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Information diffusion in interconnected heterogeneous networks

Social and Information Networks 2017-07-18 v1 Physics and Society

Abstract

In this paper, we are interested in modeling the diffusion of information in a multilayer network using thermodynamic diffusion approach. State of each agent is viewed as a topic mixture represented by a distribution over multiple topics. We have observed and learned diffusion-related thermodynamical patterns in the training data set, and we have used the estimated diffusion structure to predict the future states of the agents. A priori knowledge of a fraction of the state of all agents changes the problem to be a Kalman predictor problem that refines the predicted system state using the error in estimation of the agents. A real world Twitter data set is then used to evaluate and validate our information diffusion model.

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@article{arxiv.1707.05150,
  title  = {Information diffusion in interconnected heterogeneous networks},
  author = {Shahin Mahdizadehaghdam and Han Wang and Hamid Krim and Liyi Dai},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.05150},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

5-9 March 2017. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1602.04854

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