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Mobility-Aware Cache Framework for Scalable LLM-Based Human Mobility Simulation
arXiv:2602.16727v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Simulating large-scale human mobility is fundamental to understanding population movement patterns and supporting real-world geospatial applications
arXiv:2602.16727v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Simulating large-scale human mobility is fundamental to understanding population movement patterns and supporting real-world geospatial applications such as urban planning, epidemic response, and transportation analysis. Recent works treat large language models (LLMs) as human agents to simulate realistic mobility behaviors using structured reasoning, but their high computational cost limits scalability. To address this, we design a mobility-aware cache framework named MobCache that leverages reconstructible caches to enable efficient large-scale human mobility simulations. It consists of: (1) a reasoning component that encodes each reasoning step as a latent-space embedding and uses a latent-space evaluator to enable the reuse and recombination of reasoning steps; and (2) a decoding component that employs a lightweight decoder trained with mobility law-constrained distillation to translate latent-space reasoning chains into natural language, thereby improving simulation efficiency while maintaining fidelity. Experiments show that MobCache significantly improves efficiency across multiple dimensions while maintaining performance comparable to state-of-the-art LLM-based methods.
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Source: arXiv cs.AI | 2026-07-15