Uncovering urban functional areas differences through POI-based spatial metrics: evidence from Jianghan district, Wuhan
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Abstract
Urban functional areas (UFAs) exhibit strong spatial heterogeneity, and point of interest (POI) data represent valuable resources for capturing this variation. Although prior studies have mainly focused on using POIs to improve the accuracy of identification models, the underlying mechanisms by which POI characteristics distinguish UFAs remain underexplored. To address this, this study analyzed the differences in the characteristics of POI data across UFAs from three perspectives: density, diversity, and spatial distribution patterns. Moreover, to assess the positional relationships of POIs, the along-edge distribution index was developed. The results showed that POI characteristics differ markedly among UFAs. Density and diversity were the highest in commercial & business facilities and residential areas, whereas industrial land and green space & square areas exhibited sparse and homogeneous POI distributions. Spatially, POIs in residential and commercial & business facilities parcels were clustered, whereas those in administration & public services and green space & square areas were more dispersed. Regarding positional relationships, POIs in residential and street & transportation areas tended to align along parcel boundaries. These findings enhance our understanding of POI-based functional differentiation and offer practical insights into more interpretable UFA identification models and urban planning applications.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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