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It is well understood that the structure of a social network is critical to whether or not agents can aggregate information correctly. In this paper, we study social networks that support information aggregation when rational agents act…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-11-11 Itai Arieli , Fedor Sandomirskiy , Rann Smorodinsky

We study the properties of conformal prediction for network data under various sampling mechanisms that commonly arise in practice but often result in a non-representative sample of nodes. We interpret these sampling mechanisms as selection…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-14 Robert Lunde

We study the effects of nonreciprocity and network structure on percolation. To this end, we investigate nonreciprocal random networks - directed networks for which the probability of a link occurring from node i to node j differs from the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-07 Chanania Steinbock

The increasing availability of time --and space-- resolved data describing human activities and interactions gives insights into both static and dynamic properties of human behavior. In practice, nevertheless, real-world datasets can often…

Physics and Society · Physics 2013-11-27 Nicolas Tremblay , Alain Barrat , Cary Forest , Mark Nornberg , Jean-François Pinton , Pierre Borgnat

Communities are a common and widely studied structure in networks, typically under the assumption that the network is fully and correctly observed. In practice, network data are often collected by querying nodes about their connections. In…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-03-22 Tianxi Li , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

Convolutional neural networks often dominate fully-connected counterparts in generalization performance, especially on image classification tasks. This is often explained in terms of 'better inductive bias'. However, this has not been made…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Zhiyuan Li , Yi Zhang , Sanjeev Arora

Dependency networks (Heckerman et al., 2000) provide a flexible framework for modeling complex systems with many variables by combining independently learned local conditional distributions through pseudo-Gibbs sampling. Despite their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Kazuya Takabatake , Shotaro Akaho

We introduce a new threshold model of social networks, in which the nodes influenced by their neighbours can adopt one out of several alternatives. We characterize the graphs for which adoption of a product by the whole network is possible…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Krzysztof R. Apt , Evangelos Markakis

Some of the most used sampling mechanisms that implicitly leverage a social network depend on tuning parameters; for instance, Respondent-Driven Sampling (RDS) is specified by the number of seeds and maximum number of referrals. We are…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-12-06 Simón Lunagómez , Marios Papamichalis , Patrick J. Wolfe , Edoardo M. Airoldi

We introduce and study random bipartite networks with hidden variables. Nodes in these networks are characterized by hidden variables which control the appearance of links between node pairs. We derive analytic expressions for the degree…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-03-19 Maksim Kitsak , Dmitri Krioukov

We study a number of graph exploration problems in the following natural scenario: an algorithm starts exploring an undirected graph from some seed node; the algorithm, for an arbitrary node $v$ that it is aware of, can ask an oracle to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Flavio Chierichetti , Shahrzad Haddadan

We study the diffusion of influence in random multiplex networks where links can be of $r$ different types, and for a given content (e.g., rumor, product, political view), each link type is associated with a content dependent parameter…

Physics and Society · Physics 2012-09-11 Osman Yagan , Virgil Gligor

A common feature of biological networks is the geometric property of self-similarity. Molecular regulatory networks through to circulatory systems, nervous systems, social systems and ecological trophic networks, show self-similar…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2012-03-09 Simon DeDeo , David C. Krakauer

We model recruitment in adaptive social networks in the presence of birth and death processes. Recruitment is characterized by nodes changing their status to that of the recruiting class as a result of contact with recruiting nodes. Only a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2012-07-20 Maxim S. Shkarayev , Ira B. Schwartz , Leah B. Shaw

We propose and analyze a graph model to study the connectivity of interdependent networks. Two interdependent networks of arbitrary topologies are modeled as two graphs, where every node in one graph is supported by supply nodes in the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Jianan Zhang , Eytan Modiano

Real-world networks are often organized as modules or communities of similar nodes that serve as functional units. These networks are also rich in content, with nodes having distinguishing features or attributes. In order to discover a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-05-20 Laura M. Smith , Linhong Zhu , Kristina Lerman , Allon G. Percus

Networks constitute efficient tools for assessing universal features of complex systems. In physical contexts, classical as well as quantum, networks are used to describe a wide range of phenomena, such as phase transitions, intricate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-22 Jaroslav Novotný , Gernot Alber , Igor Jex

Networks are complex models for underlying data in many application domains. In most instances, raw data is not natively in the form of a network, but derived from sensors, logs, images, or other data. Yet, the impact of the various choices…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-07 Ivan Brugere , Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf

Graph neural networks have gained prominence due to their excellent performance in many classification and prediction tasks. In particular, they are used for node classification and link prediction which have a wide range of applications in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Cenk Baykal , Vamsi K. Potluru , Sameena Shah , Manuela M. Veloso

The ability of groups to make accurate collective decisions depends on a complex interplay of various factors, such as prior information, biases, social influence, and the structure of the interaction network. Here, we investigate a spin…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-20 Yunus Sevinchan , Petro Sarkanych , Abi Tenenbaum , Yurij Holovatch , Pawel Romanczuk