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Luca Pappalardo @lucapappalardo.bsky.social · Sep 1

Three lightning talks by KDD Lab of Pisa at @css-conference.bsky.social in Siena, in a few minutes in the plenary room!

Luca Pappalardo @lucapappalardo.bsky.social · Jul 23

🚦 How diverse are your city’s routes?

Today at @ic2s2.bsky.social (lightning talks), @gcornacchia.bsky.social presents: “Route Diversification in Road Networks”.

We introduce DiverCity, a metric to quantify how traffic can spread across alternative routes.

#HumanMobility #Routing #ic2s2

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Luca Pappalardo @lucapappalardo.bsky.social · Jul 18

@giuliorossetti.bsky.social @gmauro10.bsky.social @dsalvaz.bsky.social @danigambit.bsky.social @vpansanella.bsky.social

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Luca Pappalardo @lucapappalardo.bsky.social · Jul 18

How do recommender systems shape our behavior?

📄 We review 144 studies across domains, from social media to GenAI.

🧭 With the EU Digital Services Act, data access is now possible. Our survey offers a guide to studying recommender-driven risks.

🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2407.01630

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Luca Pappalardo @lucapappalardo.bsky.social · Jun 19

Honored to host Prof. Marta González at our KDD Lab in Pisa! Her talk on the Science of Cities at Scuola Normale Superiore (@sns.it) was deeply inspiring.

A true privilege to meet the researcher who sparked my passion for human mobility. #UrbanScience #Mobility #Cities

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Giovanni Mauro @gmauro10.bsky.social · Jun 10

Great turnout for our workshop on the effects of Recommender Systems on social environments

@hhaiconference.bsky.social

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Giovanni Mauro @gmauro10.bsky.social · Jun 9

Back in action with the Gentrification crew!
@nicopedre.bsky.social @lucapappalardo.bsky.social
Truly honoured to receive this award at @netsciconf.bsky.social in Maastricht.
More updates coming soon!

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Alex "Sandy" Pentland @alex-pentland.bsky.social · May 7

The full UN report is available here: hdr.undp.org/content/huma...

Our paper is here: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Human Development Report 2025 | Human Development Reports

The 2025 Human Development Report explores the implications of artificial intelligence for human development and the choices we can make to ensure that it enhances human capabilities. Rather than atte...

hdr.undp.org

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Luca Pappalardo @lucapappalardo.bsky.social · May 7

Excited that our paper "Human-AI Coevolution" is cited in the latest UN Human Development Report: "A Matter of Choice: People and Possibilities in the Age of AI"! 🌍🤖

📘 UN report here: hdr.undp.org/content/huma...
📘 Paper here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Human Development Report 2025 | Human Development Reports

The 2025 Human Development Report explores the implications of artificial intelligence for human development and the choices we can make to ensure that it enhances human capabilities. Rather than atte...

hdr.undp.org

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Luca Pappalardo @lucapappalardo.bsky.social · Apr 24

Latest work on human mobility! A great collaboration with colleagues at FBK. Look at the paper on @pnas.org 👇

Massimiliano Luca @maxluca.bsky.social · Apr 24

New in PNAS! 📢 lnkd.in/d7z2VEjh
👉 We show how combining individual & collective behavior boosts out-of-routine mobility prediction

👉 We found collective behavior strongly impacts individual mobility in dense urban areas.

👉 The model is robust to severe behavioral changes (e.g., COVID pandemic)

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Riccardo Gallotti @ricgallotti.bsky.social · Apr 24

I just came across a paper full of hallucinated citations.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I have four urgent questions:
1) Which version of ChatGPT wrote this?
2) Which version of ChatGPT peer-reviewed it?
3) How many of these slip through “reputable” journals every day?
4) Are we being trolled?

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Massimiliano Luca @maxluca.bsky.social · Apr 24

New in PNAS! 📢 lnkd.in/d7z2VEjh
👉 We show how combining individual & collective behavior boosts out-of-routine mobility prediction

👉 We found collective behavior strongly impacts individual mobility in dense urban areas.

👉 The model is robust to severe behavioral changes (e.g., COVID pandemic)

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Luca Pappalardo @lucapappalardo.bsky.social · Apr 11

The human-AI feedback loop strikes back! This time in the urban environment. Look at our latest work 👇

Giovanni Mauro @gmauro10.bsky.social · Apr 11

We constantly ask our apps where to visit, eat or drink.
AI tells us, and most of the time, we follow it. The loop continues.
But do AIs favor certain places? How would we even know if we don’t own the platforms?
We modeled this complex phenomenon, and results are fascinating!
Spoiler: rich get…

arxiv.org

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Giovanni Mauro @gmauro10.bsky.social · Apr 11

We constantly ask our apps where to visit, eat or drink.
AI tells us, and most of the time, we follow it. The loop continues.
But do AIs favor certain places? How would we even know if we don’t own the platforms?
We modeled this complex phenomenon, and results are fascinating!
Spoiler: rich get…

arxiv.org

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Luca Pappalardo @lucapappalardo.bsky.social · Feb 11

🚀 Dino Pedreschi parla di coevoluzione tra umani ed AI a War Room InnovAction con @lucadebiase.bsky.social, in occasione dell’uscita del nostro articolo "Human-AI Coevolution" su Artificial Intelligence.

📺 Guarda l’intervista: 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARif...

#AI #HumanAI #Coevolution

War Room InnovAction - Luca De Biase dialoga con Dino Pedreschi

YouTube video by InConTraSrl

www.youtube.com

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Dani Gambit @danigambit.bsky.social · Feb 4

Preprint v2 is out! On @arxiv-cs-cl.bsky.social our update on #ModelCollapse of #AI #LLMs with new characterizations based on #Semantic #Networks and #NextToken predictions, new insights about the collapse effect and possible mitigation methods. @lucapappalardo.bsky.social
arxiv.org/abs/2410.12341

Characterizing Model Collapse in Large Language Models Using Semantic Networks and Next-Token Probability

As synthetic content increasingly infiltrates the web, generative AI models may experience an autophagy process, where they are fine-tuned using their own outputs. This autophagy could lead to a pheno...

arxiv.org

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HHAI 2025 @hhaiconference.bsky.social · Jan 24

🚨#callforpapers🚨
Last day to submit your work for the Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence Conference.

👉 Abstract: today
👉 Full paper: January 31, 2025

Join us at #HHAI2025 in Pisa, June 9-13!

🌐 hhai-conference.org/2025/cfp/

#AI #conference #ML #AIEthics

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HHAI 2025 @hhaiconference.bsky.social · Jan 22

📢 𝗦𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱: 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴! 📢

You have only until 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟮𝟰 to submit your paper to HHAI 2025.

Find all the details here and apply now 👉 hhai-conference.org/2025/cfp/

☀️ HHAI 2025 will be held on June 9–13, 2025, in Pisa

#artificialintelligence

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Luca Pappalardo @lucapappalardo.bsky.social · Dec 12

The KDD Lab Workshop 2024 just started in San Miniato, Italy.
Two days for sharing the last achievements and new horizons in research...

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Luca Pappalardo @lucapappalardo.bsky.social · Nov 28

Big thanks to @ric-dicle.bsky.social for an outstanding lesson on unlocking the secrets of human mobility with digital data in our #GeospatialAnalytics course at the University of Pisa. Inspiring and eye-opening! 🌍📊🚶‍♂️ #HumanMobility

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Ronaldo Menezes 🦋 @ronaldomenezes.bsky.social · Nov 25

Thanks for tue amazing event in Pisa. I’m back home but looking forward to the next steps. Special thanks to @adtony.bsky.social @ric-dicle.bsky.social and @lucapappalardo.bsky.social!

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Luca Pappalardo @lucapappalardo.bsky.social · Nov 25

Interesting article on @forbes.com on Human-AI coevolution, covering our recent publication on AIJ 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

www.forbes.com/sites/lancee...

Evolving Together: Human-AI Coevolution Is Said To Be Coming Whether Humanity Likes It Or Not

www.forbes.com

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Luca Pappalardo @lucapappalardo.bsky.social · Nov 23

What an incredible experience at the European Mobility Symposium! Huge thanks to @ric-dicle.bsky.social for co-organizing and to all the participants for the enriching discussions. See you at the next edition!
#EMoS #HumanMobility