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Network reliability is a well-studied problem that requires to measure the probability that a target node is reachable from a source node in a probabilistic (or uncertain) graph, i.e., a graph where every edge is assigned a probability of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Arijit Khan , Francesco Bonchi , Francesco Gullo , Andreas Nufer

Online social networks are growing and becoming denser. The social connections of a given person may have very high variability: from close friends and relatives to acquaintances to people who hardly know. Inferring the strength of social…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Polina Rozenshtein , Nikolaj Tatti , Aristides Gionis

We consider distributed inference in social networks where a phenomenon of interest evolves over a given social interaction graph, referred to as the \emph{social digraph}. For inference, we assume that a network of agents monitors certain…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Usman A. Khan

In this paper, we proposed the \textit{link injection}, a novel method that helps any differentiable graph machine learning models to go beyond observed connections from the input data in an end-to-end learning fashion. It finds out (weak)…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Jie Bu , M. Maruf , Arka Daw

In this paper, we generalize a recently introduced Expectation Maximization (EM) method for graphs and apply it to content-based networks. The EM method provides a classification of the nodes of a graph, and allows to infer relations…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-11-13 Jose J. Ramasco , Muhittin Mungan

Predicting the occurrence of links is a fundamental problem in networks. In the link prediction problem we are given a snapshot of a network and would like to infer which interactions among existing members are likely to occur in the near…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2010-11-19 L. Backstrom , J. Leskovec

Networks - collections of interacting elements or nodes - abound in the natural and manmade worlds. For many networks, complex spatiotemporal dynamics stem from patterns of physical interactions unknown to us. To infer these interactions,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-13 Mark A. Kramer , Uri T. Eden , Sydney S. Cash , Eric D. Kolaczyk

In real-world scenarios, although data entities may possess inherent relationships, the specific graph illustrating their connections might not be directly accessible. Latent graph inference addresses this issue by enabling Graph Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Yuan Lu , Haitz Sáez de Ocáriz Borde , Pietro Liò

Social networks represent nowadays in many contexts the main source of information transmission and the way opinions and actions are influenced. For instance, generic advertisements are way less powerful than suggestions from our contacts.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Kateryna Konotopska , Giovanni Iacca

This paper studies causal inference with observational data from a single large network. We consider a nonparametric model with interference in both potential outcomes and selection into treatment. Specifically, both stages may be the…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-12-30 Michael P. Leung , Pantelis Loupos

Infectious diseases are studied to understand their spreading mechanisms, to evaluate control strategies and to predict the risk and course of future outbreaks. Because people only interact with a small number of individuals, and because…

Applications · Statistics 2018-09-05 Ritabrata Dutta , Antonietta Mira , Jukka-Pekka Onnela

This paper considers a joint multi-graph inference and clustering problem for simultaneous inference of node centrality and association of graph signals with their graphs. We study a mixture model of filtered low pass graph signals with…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-02-15 Yiran He , Hoi-To Wai

We study the correspondence between Bayesian Networks and graphical representation of proofs in linear logic. The goal of this paper is threefold: to develop a proof-theoretical account of Bayesian inference (in the spirit of the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Rémi Di Guardia , Thomas Ehrhard , Jérôme Evrard , Claudia Faggian

Graphical network inference is used in many fields such as genomics or ecology to infer the conditional independence structure between variables, from measurements of gene expression or species abundances for instance. In many practical…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-03-22 Geneviève Robin , Christophe Ambroise , Stéphane Robin

We present a new inference method based on approximate Bayesian computation for estimating parameters governing an entire network based on link-traced samples of that network. To do this, we first take summary statistics from an observed…

Computation · Statistics 2017-01-17 Jack Davis , Steven K. Thompson

The reconstruction of missing information in epidemic spreading on contact networks can be essential in the prevention and containment strategies. The identification and warning of infectious but asymptomatic individuals (i.e., contact…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Indaco Biazzo , Alfredo Braunstein , Luca Dall'Asta , Fabio Mazza

In the modern age of social media and networks, graph representations of real-world phenomena have become an incredibly useful source to mine insights. Often, we are interested in understanding how entities in a graph are interconnected.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-16 Aneesh Komanduri , Justin Zhan

In network tomography, one goal is to identify a small set of failed links in a network, by sending a few packets through the network and seeing which reach their destination. This problem can be seen as a variant of combinatorial group…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-12 Bruce Spang , Mary Wootters

Influence maximization is the task of selecting a small number of seed nodes in a social network to maximize the influence spread from these seeds. It has been widely investigated in the past two decades. In the canonical setting, the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Zhijie Zhang , Wei Chen , Xiaoming Sun , Jialin Zhang

We develop the theory and practice of an approach to modelling and probabilistic inference in causal networks that is suitable when application-specific or analysis-specific constraints should inform such inference or when little or no data…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Paul Beaumont , Michael Huth