputation	2024	VLDB	5.4772833e-05
7,877	Spatial Data Quality in the IoT Era: Management and Exploitation	2022	SIGMOD	5.4346692e-05
7,987	TSGAssist: An Interactive Assistant Harnessing LLMs and RAG for Time Series Generation Recommendations and Benchmarking	2024	VLDB	5.4119536e-05
8,879	Spatial Query Optimization With Learning	2024	VLDB	5.2568354e-05
8,986	DataLoom: Simplifying Data Loading with LLMs	2024	VLDB	5.2428439e-05
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9,809	Fast Network K-function-based Spatial Analysis	2022	VLDB	5.1257999e-05
9,812	KDV-Explorer: A Near Real-Time Kernel Density Visualization System for Spatial Analysis	2021	VLDB	5.1257999e-05
12,173	Flash in Action: Scalable Spatial Data Analysis Using Markov Logic Networks	2019	VLDB	4.9793485e-05

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