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We study the diffusion of a true and a false message (the rumor) in a social network. Upon hearing a message, individuals may believe it, disbelieve it, or debunk it through costly verification. Whenever the truth survives in steady state,…

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With the recent advancements in social network platform technology, an overwhelming amount of information is spreading rapidly. In this situation, it can become increasingly difficult to discern what information is false or true. If false…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Otabek Sattarov , Jaeyoung Choi

The problem of Profit Maximization asks to choose a limited number of influential users from a given social network such that the initial activation of these users maximizes the profit earned at the end of the diffusion process. This…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Poonam Sharma , Suman Banerjee

Multimodal content, such as mixing text with images, presents significant challenges to rumor detection in social media. Existing multimodal rumor detection has focused on mixing tokens among spatial and sequential locations for unimodal…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2023-12-19 An Lao , Qi Zhang , Chongyang Shi , Longbing Cao , Kun Yi , Liang Hu , Duoqian Miao

In this big data era, more and more social activities are digitized thereby becoming traceable, and thus the studies of social networks attract increasing attention from academia. It is widely believed that social networks play important…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Qi Xuan , Xincheng Shu , Zhongyuan Ruan , Jinbao Wang , Chenbo Fu , Guanrong Chen

Searching for fleeting radio transients like fast radio bursts (FRBs) with wide-field radio telescopes has become a common challenge in data-intensive science. Conventional algorithms normally cost enormous time to seek candidates by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-23 Yao Chen , Rui Luo , Chen Wang , Yong-Kun Zhang , Shiqian Zhao , Chengbing Lyu , ZePeng Zheng , Hai Lei , DeJiang Zhou , Chenhui Niu , JinLin Han , George Hobbs , Di Li , Chengwei Liang , Siyi Tan , Ting Tian

We study a rumor spreading model where individuals are connected via a network structure. Initially, only a small subset of the individuals are spreading a rumor. Each individual who is connected to a spreader, starts spreading the rumor…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Ahad N. Zehmakan , Charlotte Out , Sajjad Hesamipour Khelejan

The ways in which an innovation (e.g., new behaviour, idea, technology, product) diffuses among people can determine its success or failure. In this paper, we address the problem of diffusion of innovations over multiplex social networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-08-26 Rasoul Ramezanian , Mostafa Salehi , Matteo Magnani , Danilo Montesi

We propose an information propagation model that captures important temporal aspects that have been well observed in the dynamics of fake news diffusion, in contrast with the diffusion of truth. The model accounts for differential…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Michael Simpson , Farnoosh Hashemi , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

The proliferation of fake news poses a serious threat to society, as it can misinform and manipulate the public, erode trust in institutions, and undermine democratic processes. To address this issue, we present FakeSwarm, a fake news…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jun Wu , Xuesong Ye

Due to the extensive role of social networks in social media, it is easy for people to share the news, and it spreads faster than ever before. These platforms also have been exploited to share the rumor or fake information, which is a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Akrati Saxena , Harsh Saxena , Ralucca Gera

The proliferation of social media in communication and information dissemination has made it an ideal platform for spreading rumors. Automatically debunking rumors at their stage of diffusion is known as \textit{early rumor detection},…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Tong Chen , Lin Wu , Xue Li , Jun Zhang , Hongzhi Yin , Yang Wang

The study of complex networks that account for different types of interactions has become a subject of interest in the last few years, specially because its representational power in the description of users interactions in diverse online…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-09-17 Albert Solé-Ribalta , Clara Granell , Sergio Gómez , Alex Arenas

Content popularity prediction has been extensively studied due to its importance and interest for both users and hosts of social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest. However, existing work mainly focuses on modeling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Wenjian Hu , Krishna Kumar Singh , Fanyi Xiao , Jinyoung Han , Chen-Nee Chuah , Yong Jae Lee

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

Rumours have existed for a long time and have been known for serious consequences. The rapid growth of social media platforms has multiplied the negative impact of rumours; it thus becomes important to early detect them. Many methods have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-05-09 Tien Huu Do , Xiao Luo , Duc Minh Nguyen , Nikos Deligiannis

The rapid dissemination of rumors on social media highlights the urgent need for automatic detection methods to safeguard societal trust and stability. While existing multimodal rumor detection models primarily emphasize capturing…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Zihao Yu , Xiang Li , Jing Zhang

Social media platforms have been used for information and news gathering, and they are very valuable in many applications. However, they also lead to the spreading of rumors and fake news. Many efforts have been taken to detect and debunk…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-19 Quanzhi Li , Qiong Zhang , Luo Si , Yingchi Liu

Visual information has been introduced for enhancing machine translation (MT), and its effectiveness heavily relies on the availability of large amounts of bilingual parallel sentence pairs with manual image annotations. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Andong Chen , Yuchen Song , Kehai Chen , Muyun Yang , Tiejun Zhao , Min Zhang

Fake news spreads widely on social media, leading to numerous negative effects. Most existing detection algorithms focus on analyzing news content and social context to detect fake news. However, these approaches typically detect fake news…

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