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The ideas that we forge creatively as individuals and groups build on one another in a manner that is cumulative and adaptive, forming open-ended lineages across space and time. Thus, human culture is believed to evolve. The pervasiveness…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-09 Liane Gabora , Mike Unrau

Human learning is a complex phenomenon that requires adaptive processes across a range of temporal and spacial scales. While our understanding of those processes at single scales has increased exponentially over the last few years, a…

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Respondent-driven sampling (RDS) is widely used to study hidden or hard-to-reach populations by incentivizing study participants to recruit their social connections. The success and efficiency of RDS can depend critically on the nature of…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-01-06 Justin Weltz , Angela Yoon , Yichi Zhang , Alexander Volfovsky , Eric Laber

The emergence of large language models offers new possibilities for structured exploration of scientific knowledge. Rather than viewing scientific discovery as isolated ideas or content, we propose a structured approach that emphasizes the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Junlan Chen , Kexin Zhang , Daifeng Li , Yangyang Feng , Yuxuan Zhang , Bowen Deng

Reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved remarkable success in real-world decision-making across diverse domains, including gaming, robotics, online advertising, public health, and natural language processing. Despite these advances, a…

Applications · Statistics 2026-01-23 Asim H. Gazi , Yongyi Guo , Daiqi Gao , Ziping Xu , Kelly W. Zhang , Susan A. Murphy

This paper introduces how human languages can be studied in light of recent development of network theories. There are two directions of exploration. One is to study networks existing in the language system. Various lexical networks can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jinyun KE

Detection of community structures in social networks has attracted lots of attention in the domain of sociology and behavioral sciences. Social networks also exhibit dynamic nature as these networks change continuously with the passage of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-09-18 Frédéric Gilbert , Paolo Simonetto , Faraz Zaidi , Fabien Jourdan , Romain Bourqui

Our recent paper [Grauwin et al. Sci. Rep. 7 (2017)] demonstrates that community and hierarchical structure of the networks of human interactions largely determines the least and should be taken into account while modeling them. In the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-12-18 Stanislav Sobolevsky

To understand the structural dynamics of a large-scale social, biological or technological network, it may be useful to discover behavioral roles representing the main connectivity patterns present over time. In this paper, we propose a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-03-13 Ryan Rossi , Brian Gallagher , Jennifer Neville , Keith Henderson

We consider the problem of predicting link formation in Social Learning Networks (SLN), a type of social network that forms when people learn from one another through structured interactions. While link prediction has been studied for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Rajeev Sahay , Serena Nicoll , Minjun Zhang , Tsung-Yen Yang , Carlee Joe-Wong , Kerrie A. Douglas , Christopher G Brinton

Social network alignment, aligning different social networks on their common users, is receiving dramatic attention from both academic and industry. All existing studies consider the social network to be static and neglect its inherent…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Li Sun , Zhongbao Zhang , Pengxin Ji , Jian Wen , Sen Su , Philip S. Yu

Degree distribution of nodes, especially a power law degree distribution, has been regarded as one of the most significant structural characteristics of social and information networks. Node degree, however, only discloses the first-order…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2010-09-23 Ajay Sridharan , Yong Gao , Kui Wu , James Nastos

There is growing recognition that the network structures arising from interactions between different entities in physical, social and biological systems fundamentally alter the evolutionary outcomes. Previous paradigm exploring evolutionary…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-08 Yao Meng , Sean P. Cornelius , Yang-Yu Liu , Aming Li

With the rise of social networks, information on the internet is no longer solely organized by web pages. Rather, content is generated and shared among users and organized around their social relations on social networks. This presents new…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Yunzhong He , Wenyuan Li , Liang-Wei Chen , Gabriel Forgues , Xunlong Gui , Sui Liang , Bo Hou

Networks provide a powerful formalism for modeling complex systems by using a model of pairwise interactions. But much of the structure within these systems involves interactions that take place among more than two nodes at once; for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-12-13 Austin R. Benson , Rediet Abebe , Michael T. Schaub , Ali Jadbabaie , Jon Kleinberg

We propose a game-theoretic framework to model and optimize user engagement in cooperative activities over social networks. While traditional diffusion models suggest that individuals are only influenced by their neighbors, empirical…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Ahmed Luqman , Hassan Jaleel

New product development needs new engineering approaches. Knowledge is a key resource that impacts traditional, organisational, economic and innovative models. Through NICT (New Information and Communication Technologies), globalisation…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2012-01-25 Nicolas Perry , Alexandre Candlot , Schutte Corne

Graph path search is a classic computer science problem that has been recently approached with Reinforcement Learning (RL) due to its potential to outperform prior methods. Existing RL techniques typically assume a global view of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Alexei Pisacane , Victor-Alexandru Darvariu , Mirco Musolesi

A science is defined by a set of encyclopedic knowledge related to facts or phenomena following rules or evidenced by experimentally-driven observations. Computer Science and in particular computer networks is a relatively new scientific…