collaborators

7 papers

physics.soc-ph2025

One pathogen does not an epidemic make: A review of interacting contagions, diseases, beliefs, and stories

Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Yong-Yeol Ahn, Antoine Allard +15

From pathogens and computer viruses to genes and memes, contagion models have found widespread utility across the natural and social sciences. Despite their success and breadth of…

cs.SI2025

Message passing for epidemiological interventions on networks with loops

Erik Weis, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Jean-Gabriel Young

Spreading models capture key dynamics on networks, such as cascading failures in economic systems, (mis)information diffusion, and pathogen transmission. Here, we focus on design i…

q-bio.PE2025

Sensitivity analysis of epidemic forecasting and spreading on networks with probability generating functions

Mariah C. Boudreau, William H. W. Thompson, Christopher M. Danforth +2

Epidemic forecasting tools embrace the stochasticity and heterogeneity of disease spread to predict the growth and size of outbreaks. Conceptually, stochasticity and heterogeneity…

stat.CO2025

Symmetry-driven embedding of networks in hyperbolic space

Simon Lizotte, Jean-Gabriel Young, Antoine Allard

Hyperbolic models are known to produce networks with properties observed empirically in most network datasets, including heavy-tailed degree distribution, high clustering, and hier…

physics.soc-ph2025

Governance as a complex, networked, democratic, satisfiability problem

Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Nicholas W. Landry, Juniper Lovato +6

Democratic governments comprise a subset of a population whose goal is to produce coherent decisions, solving societal challenges while respecting the will of the people. New gover…

cs.SI2025

Network compression with configuration models and the minimum description length

Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Jean-Gabriel Young, Alexander Daniels +2

Random network models, constrained to reproduce specific statistical features, are often used to represent and analyze network data and their mathematical descriptions. Chief among…