No Trajectories, No Satellite Imagery: 1.05 Million US Grid Cells Compressed to 256 Structural Dimensions
PlacePulse compresses 1,055,537 US H3 resolution-7 cells into 256-dimensional unit-norm vectors using only static structural attributes such as demographics, businesses and environmental risk, beating a dimensionality-matched feature-selection baseline on 74 external targets and leading Google's Population Dynamics Foundation Model on health and economic outcomes.