3 papers
physics.soc-ph2026
Multi-strain spreading dynamics under arbitrary transmission kernels
Sagar Kumar, Moritz Laber, Maimuna S. Majumder +2
Compartmental models of epidemic dynamics have long described the propagation of a single, immutable transmissible state through a population via pairwise contact, and multi-strain…
physics.soc-ph2026
A Blue Start: A large-scale pairwise and higher-order social network dataset
Alyssa Smith, Ilya Amburg, Sagar Kumar +2
Large-scale networks have been instrumental in shaping how we think about social systems, and have undergirded many foundational results in mathematical epidemiology, computational…
cs.HC2026
When Life Gives You AI, Will You Turn It Into A Market for Lemons? Understanding How Information Asymmetries About AI System Capabilities Affect Market Outcomes and Adoption
Alexander Erlei, Federico Cau, Radoslav Georgiev +3
AI consumer markets are characterized by severe buyer-supplier market asymmetries. Complex AI systems can appear highly accurate while making costly errors or embedding hidden defe…