From GPS Points to Travel Patterns: Flexible and Semantic Trajectory Generation with LLMs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.30014v1
• Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 14:39:40 GMT
• Title: From GPS Points to Travel Patterns: Flexible and Semantic Trajectory Generation with LLMs
• Abstract summary: Trajectory generation provides a promising alternative by synthesizing realistic data to mitigate privacy risks.<n>Existing methods fail to explicitly capture travel patterns and can only generate fixed-length trajectories under a single condition.<n>We propose textbfHTP, which textbfHierarchically generates textbfTravel patterns first and then generates GPS textbfPoints by using large language models.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Urban trajectories play a crucial role in modeling urban dynamics and supporting various smart city applications. However, privacy concerns restrict access to large-scale and high-quality trajectory datasets. Trajectory generation provides a promising alternative by synthesizing realistic data to mitigate privacy risks. However, existing methods fail to explicitly capture travel patterns and can only generate fixed-length trajectories under a single condition. To address these limitations, we propose \textbf{HTP}, which \textbf{H}ierarchically generates \textbf{T}ravel patterns first and then generates GPS \textbf{P}oints by using large language models (LLMs), rather than directly generating GPS points. We first design a trajectory-specific residual quantization variational autoencoder (RQ-VAE) that quantizes micro-level GPS trajectories into compact, macro-level travel pattern tokens in a coarse-to-fine manner. These tokens capture rich segment spatial irregularities, such as point density variations caused by traffic conditions. Then, we extend the LLM vocabulary with travel pattern tokens to align trajectory representations with the LLM input, and apply supervised fine-tuning (SFT) to align the LLM with the trajectory generation task, enabling generation of travel pattern sequences under various conditions. Extensive experiments on two real-world datasets show that HTP outperforms the strongest baseline by an average of 29.78\% in terms of generation quality. Our code is available at https://github.com/slzhou-xy/HTP.

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