@inproceedings{MurugaboopathyJerzakDaoud2026,
  author    = {Murugaboopathy, Satiyabooshan and Jerzak, Connor T. and Daoud, Adel},
  title     = {{Platonic Representations for Poverty Mapping}: {Unified Vision-Language Codes or Agent-Induced Novelty?}},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Social Computing (ICSC 2026)},
  series    = {Communications in Computer and Information Science},
  publisher = {Springer Nature},
  year      = {2026},
  keywords  = {poverty mapping, multimodal learning, vision-language models, large language models, AI agents, agent-induced novelty, Platonic representation hypothesis, satellite imagery, Earth observation, remote sensing, socioeconomic prediction, International Wealth Index, Demographic and Health Surveys, Africa, representation learning}
}