Demo Data from VLDB 2026 / reviewers in the wild / expert
Federico Capannoli
dblp:421/8512
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Theoretical computer science
1 paper |
Graph algorithms and graph theory · 100% | |
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Computational social science and digital humanities · 100% | |
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning · 100% |
Topics — the 5 heaviest of 5, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Computational social science and digital humanities
opinion dynamics |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | A Phase Transition for Opinion Dynamics with Competing Biases · AAAI 2026 |
Graph algorithms and graph theory › graph theory
degree sequence |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | A Phase Transition for Opinion Dynamics with Competing Biases · AAAI 2026 |
Graph algorithms and graph theory
directed graph |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | A Phase Transition for Opinion Dynamics with Competing Biases · AAAI 2026 |
Graph algorithms and graph theory
random graphs |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | A Phase Transition for Opinion Dynamics with Competing Biases · AAAI 2026 |
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning
stochastic processes |
0.3 | 1 | 2026 | A Phase Transition for Opinion Dynamics with Competing Biases · AAAI 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
nonlinear opinion update · 3.0coalescing branching dying particle system · 3.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | A Phase Transition for Opinion Dynamics with Competing BiasesabstractWe study the nonlinear evolution of binary opinions in a population of agents connected by a directed network, influenced by two competing forces. On the one hand agents are stubborn, i.e., have a tendency for one of the two opinions; on the other hand there is a disruptive bias that drives the agents toward the opposite opinion. The disruptive bias models external factors such as market innovations or social controllers aiming to challenge the status quo, while stubbornness reinforces the initial opinion making it harder for the external bias to drive the process toward change. Each agent updates its opinion according to a nonlinear rule that takes into account the opinions of its neighbors and the strength of the disruptive bias. We focus on random directed graphs with prescribed in- and out-degree sequences and prove that the dynamics exhibits a phase transition. When the disruptive bias is stronger than a certain critical threshold, the entire population rapidly converges to a consensus on the disruptive opinion. When the bias is weaker than this threshold, the system enters a metastable state in which only a fraction of the population adopts the new opinion, and this partial adoption persists for a long time. We explicitly characterize both the critical threshold and the long-term adoption fraction, showing that they depend only on few simple statistics of the degree sequences. Our analysis relies on a dual system of coalescing, branching, and dying particles, whose behavior is equivalent and allows a rigorous characterization of the system's dynamics. Our results characterize the interplay between the degree of the agents, their stubbornness, and the external bias, shedding light on the tipping points of opinion dynamics in networks. Federico Capannoli, Emilio Cruciani, Hlafo Alfie Mimun, Matteo Quattropani |
AAAI | 1 |