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"… research requires failure. But constant failure drags you down. A mind whose only intake is failure cannot possibly produce anything resembling happiness. Ultimately, your life is your project—not the other way around." #ScienceWorkingLife scim.ag/6Tm

New preprint out 🔥 "Large Language Models are Zero-Shot Next Location Predictors". wt Ciro Beneduce Bruno Lepri 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2405.20962 We tested > 10 LLMs for zero-shot next-location prediction. We found they can outperform selected DL baselines by 600% (ACC@5)🧵👇

📣Questa domenica (h 12:35) sarò ospite di Wired Italia per il Next Fest che si terrà a Milano. Parlerò di criminologia computazionale, tentando inoltre di mostrare come i dati ci aiutino a sfatare miti su sicurezza e criminalità. Per iscriversi: eventi.wired.it/nextfest24-mil… #WNF24

Happy to share a new pre-print out on arXiv today: "Physical partisan proximity outweighs online ties in predicting US voting outcomes" ➡️ arxiv.org/abs/2407.12146 #USpolitics #segregation #2024Elections

Day 2 at #IC2S2: Prof Jurafsky delivers keynote speech on applications of NLP in interdisciplinary research. Join us in Irvine Auditorium!

🚨Is anyone willing to join Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK and Bruno Lepri for a fully-funded PhD on Cooperative Large Language Models?🧐 Drop a message to Bruno Bruno Lepri and spread the news. Deadline for application is September 5th! Additional info here: iecs.unitn.it/education/admi…

🚨🚨New wp alert! We use machine learning to predict mafia infiltration in local governments in 🇮🇹 + we study the impact of EU funds on infiltration risk. Great econ-crim collab with Gianmarco Daniele and Marco Le Moglie 🔥/// Check thread below for an excellent overview ⬇️⬇️⬇️

We are hiring a postdoc at my group (SUNLab) Network Science Institute. Interested in working on multidisciplinary problems like segregation, health, or economic growth from the perspective of Social Urban Networks? Contact me if you are interested. Please share it! northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/Bo…

🎉 Our work "SMOSE: Sparse Mixture of Shallow Experts for Interpretable Reinforcement Learning in Continuous Control Tasks" has been accepted by AAAI 2025! #AAAI2025 paper: arxiv.org/abs/2412.13053 with Laura Ferrarotti, Bruno Lepri, Giovanni Iacca 🧵1/6

📣 New preprint out 🚨 "Predicting human cooperation: sensitizing drift-diffusion model to interaction and external stimuli" 👥 Co-authored with Laura Ferrarotti and in collab with Bruno Lepri and Riccardo Gallotti Check it out on arXiv : arxiv.org/abs/2412.16121

New Nature Human Behaviour paper tracks mobility to reveal surprisingly long-distance dependencies between businesses. These insights could improve policy to bolster neighborhood economies and help business owners see how closures elsewhere might impact them Esteban Moro Takahiro Yabe

Happy to see our work, "Socioeconomic disparities in mobility behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic in developing countries", out in EPJ Data Science "Data for the Wellbeing of Most Vulnerable". bit.ly/socioeconomic_… 🙏to the editors and the amazing team for the hard work!

Faithfulness of GNN explanations isn’t one-size-fits-all🧢 Our last ICLR 2026 paper breaks it down across: 1. Evaluation metrics 2. Model implementations 3. OOD generalisation w: Antonio Longa Stefano Teso andrea passerini 1/5

🎉 New paper out in PNAS! 👇👇👇

Prevedere i movimenti umani è cruciale ma l’IA fatica quando usciamo dalla routine Una ricerca Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK - CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche su PNASNews propone algoritmo che unisce intelligenza individuale e collettiva per anticipare anche gli spostamenti “imprevedibili” magazine.fbk.eu/it/news/intell…

*Permanent* position in Applied Mathematics at City. We are - of course - particularly interested in profiles in Computational Social Science, Network Science, Data Science, and related fields. The application deadline is June 1st. jobs.ac.uk/job/DMY889/lec…

We present Epydemix: open-source python package for all stages of epidemic modelling: from models' definition to their calibration via ABC methods. Website: epydemix.org. Paper: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…. High level summary: epistorm.org/activities/epy…

Forecasting Seasonal Influenza Epidemics with Physics-Informed Neural Networks arxiv.org/abs/2506.03897