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We model the spread of information in a homogeneously mixed population using the Maki Thompson rumor model. We formulate an optimal control problem, from the perspective of single campaigner, to maximize the spread of information when the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-06-09 Kundan Kandhway , Joy Kuri

The paper considers gossip distributed estimation of a (static) distributed random field (a.k.a., large scale unknown parameter vector) observed by sparsely interconnected sensors, each of which only observes a small fraction of the field.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-20 Soummya Kar , Jose' M. F. Moura

In the broadcasting problem on trees, a $\{-1,1\}$-message originating in an unknown node is passed along the tree with a certain error probability $q$. The goal is to estimate the original message without knowing the order in which the…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-09-12 Ernst Althaus , Lisa Hartung , Rebecca Steiner

We present results on a stochastic forest fire model, where the influence of the neighbour trees is treated in a more realistic way than usual and the definition of neighbourhood can be tuned by an additional parameter. This model exhibits…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2015-05-13 Klaus Lichtenegger , Wilhelm Schappacher

Traditional methods for detecting rumors on social media primarily focus on analyzing textual content, often struggling to capture the complexity of online interactions. Recent research has shifted towards leveraging graph neural networks…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Xingyu Peng , Junran Wu , Ruomei Liu , Ke Xu

Randomized rumor spreading is a classical protocol to disseminate information across a network. At SODA 2008, a quasirandom version of this protocol was proposed and competitive bounds for its run-time were proven. This prompts the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-05-21 Benjamin Doerr , Anna Huber , Ariel Levavi

The dynamic behaviour of stochastic spreading processes on a network model based on k-regular graphs is investigated. The contact process and the susceptible-infected-susceptible model for the spread of epidemics are considered as prototype…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2008-10-08 S. V. Fallert , S. N. Taraskin

The dynamics of fake news and rumor spreading is investigated using a model with three kinds of agents who are respectively the Seeds, the Agnostics and the Others. While Seeds are the ones who start spreading the rumor being adamantly…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Ahad N. Zehmakan , Serge Galam

Recent research [1] has suggested that coreness, and not degree, constitutes a better topological descriptor to identifying influential spreaders in complex networks. This hypothesis has been verified in the context of disease spreading.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-03 Javier Borge-Holthoefer , Yamir Moreno

Recent years have seen various rumor diffusion models being assumed in detection of rumor source research of the online social network. Diffusion model is arguably considered as a very important and challengeable factor for source detection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Rong Jin , Weili Wu

A Markov tree is a random vector indexed by the nodes of a tree whose distribution is determined by the distributions of pairs of neighbouring variables and a list of conditional independence relations. Upon an assumption on the tails of…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-05 Johan Segers

Rumour spreading is a protocol for modelling the spread of information through a network via user-to-user interaction. The Spatial Preferred Attachment (SPA) model is a random graph model for complex networks: vertices are placed in a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Jeannette Janssen , Abbas Mehrabian

As an alternative to parsimony analyses, stochastic models have been proposed (Lewis, 2001), (Nylander, et al., 2004) for morphological characters, so that maximum likelihood or Bayesian analyses may be used for phylogenetic inference. A…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2009-12-20 Elizabeth S. Allman , Mark T. Holder , John A. Rhodes

We study a rumour model from a percolation theory and branching process point of view. The existence of a giant component is related to the event where the rumour spreads out trough an infinite number of individuals. We present sharp lower…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-11-29 Valdivino V. Junior , Fábio P. Machado , Mauricio Zuluaga

The study of rumor models from a percolation theory point of view has gained a few adepts in the last few years. The persistence of a rumor, which may consistently spread out throughout a population can be associated to the existence of a…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-12-13 Valdivino V. Junior , Fábio P. Machado , Krishnamurthi Ravishankar

In the era of the rapid development of the Internet, the threshold for information spreading has become lower. Most of the time, rumors, as a special kind of information, are harmful to society. And once the rumor appears, the truth will…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-27 Yan Wang , Feng Qing , Jian-Ping Chai , Ye-Peng Ni

By introducing the notions of living and dead nodes a new model of random tree evolution with continuous time parameter has been constructed. It is assumed that two random variables, the lifetime and the offspring number of living nodes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Pal

For a uniform random labelled tree, we find the limiting distribution of tree parameters which are stable (in some sense) with respect to local perturbations of the tree structure. The proof is based on the martingale central limit theorem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Mikhail Isaev , Angus Southwell , Maksim Zhukovskii

The spread of ideas in online social networks is a crucial phenomenon to understand nowadays the proliferation of fake news and their impact in democracies. This makes necessary to use models that mimic the circulation of rumors. The law of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Jesus San Martin , Fatima Drubi , Daniel Rodriguez-Perez

We give examples of data-generating models under which Breiman's random forest may be extremely slow to converge to the optimal predictor or even fail to be consistent. The evidence provided for these properties is based on mostly intuitive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-12-01 José A. Ferreira