ActivityEditor: Learning to Synthesize Physically Valid Human Mobility

arXiv cs.AI / 4/8/2026

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Key Points

  • The paper introduces ActivityEditor, a dual-LLM-agent framework for generating human mobility trajectories in a zero-shot, cross-regional setting where historical trajectory data is scarce or unavailable.
  • It splits synthesis into an intention-based stage (using demographic-driven priors to produce structured intentions and coarse activity chains) and an editor stage that iteratively revises trajectories to satisfy human mobility laws.
  • The editor’s refinement is trained with reinforcement learning using multiple reward signals based on real-world physical constraints, aiming to internalize mobility regularities and improve physical validity.
  • Experiments reportedly show stronger zero-shot performance across diverse urban contexts while preserving statistical fidelity and physical plausibility.
  • The authors provide an open code link for ActivityEditor, supporting reproducibility and further research.

Abstract

Human mobility modeling is indispensable for diverse urban applications. However, existing data-driven methods often suffer from data scarcity, limiting their applicability in regions where historical trajectories are unavailable or restricted. To bridge this gap, we propose \textbf{ActivityEditor}, a novel dual-LLM-agent framework designed for zero-shot cross-regional trajectory generation. Our framework decomposes the complex synthesis task into two collaborative stages. Specifically, an intention-based agent, which leverages demographic-driven priors to generate structured human intentions and coarse activity chains to ensure high-level socio-semantic coherence. These outputs are then refined by editor agent to obtain mobility trajectories through iteratively revisions that enforces human mobility law. This capability is acquired through reinforcement learning with multiple rewards grounded in real-world physical constraints, allowing the agent to internalize mobility regularities and ensure high-fidelity trajectory generation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that \textbf{ActivityEditor} achieves superior zero-shot performance when transferred across diverse urban contexts. It maintains high statistical fidelity and physical validity, providing a robust and highly generalizable solution for mobility simulation in data-scarce scenarios. Our code is available at: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/ActivityEditor-066B.