3 papers
stat.AP2025
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…
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.CL2024
Rethinking Scale: The Efficacy of Fine-Tuned Open-Source LLMs in Large-Scale Reproducible Social Science Research
Marcello Carammia, Stefano Maria Iacus, Giuseppe Porro
Large Language Models (LLMs) are distinguished by their architecture, which dictates their parameter size and performance capabilities. Social scientists have increasingly adopted…