Search Results for author: Vanessa Ferdinand

Found 2 papers, 1 papers with code

The cognitive roots of regularization in language

no code implementations9 Mar 2017 Vanessa Ferdinand, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

Regularization occurs when the output a learner produces is less variable than the linguistic data they observed.

Dynamics of beneficial epidemics

1 code implementation7 Apr 2016 Andrew Berdahl, Christa Brelsford, Caterina De Bacco, Marion Dumas, Vanessa Ferdinand, Joshua A. Grochow, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Yoav Kallus, Christopher P. Kempes, Artemy Kolchinsky, Daniel B. Larremore, Eric Libby, Eleanor A. Power, Caitlin A. Stern, Brendan Tracey

Third, in the context of dynamic social networks, we find that preferences for increased global infection accelerate spread and produce superexponential fixation, but preferences for local assortativity halt epidemics by disconnecting the infected from the susceptible.

Physics and Society Multiagent Systems Social and Information Networks Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems Populations and Evolution

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