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most citedRethinking Scale: The Efficacy of Fine-Tuned Open-Source LLMs in Large-Scale Reproducible Social Science Research

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Dynamic Attention (DynAttn): Interpretable High-Dimensional Spatio-Temporal Forecasting (with Application to Conflict Fatalities)

Stefano M. Iacus, Haodong Qi, Marcello Carammia +1

Forecasting conflict-related fatalities remains a central challenge in political science and policy analysis due to the sparse, bursty, and highly non-stationary nature of violence…

econ.GN2025

Job Satisfaction Through the Lens of Social Media: Rural--Urban Patterns in the U.S

Stefano M Iacus, Giuseppe Porro

We analyze a novel large-scale social-media-based measure of U.S. job satisfaction, constructed by applying a fine-tuned large language model to 2.6 billion georeferenced tweets, a…

cs.CL2025

The Human Flourishing Geographic Index: A County-Level Dataset for the United States, 2013--2023

Stefano M. Iacus, Devika Jain, Andrea Nasuto +3

Quantifying human flourishing, a multidimensional construct including happiness, health, purpose, virtue, relationships, and financial stability, is critical for understanding soci…

cs.CL2025

Learning the Topic, Not the Language: How LLMs Classify Online Immigration Discourse Across Languages

Andrea Nasuto, Stefano Maria Iacus, Francisco Rowe +1

Large language models (LLMs) offer new opportunities for scalable analysis of online discourse. Yet their use in multilingual social science research remains constrained by model s…

cs.CL2025★ 1 cited

Deep literature reviews: an application of fine-tuned language models to migration research

Stefano M. Iacus, Haodong Qi, Jiyoung Han

This paper presents a hybrid framework for literature reviews that augments traditional bibliometric methods with large language models (LLMs). By fine-tuning open-source LLMs, our…