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In network embedding, random walks play a fundamental role in preserving network structures. However, random walk based embedding methods have two limitations. First, random walk methods are fragile when the sampling frequency or the number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-14 Yong Shi , Minglong Lei , Peng Zhang , Lingfeng Niu

We consider the problem of identifying the source of an epidemic, spreading through a network, from a complete observation of the infected nodes in a snapshot of the network. Previous work on the problem has often employed geometric,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-13 S. Jalil Kazemitabar , Arash A. Amini

The diffusion of information, norms, and practices across a social network can be initiated by compelling a small number of seed individuals to adopt first. Strategies proposed in previous work either assume full network information or…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-02-09 Jiamin Ou , Vincent Buskens , Arnout Van De Rijt , Debabrata Panja

The development of social media platforms has revolutionized the speed and manner in which information is disseminated, leading to both beneficial and detrimental effects on society. While these platforms facilitate rapid communication,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Liu Yan , Liu Yunpeng , Zhao Liang

The spread of infectious disease in a human community or the proliferation of fake news on social media can be modeled as a randomly growing tree-shaped graph. The history of the random growth process is often unobserved but contains…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-01-15 Harry Crane , Min Xu

Social networks are frequently polluted by rumors, which can be detected by advanced models such as graph neural networks. However, the models are vulnerable to attacks and understanding the vulnerabilities is critical to rumor detection in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Yuefei Lyu , Xiaoyu Yang , Jiaxin Liu , Philip S. Yu , Sihong Xie , Xi Zhang

With the increasing use of online social networks as a source of news and information, the propensity for a rumor to disseminate widely and quickly poses a great concern, especially in disaster situations where users do not have enough time…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Abiola Osho , Caden Waters , George Amariucai

In this study, we investigate the under-explored intervention planning aimed at disseminating accurate information within dynamic opinion networks by leveraging learning strategies. Intervention planning involves identifying key nodes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Bharath Muppasani , Protik Nag , Vignesh Narayanan , Biplav Srivastava , Michael N. Huhns

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

Information spread through social networks is ubiquitous. Influence maximiza- tion (IM) algorithms aim to identify individuals who will generate the greatest spread through the social network if provided with information, and have been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-16 Octavio Mesner , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

The prevalence and perniciousness of fake news has been a critical issue on the Internet, which stimulates the development of automatic fake news detection in turn. In this paper, we focus on the evidence-based fake news detection, where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Weizhi Xu , Junfei Wu , Qiang Liu , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Empirical investor networks (EIN) proposed by \cite{Ozsoylev-Walden-Yavuz-Bildik-2014-RFS} are assumed to capture the information spreading path among investors. Here, we perform a comparative analysis between the EIN and the cellphone…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-08-23 Peng Wang , Jun-Chao Ma , Zhi-Qiang Jiang , Wei-Xing Zhou , Didier Sornette

We tackle the problem of inferring node labels in a partially labeled graph where each node in the graph has multiple label types and each label type has a large number of possible labels. Our primary example, and the focus of this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-01-31 Deepayan Chakrabarti , Stanislav Funiak , Jonathan Chang , Sofus A. Macskassy

Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a growing interest in studying epidemiological models. Traditional mechanistic models mathematically describe the transmission mechanisms of infectious diseases. However, they often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Zewen Liu , Guancheng Wan , B. Aditya Prakash , Max S. Y. Lau , Wei Jin

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

We consider the problem of detecting an epidemic in a population where individual diagnoses are extremely noisy. The motivation for this problem is the plethora of examples (influenza strains in humans, or computer viruses in smartphones,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-07 Eli A. Meirom , Chris Milling , Constantine Caramanis , Shie Mannor , Ariel Orda , Sanjay Shakkottai

In today's digital age, fake news has become a major problem that has serious consequences, ranging from social unrest to political upheaval. To address this issue, new methods for detecting and mitigating fake news are required. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Ciprian-Octavian Truică , Elena-Simona Apostol , Marius Marogel , Adrian Paschke

Detecting the origin of information or infection spread in networks is a fundamental challenge with applications in misinformation tracking, epidemiology, and beyond. We study the multi-source detection problem: given snapshot observations…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Xingchao Jian , Purui Zhang , Lan Tian , Feng Ji , Wenfei Liang , Wee Peng Tay , Bihan Wen , Felix Krahmer

As recent events have demonstrated, disinformation spread through social networks can have dire political, economic and social consequences. Detecting disinformation must inevitably rely on the structure of the network, on users…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Marius Paraschiv , Nikos Salamanos , Costas Iordanou , Nikolaos Laoutaris , Michael Sirivianos

Influence maximization is the problem of selecting top $k$ seed nodes in a social network to maximize their influence coverage under certain influence diffusion models. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm IRIE that integrates a new…

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