Network performance

how groups coordinate, seek knowledge, optimize and reach success

This work focuses on the social dynamics of knowledge exchange and learning that drive collaboration, collective intelligence, and discovery. Most problem-solving tasks are carried out in group or team settings, and require complex interactions that involve cognitive, social and informational exchange. The goal is to develop rigorous models and techniques to understand how groups reach consensus, achieve breakthroughs, and perform in groups.

Featured publications

The temporal dynamics of group interactions in higher-order social networks

Iacopo Iacopini, Márton Karsai, Alain Barrat
Nature Communications
August 27, 2024

Reconstructing higher-order interactions in coupled dynamical systems

Federico Malizia, Alessandra Corso, Lucia Valentina Gambuzza, Giovanni Russo, Vito Latora & Mattia Frasca
Nature Communications
June 18, 2024

Hyper-cores promote localization and efficient seeding in higher-order processes

Marco Mancastroppa, Iacopo Iacopini, Giovanni Petri & Alain Barrat
Nature Communications
October 6, 2023

Recent publications

City mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic: analysis of a global natural experiment

Ruth F Hunter, Selin Akaraci, Ruoyu Wang, Rodrigo Reis, Pedro C Hallal, Sandy Pentland, Christopher Millett, Leandro Garcia, Jason Thompson, Kerry Nice, Belen Zapata-Diomedi, Esteban Moro
The Lancet Public Health
November 1, 2024

Narrative-of-Thought: Improving Temporal Reasoning of Large Language Models via Recounted Narratives

Xinliang Frederick Zhang, Nick Beauchamp, Lu Wang
arXiv
October 7, 2024

The temporal dynamics of group interactions in higher-order social networks

Iacopo Iacopini, Márton Karsai, Alain Barrat
Nature Communications
August 27, 2024

Spontaneous opinion swings in the voter model with latency

Giovanni Palermo, Anna Mancini, Antonio Desiderio, Riccardo Di Clemente, and Giulio Cimini
Physical Review E
August 26, 2024

Higher-Order Null Models as a Lens for Social Systems

Giulia Preti, Adriano Fazzone, Giovanni Petri, Gianmarco De Francisci Morales
Physical Review X
August 20, 2024
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Featured news coverage

Why Experts Reject Creativity

The Atlantic, October 2014

Featured project

The Science of Success project focuses on developing measures and methods to model and predict success in a range of settings that have quantifiable indicators of performance (e.g., science, sports, software development). Driven by the hypothesis that success is not an individual phenomenon, but rather a collective one, we use large-scale data sets to identify patterns of career paths, individual and team performance, and the dynamics of impact and attribution. Findings offer actionable information towards a quantitative evaluation of success in a diverse range of competitive settings, from science to sports to software development.

Major funders

DARPA, Army Research Office, AFOSR