Find below EMERGE’s news articles, press releases, digests of scientific publications, as well as other outreach materials.
Publication: AI’s assigned gender affects human-AI cooperation
19 December 2025
In this study, EMERGE partners from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich investigates how cooperation varies with the gender labels assigned to AI partners.
Publication: SONAR: Long-Range Graph Propagation Through Information Waves
01 December 2025
In this work, EMERGE partners from the University of Pisa introduce SONAR, a novel GNN architecture inspired by the dynamics of wave propagation in continuous media.
Publication: A Framework for the Examination of Awareness in Artificial Systems
25 November 2025
In this work, EMERGE partners propose a novel and tractable approach to measure the impact of awareness on system performance, structured around distinct dimensions of awareness – temporal, spatial, metacognitive, self and agentive.
Publication: Direct Feedback Alignment for Recurrent Neural Networks
24 November 2025
In this work, EMERGE partners from the University of Pisa adapt Direct Feedback Alignment (DFA) for both “vanilla” and gated recurrent networks.
Publication: Residual Reservoir Memory Networks
14 November 2025
In this work, EMERGE partners from the University of Pisa introduce a novel class of untrained RNNs within the Reservoir Computing (RC) paradigm, called Residual Reservoir Memory Networks (ResRMNs).
Publication: Non-Dissipative Graph Propagation for Non-Local Community Detection
14 November 2025
In this paper, EMERGE partners from the University of Pisa introduce a novel unsupervised community detection approach leveraging non-dissipative dynamical systems to ensure stability and to propagate long-range information effectively.
Publication: All-in-one: Understanding and Generation in Multimodal Reasoning with the MAIA Benchmark
09 November 2025
In this work, EMERGE partners from the University of Pisa introduce MAIA (Multimodal AI Assessment), a native-Italian benchmark designed for fine-grained investigation of the reasoning abilities of visual language models on videos.
Publication: Towards Understanding the Impact of Swarm Motion on Human Trust
03 November 2025
In this work, EMERGE partners from the University of Bristol examine how swarm motion affects the trust of novice users in a service-oriented swarm, using an automated cloakroom as a test case.
Publication: Distributed Spatial Awareness for Robot Swarms
02 November 2025
In this work, EMERGE partners from the University of Bristol use local observations by robots of each other and Gaussian Belief Propagation message passing combined with continuous swarm movement to build a global and distributed swarm-centric frame of reference.
