UrbanAgent: Multi-Agent Collaborative Reasoning for Urban Region Profiling

Jul 16, 2026

UrbanAgent is a new framework that approaches urban region profiling as a reasoning-driven inference task, using multiple agents—each dedicated to a specific data modality—to address inconsistencies across data types. The system incorporates tool-augmented evidence retrieval and reinforcement learning, enabling agents to actively acquire and verify information. Experiments on global datasets for carbon emissions, GDP, and population estimation show UrbanAgent achieves an average 8.1% improvement in R2 over existing methods and demonstrates strong generalization to unseen cities.

Why it matters: This work presents a novel agent-based approach that improves the robustness and generalization of urban region profiling by explicitly reasoning over multimodal data, moving beyond traditional correlation-based methods.

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