Andrea Failla
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  • Teaching
    • Network Analysis and Visualization
    • Generative AI and Large Language Models
    • Online Social Network Analysis and Mining
  • Events & Talks
    • Simulated Societies – From Opinion Dynamic Models to Digital Twins
    • TENET (2nd ed.)
    • HyperSCI (2nd ed.)
    • The Social Media Sway – Unraveling the Impact of Social Media on Human Behavior (2nd ed.)
    • LSAI (2nd ed.)
    • TENET
    • LSAI
    • HyperSCI
    • Invited Talk @ Colorful Seminars
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    • YSocial: AI-powered Social Media Virtual Twin
    • Bluesky Social Dataset
    • LifeCycles
    • pix2beats
    • Diff2Gif
    • ASH
  • Publications
    • Characterizing User Archetypes and Discussions on Social Hypernetworks
    • Generalizing Hypergraph Ego-Networks and Their Temporal Stability
    • Whose Voice Matters? Authority
    • "I'm in the Bluesky Tonight": Insights from a Year Worth of Social Data
    • “I’m in the bluesky tonight”: insights from a year worth of social data
    • Beyond Boundaries: Capturing Social Segregation on Hypernetworks
    • Bots of a feather: mixing biases in LLMs’ opinion dynamics
    • Characterizing User Archetypes and Discussions on Scored. co
    • Describing group evolution in temporal data using multi-faceted events
    • FairNet: A Genetic Framework to Reduce Marginalization in Social Networks
    • FairNet: A Genetic Framework to Reduce Marginalization in Social Networks
    • From perils to possibilities: understanding how human (and AI) biases affect online Fora
    • From Perils to Possibilities: Understanding how Human (and AI) Biases affect Online Fora
    • Quantifying Attraction to Extreme Opinions in Online Debates
    • Quantifying Attraction to Extreme Opinions in Online Debates
    • Whose Voice Matters? Authority and Influence in the Italian Twitter Debates on Covid-19
    • Y social: an llm-powered social media digital twin
    • Y Social: an LLM-powered Social Media Digital Twin
    • Attributed stream hypergraphs: temporal modeling of node-attributed high-order interactions
    • Attributed Stream Hypergraphs: temporal modeling of node-attributed high-order interactions
    • Attributed Stream-Hypernetwork Analysis: a SocioPatterns Case Study.
    • Attributed Stream-Hypernetwork Analysis: a SocioPatterns Case Study.
    • Attributed stream-hypernetwork analysis: homophilic behaviors in pairwise and group political discussions on reddit
    • Attributed stream-hypernetwork analysis: homophilic behaviors in pairwise and group political discussions on reddit
    • Attributed Stream-Hypernetwork Analysis: homophilic behaviors in pairwise and group political discussions on reddit
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YSocial: AI-powered Social Media Virtual Twin

Jan 1, 2025 · 1 min read
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YSocial is an open-source AI-driven social media simulator for studying social dynamics, recommender effects, and misinformation in a controlled environment.

Last updated on Jan 1, 2025
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Andrea Failla
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