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Traditionally, Recommender Systems (RS) have primarily measured performance based on the accuracy and relevance of their recommendations. However, this algorithmic-centric approach overlooks how different types of recommendations impact…

Physical kinetic roughening processes are well known to exhibit universal scaling of observables that fluctuate in space and time. Are there analogous dynamic scaling laws that are unique to the chemical reaction mechanisms available…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-17 Shrabani Mondal , Jonah S. Greenberg , Jason R. Green

Most existing recommender systems leverage user behavior data of one type only, such as the purchase behavior in E-commerce that is directly related to the business KPI (Key Performance Indicator) of conversion rate. Besides the key…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Chen Gao , Xiangnan He , Dahua Gan , Xiangning Chen , Fuli Feng , Yong Li , Tat-Seng Chua , Lina Yao , Yang Song , Depeng Jin

The widespread adoption of online courses opens opportunities for the analysis of learner behaviour and for the optimisation of web-based material adapted to observed usage. Here we introduce a mathematical framework for the analysis of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Robert L. Peach , Sophia N. Yaliraki , David Lefevre , Mauricio Barahona

Online communities, which have become an integral part of the day-to-day life of people and organizations, exhibit much diversity in both size and activity level; some communities grow to a massive scale and thrive, whereas others remain…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-03-06 Yaniv Dover , Guy Kelman

The emergence of online social platforms, such as social networks and social media, has drastically affected the way people apprehend the information flows to which they are exposed. In such platforms, various information cascades spreading…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Gaspard Abel , Argyris Kalogeratos , Jean-Pierre Nadal , Julien Randon-Furling

In recent years, the success of large language models (LLMs) has driven the exploration of scaling laws in recommender systems. However, models that demonstrate scaling laws are actually challenging to deploy in industrial settings for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Weijiang Lai , Beihong Jin , Di Zhang , Siru Chen , Jiongyan Zhang , Yuhang Gou , Jian Dong , Xingxing Wang

The accurate estimation of human activity in cities is one of the first steps towards understanding the structure of the urban environment. Human activities are highly granular and dynamic in spatial and temporal dimensions. Estimating…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Roberto Murcio , Balamurugan Soundararaj

Recommender systems shape individual choices through feedback loops in which user behavior and algorithmic recommendations coevolve over time. The systemic effects of these loops remain poorly understood, in part due to unrealistic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Gabriele Barlacchi , Margherita Lalli , Emanuele Ferragina , Fosca Giannotti , Dino Pedreschi , Luca Pappalardo

The majority of existing recommender systems rely on user ratings, which are limited by the lack of user collaboration and the sparsity problem. To address these issues, this study proposes a behavior-based recommender system that leverages…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Reza Barzegar Nozari , Mahdi Divsalar , Sepehr Akbarzadeh Abkenar , Mohammadreza Fadavi Amiri , Ali Divsalar

In the last decade, the digital age has sharply redefined the way we study human behavior. With the advancement of data storage and sensing technologies, electronic records now encompass a diverse spectrum of human activity, ranging from…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Sharon Xu , Riccardo Di Clemente , Marta C. González

We study behavioral action sequences of players in a massive multiplayer online game. In their virtual life players use eight basic actions which allow them to interact with each other. These actions are communication, trade, establishing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-06-15 Stefan Thurner , Michel Szell , Roberta Sinatra

This paper is to analyze the properties of evolving bipartite networks from four aspects, the growth of networks, the degree distribution, the popularity of objects and the diversity of user behaviours, leading a deep understanding on the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-10-29 Xin-Yi Lu , Jian-Hong Lin , Qiang Guo , Jian-Guo Liu

How do users behave in online chatrooms, where they instantaneously read and write posts? We analyzed about 2.5 million posts covering various topics in Internet relay channels, and found that user activity patterns follow known power-law…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-05-14 Antonios Garas , David Garcia , Marcin Skowron , Frank Schweitzer

The observable behavior of a complex system reflects the mechanisms governing the internal interactions between the system's components and the effect of external perturbations. Here we show that by capturing the simultaneous activity of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Argollo de Menezes , A. -L. Barabasi

Zipf-like distributions characterize a wide set of phenomena in physics, biology, economics and social sciences. In human activities, Zipf-laws describe for example the frequency of words appearance in a text or the purchases types in…

Active glasses refer to a class of driven non-equilibrium systems that share remarkably similar dynamical behavior as conventional glass-formers in equilibrium. Glass-like dynamical characteristics have been observed in various biological…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-12-24 Subhodeep Dey , Smarajit Karmakar

Novel aspects of human dynamics and social interactions are investigated by means of mobile phone data. Using extensive phone records resolved in both time and space, we study the mean collective behavior at large scales and focus on the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Candia , M. C. González , P. Wang , T. Schoenharl , G. Madey , A. -L. Barabási

News consumption behavior is shaped by the coupling between temporal dynamics and content selection. This study proposes a multi-scale temporal-content framework and validates it on two large real-world news datasets, MIND and Adressa.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Jipeng Tan , Mengye Yang , Zhanghao Li , Yong Min

In the physical world, people have dynamic preferences, e.g., the same situation can lead to satisfaction for some humans and to frustration for others. Personalization is called for. The same observation holds for online behavior with…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-16 Ziming Li , Julia Kiseleva , Maarten de Rijke , Artem Grotov