📣 Manuscript out! 📣 Do you struggle in navigating the maze of ABM methods? 🧭 This works unifies the literature on ABM calibration/estimation within a single comprehensive taxonomy: 🎲 sampling-based methods 🤖 meta-models 📖 open-box methods with @gdfm.bsky.social 💡 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Great xmas news! 🎄 Paper accepted at #AAMAS2026! arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09669 "Population synthesis with geographic coordinates" Generating realistic populations of houses as input of an ABM. 1. Data generator = NFs transform geo coordinates + VAE 2. Evaluation pipeline = fidelity + utility + privacy

New preprint out! arxiv.org/abs/2510.09669 How to develop population synthetis methods: 1) generation 2) evaluation *Generation*: Normalizing Flows transform geographic coordinates -> VAE generates data *Evaluation*: (i) fidelity (ii) utility and (iii) privacy

Population synthesis with geographic coordinates

It is increasingly important to generate synthetic populations with explicit coordinates rather than coarse geographic areas, yet no established methods exist to achieve this. One reason is that latit...

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Hugging my poster at @icwsm.bsky.social! 🥰 Back in Copenhagen to present "Variational Inference of Parameters in Opinion Dynamics Models"! Great time here, meeting all my @nerdsitu.bsky.social friends and creating new connections in the community! ojs.aaai.org/index.php/IC...

Great experience in Sydney at #WWW2025! Today I presented the paper "Causal modeling of climate activism on Reddit", the work done during my visiting period in Copenhagen with the amazing team @c0rrad0.bsky.social, @lajello.bsky.social, @gdfm.bsky.social! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

See you in the amazing Copenhagen! 🍻🇩🇰 Extended abstract of "Variational Inference on Parameters of Opinion Dynamics Models" accepted at @icwsm.bsky.social ! Big thanks to @gdfm.bsky.social and Fabrizio Silvestri! Check the arXiv arxiv.org/pdf/2403.05358 (TL;DR: Model + Data = ❤️)

Italian gestures at italian conference 🤌 Great vibes at #CS2Italy! I presented my last work during my 6 months with @nerdsitu.bsky.social ! Reddit data + social theory -> Causal model of climate activism! @lajello.bsky.social @c0rrad0.bsky.social @gdfm.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2410.10562

Huge turnout of NERDS (+alumni) at #cs2italy ! It is so great to get together + meet up with former visitors/group members.