Giovanni Catania

@ucm.es

Departamento de Física Teórica
Universidad Complutense

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Statistical physics, machine learning, disordered systems, epidemic spreading, high-dimensional inference
146

Scholar Citations

7

Scholar h-index

4

Scholar i10-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • The symmetric perceptron: A teacher-student scenario
    G Catania, A Decelle, S Korpe
    Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 131544 , 2026
    2026
  • Uncovering statistical structure in large-scale neural activity with Restricted Boltzmann Machines
    N Béreux, G Catania, A Decelle, F Mignacco, AJN Gómez, B Seoane
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.11032 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 1
  • On the role of non-linear latent features in bipartite generative neural networks
    T Bonnaire, G Catania, A Decelle, B Seoane
    SciPost Physics 19 (6), 141 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Phenomenological psychopathology meets machine learning: A multicentric retrospective study (Mu. St. ARD) targeting the role of Aberrant Salience assessment in psychosis detection
    GP Merola, A Patti, G Catania, OB Boy, I Noschese, ÁR Becerra, ...
    Schizophrenia Research 281, 147-156 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 4
  • Small-Coupling Dynamic Cavity: a Bayesian mean-field framework for epidemic inference
    A Braunstein, G Catania, L Dall'Asta, M Mariani, F Mazza, M Tarabolo
    Physical Review Research 7 (2), 023089 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 7
  • A theoretical framework for overfitting in energy-based modeling
    G Catania, A Decelle, C Furtlehner, B Seoane
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.19158 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 10
  • Effectiveness of probabilistic contact tracing in epidemic containment: The role of superspreaders and transmission path reconstruction
    AP Muntoni, F Mazza, A Braunstein, G Catania, L Dall’Asta
    PNAS nexus 3 (9), pgae377 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 8
  • Copycat perceptron: Smashing barriers through collective learning
    G Catania, A Decelle, B Seoane
    Physical Review E 109 (6), 065313 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 5
  • Explaining the effects of non-convergent MCMC in the training of Energy-Based Models
    E Agoritsas, G Catania, A Decelle, B Seoane
    International Conference on Machine Learning, 322-336 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 28
  • Inference in conditioned dynamics through causality restoration
    A Braunstein, G Catania, L Dall’Asta, M Mariani, AP Muntoni
    Scientific Reports 13 (1), 7350 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 7
  • Thermodynamics of bidirectional associative memories
    A Barra, G Catania, A Decelle, B Seoane
    Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 56 (20), 205005 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 15
  • Epidemic mitigation by statistical inference from contact tracing data
    A Baker, I Biazzo, A Braunstein, G Catania, L Dall’Asta, A Ingrosso, ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (32), e2106548118 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 49
  • Approximate inference on graphical models: message-passing, loop-corrected methods and applications
    G Catania
    Politecnico di Torino , 2021
    2021
  • A density consistency approach to the inverse Ising problem
    A Braunstein, G Catania, L Dall’Asta, AP Muntoni
    Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2021 (3), 033416 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 4
  • Loop corrections in spin models through density consistency
    A Braunstein, G Catania, L Dall’Asta
    Physical Review Letters 123 (2), 020604 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 7

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Epidemic mitigation by statistical inference from contact tracing data
    A Baker, I Biazzo, A Braunstein, G Catania, L Dall’Asta, A Ingrosso, ...
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (32), e2106548118 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 49
  • Explaining the effects of non-convergent MCMC in the training of Energy-Based Models
    E Agoritsas, G Catania, A Decelle, B Seoane
    International Conference on Machine Learning, 322-336 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 28
  • Thermodynamics of bidirectional associative memories
    A Barra, G Catania, A Decelle, B Seoane
    Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical 56 (20), 205005 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 15
  • A theoretical framework for overfitting in energy-based modeling
    G Catania, A Decelle, C Furtlehner, B Seoane
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.19158 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 10
  • Effectiveness of probabilistic contact tracing in epidemic containment: The role of superspreaders and transmission path reconstruction
    AP Muntoni, F Mazza, A Braunstein, G Catania, L Dall’Asta
    PNAS nexus 3 (9), pgae377 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 8
  • Small-Coupling Dynamic Cavity: a Bayesian mean-field framework for epidemic inference
    A Braunstein, G Catania, L Dall'Asta, M Mariani, F Mazza, M Tarabolo
    Physical Review Research 7 (2), 023089 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 7
  • Inference in conditioned dynamics through causality restoration
    A Braunstein, G Catania, L Dall’Asta, M Mariani, AP Muntoni
    Scientific Reports 13 (1), 7350 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 7
  • Loop corrections in spin models through density consistency
    A Braunstein, G Catania, L Dall’Asta
    Physical Review Letters 123 (2), 020604 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 7
  • Copycat perceptron: Smashing barriers through collective learning
    G Catania, A Decelle, B Seoane
    Physical Review E 109 (6), 065313 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 5
  • Phenomenological psychopathology meets machine learning: A multicentric retrospective study (Mu. St. ARD) targeting the role of Aberrant Salience assessment in psychosis detection
    GP Merola, A Patti, G Catania, OB Boy, I Noschese, ÁR Becerra, ...
    Schizophrenia Research 281, 147-156 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 4
  • A density consistency approach to the inverse Ising problem
    A Braunstein, G Catania, L Dall’Asta, AP Muntoni
    Journal of Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Experiment 2021 (3), 033416 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 4
  • Uncovering statistical structure in large-scale neural activity with Restricted Boltzmann Machines
    N Béreux, G Catania, A Decelle, F Mignacco, AJN Gómez, B Seoane
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.11032 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 1
  • On the role of non-linear latent features in bipartite generative neural networks
    T Bonnaire, G Catania, A Decelle, B Seoane
    SciPost Physics 19 (6), 141 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • The symmetric perceptron: A teacher-student scenario
    G Catania, A Decelle, S Korpe
    Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 131544 , 2026
    2026
  • Approximate inference on graphical models: message-passing, loop-corrected methods and applications
    G Catania
    Politecnico di Torino , 2021
    2021