# Google Research — Mapping the modern world: How S2Vec learns the language of our cities

- Company: Google Research (research.google)
- Announced: 2026-03-24T17:42:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Subject: Research
- Models affected: S2Vec
- Source: https://research.google/blog/mapping-the-modern-world-how-s2vec-learns-the-language-of-our-cities/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1355-mapping-the-modern-world-how-s2vec-learns-the-language-of-our-cities

Google Research introduces S2Vec, a self-supervised framework that transforms complex geospatial data into general-purpose embeddings to predict socioeconomic and environmental patterns across the globe.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://research.google/blog/mapping-the-modern-world-how-s2vec-learns-the-language-of-our-cities/:

> We introduce S2Vec, a self-supervised framework that transforms complex geospatial data into general-purpose embeddings to predict socioeconomic and environmental patterns across the globe.

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