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most citedLarge Language Models (LLMs) as Agents for Augmented Democracy

394 citations

140 papers

cs.CY2026

Too much of a good thing? Entrepreneurial orientation and the non-linear governance effects of SaaS platforms

Jacopo Ballerini, Magali Pino, Michal Kuděj +1

This study investigates how entrepreneurial orientation (EO) affects governance of SaaS platforms in SMEs, including strategy alignment and long-term governance performance. This s…

stat.ME2025

Refined thresholds for inconsistency: The effect of the graph associated with incomplete pairwise comparisons

Kolos Csaba Ágoston, László Csató

The inconsistency of pairwise comparisons remains difficult to interpret in the absence of acceptability thresholds. The popular 10% cut-off rule proposed by Saaty has recently bee…

econ.GN2025

Are penalty shootouts better than a coin toss? Evidence from international club football in Europe

László Csató, Dóra Gréta Petróczy

Penalty shootouts play a crucial role in the knockout stage of major football tournaments. Their importance has substantially increased from the 2021/22 season, when the Union of E…

math.OC2025

An experimental approach: Converting verbal expressions to numerical scales

Zsombor Szádoczki, Sándor Bozóki, László Sipos +1

One of the key issues in decision problems is the selection and use of the appropriate response scale. In this paper verbal expressions are converted into numerical scales for a su…

physics.soc-ph2025

Evolution and determinants of firm-level systemic risk in local production networks

Anna Mancini, Balázs Lengyel, Riccardo Di Clemente +1

Recent crises like the Covid-19 pandemic and geopolitical tensions have exposed vulnerabilities and caused disruptions of supply chains, leading to product shortages, increased cos…

econ.TH2025★ 2 cited

Binary Self-Selective Voting Rules

Héctor Hermida-Rivera, Toygar T. Kerman

This paper introduces a novel binary stability property for voting rules-called binary self-selectivity-by which a society considering whether to replace its voting rule using itse…

econ.GN2025★ 8 cited

Augmenting the availability of historical GDP per capita estimates through machine learning

Philipp Koch, Viktor Stojkoski, César A. Hidalgo

Can we use data on the biographies of historical figures to estimate the GDP per capita of countries and regions? Here we introduce a machine learning method to estimate the GDP pe…

cs.LG2025

ALT: A Python Package for Lightweight Feature Representation in Time Series Classification

Balázs P. Halmos, Balázs Hajós, Vince Á. Molnár +2

We introduce ALT, an open-source Python package created for efficient and accurate time series classification (TSC). The package implements the adaptive law-based transformation (A…

stat.ME2025

Eigenvalue-Based Randomness Test for Residual Diagnostics in Panel Data Models

Marcell T. Kurbucz, Betsabé Pérez Garrido, Antal Jakovác

This paper introduces the Eigenvalue-Based Randomness (EBR) test - a novel approach rooted in the Tracy-Widom law from random matrix theory - and applies it to the context of resid…

physics.soc-ph2025★ 3 cited

Ranking matters: Does the new format select the best teams for the knockout phase in the UEFA Champions League?

László Csató, Karel Devriesere, Dries Goossens +3

Starting in the 2024/25 season, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has fundamentally changed the format of its club competitions: the group stage has been replaced…

hep-th2025

Existence theorem on the UV limit of Wilsonian RG flows of Feynman measures

Andras Laszlo, Zsigmond Tarcsay, Jobst Ziebell

In nonperturbative formulation of Euclidean signature quantum field theory (QFT), the vacuum state is characterized by the Wilsonian renormalization group (RG) flow of Feynman meas…

math.OC2025

Increasing competitiveness by imbalanced groups: The example of the 48-team FIFA World Cup

László Csató, András Gyimesi

A match played in a sports tournament can be called stakeless if at least one team is indifferent to its outcome because it already has qualified or has been eliminated. Such a gam…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Adaptive Law-Based Transformation (ALT): A Lightweight Feature Representation for Time Series Classification

Marcell T. Kurbucz, Balázs Hajós, Balázs P. Halmos +2

Time series classification (TSC) is fundamental in numerous domains, including finance, healthcare, and environmental monitoring. However, traditional TSC methods often struggle wi…

econ.GN2024★ 1 cited

Swiss-system chess tournaments and unfairness

László Csató, Alex Krumer

The Swiss system is an increasingly popular competition format as it provides a favourable trade-off between the number of matches and ranking accuracy. However, there is no empiri…

cs.DL2024★ 1 cited

Measuring Research Interest Similarity with Transition Probabilities

Attila Varga, Sadamori Kojaku, Filipi Nascimento Silva

We introduce a family of paper and author similarity measures based on the concept that papers are more similar if they are more likely to be retrieved during a literature search f…

econ.GN2024★ 4 cited

The Software Complexity of Nations

Sándor Juhász, Johannes Wachs, Jermain Kaminski +1

Despite the growing importance of the digital sector, research on economic complexity and its implications continues to rely mostly on administrative records, e.g. data on exports,…

cs.CY2024★ 2 cited

Exploring LGBTQ+ Bias in Generative AI Answers across Different Country and Religious Contexts

Lilla Vicsek, Anna Vancsó, Mike Zajko +1

Previous discussions have highlighted the need for generative AI tools to become more culturally sensitive, yet often neglect the complexities of handling content about minorities,…

econ.GN2024★ 6 cited

Competitive balance in the UEFA Champions League group stage: Novel measures show no evidence of decline

László Csató, Dóra Gréta Petróczy

Competitive balance, which refers to the level of control teams have over a sports competition, is a crucial indicator for tournament organisers. According to previous studies, com…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 5 cited

Misaligned incentives in sports: A mathematical analysis of the post-2024 UEFA Champions League qualification

László Csató, Sergey Ilyin

UEFA declares that it is committed to respecting the fundamental values of sports. However, the qualification rules of the post-2024 UEFA Champions League are shown to be unfair: a…

cs.CY2024★ 394 cited

Large Language Models (LLMs) as Agents for Augmented Democracy

Jairo Gudiño-Rosero, Umberto Grandi, César A. Hidalgo

We explore an augmented democracy system built on off-the-shelf LLMs fine-tuned to augment data on citizen's preferences elicited over policies extracted from the government progra…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 5 cited

The dynamics of leadership and success in software development teams

Lorenzo Betti, Luca Gallo, Johannes Wachs +1

From science to industry, teamwork plays a crucial role in knowledge production and innovation. Most studies consider teams as static groups of individuals, thereby failing to capt…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 24 cited

Urban highways are barriers to social ties

Luca Maria Aiello, Anastassia Vybornova, Sándor Juhász +2

Urban highways are common, especially in the US, making cities more car-centric. They promise the annihilation of distance but obstruct pedestrian mobility, thus playing a key role…

physics.soc-ph2024★ 33 cited

Tournament design: A review from an operational research perspective

Karel Devriesere, László Csató, Dries Goossens

Every sport needs rules. Tournament design refers to the rules that determine how a tournament, a series of games between a number of competitors, is organized. This study aims to…

math.FA2024★ 1 cited

Isometries of Lipschitz-free Banach spaces

Marek Cúth, Michal Doucha, Tamás Titkos

We describe surjective linear isometries and linear isometry groups of a large class of Lipschitz-free spaces that includes e.g. Lipschitz-free spaces over any graph. We define the…