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Randomized rumor spreading processes diffuse information on an undirected graph and have been widely studied. In this work, we present a generic framework for analyzing a broad class of such processes on regular graphs. Our analysis is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Charlotte Out , Nicolás Rivera , Thomas Sauerwald , John Sylvester

We investigate the problem of sequentially predicting the binary labels on the nodes of an arbitrary weighted graph. We show that, under a suitable parametrization of the problem, the optimal number of prediction mistakes can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-12-27 Nicolo' Cesa-Bianchi , Claudio Gentile , Fabio Vitale , Giovanni Zappella

Diffusion source identification on networks is a problem of fundamental importance in a broad class of applications, including rumor controlling and virus identification. Though this problem has received significant recent attention, most…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Quinlan Dawkins , Tianxi Li , Haifeng Xu

Exchangeable random graphs, which include some of the most widely studied network models, have emerged as the mainstay of statistical network analysis in recent years. Graphons, which are the central objects in graph limit theory, provide a…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Anirban Chatterjee , Soham Dan , Bhaswar B. Bhattacharya

We consider the problem of locating the source of a network cascade, given a noisy time-series of network data. Initially, the cascade starts with one unknown, affected vertex and spreads deterministically at each time step. The goal is to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-05-22 Anirudh Sridhar , H. Vincent Poor

Broadcasting algorithms are important building blocks of distributed systems. In this work we investigate the typical performance of the classical and well-studied push model. Assume that initially one node in a given network holds some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-02-19 Nikolaos Fountoulakis , Konstantinos Panagiotou

The Maki-Thompson rumor model is defined by assuming that a population represented by a graph is subdivided into three classes of individuals; namely, ignorants, spreaders and stiflers. A spreader tells the rumor to any of its nearest…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-01-05 Valdivino V. Junior , Pablo M. Rodriguez , Adalto Speroto

To manage the rumors in social media to reduce the harm of rumors in society. Many studies used methods of deep learning to detect rumors in open networks. To comprehensively sort out the research status of rumor detection from multiple…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Li Tan , Ge Wang , Feiyang Jia , Xiaofeng Lian

Rumor detection on social media has become increasingly important. Most existing graph-based models presume rumor propagation trees (RPTs) have deep structures and learn sequential stance features along branches. However, through…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Chaoqun Cui , Caiyan Jia

How can we localize the source of diffusion in a complex network? Due to the tremendous size of many real networks--such as the Internet or the human social graph--it is usually infeasible to observe the state of all nodes in a network. We…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-11 Pedro C. Pinto , Patrick Thiran , Martin Vetterli

Recently, online social media has become a primary source for new information and misinformation or rumours. In the absence of an automatic rumour detection system the propagation of rumours has increased manifold leading to serious…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Shaswat Patel , Prince Bansal , Preeti Kaur

Identifying the most influential nodes in information networks has been the focus of many research studies. This problem has crucial applications in various contexts, such as controlling the propagation of viruses or rumours in real-world…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ahmad Asgharian Rezaei , Justin Munoz , Mahdi Jalili , Hamid Khayyam

We consider a gossip network, consisting of $n$ nodes, which tracks the information at a source. The source updates its information with a Poisson arrival process and also sends updates to the nodes in the network. The nodes themselves can…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Purbesh Mitra , Sennur Ulukus

Social media has been developing rapidly in public due to its nature of spreading new information, which leads to rumors being circulated. Meanwhile, detecting rumors from such massive information in social media is becoming an arduous…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Tian Bian , Xi Xiao , Tingyang Xu , Peilin Zhao , Wenbing Huang , Yu Rong , Junzhou Huang

We propose a new protocol solving the fundamental problem of disseminating a piece of information to all members of a group of n players. It builds upon the classical randomized rumor spreading protocol and several extensions. The main…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Benjamin Doerr , Mahmoud Fouz

We study information gathering in ad-hoc radio networks. Initially, each node of the network has a piece of information called a rumor, and the overall objective is to gather all these rumors in the designated target node. The ad-hoc…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Marek Chrobak , Kevin P. Costello

Suppose that a cascade (e.g., an epidemic) spreads on an unknown graph, and only the infection times of vertices are observed. What can be learned about the graph from the infection times caused by multiple distinct cascades? Most of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-05-07 Elchanan Mossel , Anirudh Sridhar

The spread of fake news has long been a social issue and the necessity of identifying it has become evident since its dangers are well recognized. In addition to causing uneasiness among the public, it has even more devastating…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Yuxuan Tian

We consider information dissemination over a network of gossiping agents (nodes). In this model, a source keeps the most up-to-date information about a time-varying binary state of the world, and $n$ receiver nodes want to follow the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Melih Bastopcu , S. Rasoul Etesami , Tamer Başar

We investigate the behaviour of five classical centrality measures--Jordan, rumor, betweenness, degree, and closeness centralities--in the setting of uniform random recursive trees. Motivated by applications in network archaeology, we focus…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-23 Richard Coll Josifov , Luc Devroye , Gabor Lugosi