10 papers
Deal Me Maybe: The Role of Emotions in Multi-Agent Negotiation
Massimiliano Luca, Apoorva Singh, Bruno Lepri
Negotiation is a demanding social task for LLM agents, requiring strategic reasoning, persuasion, and interpersonal adaptation. Yet existing benchmarks often treat agents as emotio…
AI's Blind Spots: Geographic Knowledge and Diversity Deficit in Generated Urban Scenario
Ciro Beneduce, Massimiliano Luca, Bruno Lepri
Diffusion-based text-to-image models are increasingly used for urban analysis and scenario generation, but their geographic knowledge and representational biases remain poorly unde…
pySpainMobility: Unlocking Spanish Open Mobility Data for Spatial Inequality Research
Ciro Beneduce, Tania Gullón Muñoz-Repiso, Bruno Lepri +1
Human mobility shapes access to resources, opportunities, and services, making movement data a powerful lens for studying spatial and social inequality. Yet despite the growing ava…
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Can VLM Agents Tell Who They Are at All?
Filippo Ziliotto, Ciro Beneduce, Bruno Lepri +3
In the animal kingdom, mirror self-recognition is a canonical probe of higher-order cognition, emerging only in some species. We ask whether an analogous functional capability emer…
A City-Scale Dataset of Traffic Flows, Travel Times, and Urban Context
Riccardo Cappi, Massimiliano Luca, Pietro Fontolan +3
We present a multi-source traffic dataset derived from Automatic Vehicle Identification (AVI) recordings in Padua, Italy, spanning from February 2026 to April 2026. The dataset com…
The LLM Wears Prada: Analysing Gender Bias and Stereotypes through Online Shopping Data
Massimiliano Luca, Ciro Beneduce, Bruno Lepri +1
With the wide and cross-domain adoption of Large Language Models, it becomes crucial to assess to which extent the statistical correlations in training data, which underlie their i…