Alvaro Franco Martins
Alvaro Franco Martins
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Criminal networks
The global network of organized crime
I built CRIMENET, an open-source network of 1,890 criminal organizations and 3,354 alliances and rivalries between them, extracted from 771 Wikipedia articles with an LLM pipeline.
Alvaro Franco Martins
Apr 28, 2026
criminal_networks
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organized_crime
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artificial_intelligence
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I let two AIs talk about my PhD thesis
Two AIs having a conversation
Alvaro Franco Martins
Sep 20, 2024
deep_learning
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criminal_networks
Deep learning criminal networks
Deep learning methods are used to predict properties of criminal networks.
Alvaro Franco Martins
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Bruno R. da Cunha
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Quentin S. Hanley
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Sebastian Goncalves
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Matjaz Perc
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Haroldo V. Ribeiro
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Machine learning partners in criminal networks
We have demonstrated how structural properties of criminal networks and machine learning methods can be used to predict links and link features among actors engaged in nefarious activities.
Diego Domingues Lopes
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Bruno R. da Cunha
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Alvaro Franco Martins
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Sebastian Goncalves
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Ervin K. Lenzi
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Quentin S. Hanley
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Matjaz Perc
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Haroldo V. Ribeiro
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Universality of political corruption networks
Our results show that corruption networks share universal characteristics that are independent of social and cultural differences among countries.
Alvaro Franco Martins
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Bruno R. da Cunha
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Quentin S. Hanley
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Sebastian Goncalves
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Matjaz Perc
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Haroldo V. Ribeiro
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