no code implementations • 23 Dec 2023 • Yan Leng, Yuan Yuan
Recent social science research has explored the use of these ``black-box'' LLM agents for simulating complex social systems and potentially substituting human subjects in experiments.
no code implementations • 16 Jun 2022 • Emanuele Rossi, Federico Monti, Yan Leng, Michael M. Bronstein, Xiaowen Dong
We adopt a transformer-like architecture which correctly accounts for the symmetries of the problem and learns a mapping from the equilibrium actions to the network structure of the game without explicit knowledge of the utility function.
no code implementations • 29 Sep 2021 • Emanuele Rossi, Federico Monti, Yan Leng, Michael M. Bronstein, Xiaowen Dong
Strategic interactions between a group of individuals or organisations can be modelled as games played on networks, where a player's payoff depends not only on their actions but also on those of their neighbors.
1 code implementation • 20 Sep 2020 • Yan Leng, Rodrigo Ruiz, Xiaowen Dong, Alex Pentland
Recommender systems (RS) are ubiquitous in the digital space.
Ranked #1 on Recommendation Systems on YahooMusic Monti (using extra training data)
no code implementations • 1 Jun 2020 • Yan Leng, Tara Sowrirajan, Alex Pentland
While homophily drives the formation of communities with similar characteristics, social influence occurs both within and between communities.
1 code implementation • 21 May 2020 • Yan Leng, Yujia Zhai, Shaojing Sun, Yifei Wu, Jordan Selzer, Sharon Strover, Julia Fensel, Alex Pentland, Ying Ding
COVID-19 resulted in an infodemic, which could erode public trust, impede virus containment, and outlive the pandemic itself.
Social and Information Networks Computers and Society
no code implementations • ICML 2020 • Yan Leng, Xiaowen Dong, Junfeng Wu, Alex Pentland
Individuals, or organizations, cooperate with or compete against one another in a wide range of practical situations.
no code implementations • 30 Nov 2017 • Dhaval Adjodah, Dan Calacci, Yan Leng, Peter Krafft, Esteban Moro, Alex Pentland
We draw upon a previously largely untapped literature on human collective intelligence as a source of inspiration for improving deep learning.