3 papers
physics.soc-ph2025
Polarization and echo chambers in Reddit's political discourse
Daniele Cirulli, Antonio Desiderio, Giulio Cimini +1
Political debate nowadays takes place mainly on online social media, with election periods amplifying ideological engagement. Reddit is generally considered more resistant to polar…
cs.CL2025
How Large Language Models play humans in online conversations: a simulated study of the 2016 US politics on Reddit
Daniele Cirulli, Giulio Cimini, Giovanni Palermo
Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently emerged as powerful tools for natural language generation, with applications spanning from content creation to social simulations. Their…
cond-mat.stat-mech2025
Maximum entropy modeling of Optimal Transport: the sub-optimality regime and the transition from dense to sparse networks
Lorenzo Buffa, Dario Mazzilli, Riccardo Piombo +3
We present a bipartite network model that captures intermediate stages of optimization by blending the Maximum Entropy approach with Optimal Transport. In this framework, the netwo…