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Researchers at the HSE Laboratory for Social and Cognitive Informatics in St. Petersburg, led by Sergey Koltcov, have learned to quickly reduce the size of neural networks without losing quality using statistical physics methods.

The center’s staff presented at several significant scientific forums, sharing the results of their research and technologies at the intersection of neuroscience and artificial intelligence.

On November 19, 2025, Ilya Naidanov, a graduate of the PhD program in Applied Economics, presented at the research seminar of the International Laboratory of Intangible-driven Economy (IDLab). He shared findings from the study titled "The Impact of Social Media Comments on the Profitability of Russian Companies," conducted jointly with Marina Zaveryaeva, a research fellow at the laboratory. The research was carried out with the support of the Russian Science Foundation (RSF) grant № 23-78-10149 "Factors of Intensification of SME Resources under External Uncertainty."

Within the framework of the HSE University Expert and analytical forum, a session of experts from the Institute for Public Administration and Governance (HSE University), including staff from the International Laboratory for Digital Transformation in Public Administration was held. The participants discussed their experience in attracting young HSE researchers to expert and analytical work, as well as the specifics of interaction with experienced experts and representatives of a government customer. 

The neural network analysed nearly a million 12×12 m plots and found that the rate of shrub spread varies from 2.4% to 26.1% per decade, depending on local conditions. The study showed that mature shrubs prefer well-drained slopes, while new colonisation occurs on flatter areas, which opens up opportunities for predicting further shrubification of the Arctic under climate change conditions

Articles by members of the IL LogLinFP have been published in the journal "Logical Investigations".

The article "NP-Completeness of the Hanabi Game with Minimal Parameters" by Anastasia Onoprienko has been published in the journal "Proceedings of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Mathematics, Informatics, Control Processes".

On November 21-22, a conference dedicated to World Philosophy Day and the Days of Philosophy in Saint Petersburg was held, where Maxim Evstigneev and Anna Moiseeva delivered presentations.

On Sociologist's Day, November 14, the Shaninka Library hosted the awards ceremony for the BA Grushin Book Sociology Prize. Among this year's nominees was the almanac "Exploring the Deaf Community: 1," published following the conference "What Does It Mean to Be Deaf: New Challenges for the Community," edited by Nikita Bolshakov, leading research fellow at the International Laboratory for Social Integration Research, and Vlad Kolesnikov, curator of the GES-2 Community Center.

On November 20, a conference dedicated to World Philosophy Day was held at the Institute of Philosophy and Law of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IFP SB RAS), where Maxim Evstigneev delivered a presentation titled "Locke and Kant on the Foundation of Mathematical Certainty."