Corrado Monti

Learning Individual Behavior in Agent-Based Models with Graph Diffusion Networks

Francesco Cozzi, Marco Pangallo, Alan Perotti, André Panisson, Corrado Monti

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 2025 (NeurIPS 2025).

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Agent-based models capture how local decisions give rise to collective phenomena, but are rarely learnable from real data. This study introduces a differentiable framework that reconstructs individual behavioral rules while preserving interaction structure and stochasticity through the integration of graph neural networks and diffusion models. The approach bridges mechanistic modeling and machine learning, enabling empirical testing of theories about decentralized and emergent social and ecological systems.

Posted on Wed 31 December 2025