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This paper introduces a probabilistic approach for tracking the dynamics of unweighted and directed graphs using state-space models (SSMs). Unlike conventional topology inference methods that assume static graphs and generate point-wise…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-13 Victor M. Tenorio , Elvin Isufi , Geert Leus , Antonio G. Marques

The proliferation of social network data has unlocked unprecedented opportunities for extensive, data-driven exploration of human behavior. The structural intricacies of social networks offer insights into various computational social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Julie Jiang , Emilio Ferrara

Understanding the evolution of online news communities is essential for designing more effective news recommender systems. However, due to the lack of appropriate datasets and platforms, the existing literature is limited in understanding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Guangping Zhang , Dongsheng Li , Hansu Gu , Tun Lu , Li Shang , Ning Gu

Multiple studies have focused on predicting the prospective popularity of an online document as a whole, without paying attention to the contributions of its individual parts. We introduce the task of proactively forecasting popularities of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Sayar Ghosh Roy , Anshul Padhi , Risubh Jain , Manish Gupta , Vasudeva Varma

Multi-agent role-playing has recently shown promise for studying social behavior with language agents, but existing simulations are mostly monolingual and fail to model cross-lingual interaction, an essential property of real societies. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Xuan Zhang , Wenxuan Zhang , Anxu Wang , See-Kiong Ng , Yang Deng

Simulation models are an absolute necessity in the human and social sciences, which can only very exceptionally use experimental science methods to construct their knowledge. Models enable the simulation of social processes by replacing the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-01-06 J. Raimbault , D. Pumain

In real-world complex networks, understanding the dynamics of their evolution has been of great interest to the scientific community. Predicting future links is an essential task of social network analysis as the addition or removal of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Akrati Saxena , George Fletcher , Mykola Pechenizkiy

Probabilistic graphical models (PGMs) serve as a powerful framework for modeling complex systems with uncertainty and extracting valuable insights from data. However, users face challenges when applying PGMs to their problems in terms of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Jiantong Jiang , Zeyi Wen , Peiyu Yang , Atif Mansoor , Ajmal Mian

Social media popularity prediction plays a crucial role in content optimization, marketing strategies, and user engagement enhancement across digital platforms. However, predicting post popularity remains challenging due to the complex…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Liliang Ye , Yunyao Zhang , Yafeng Wu , Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen , Junqing Yu , Wei Yang , Zikai Song

Simulating society with large language models (LLMs), we argue, requires more than generating plausible behavior; it demands cognitively grounded reasoning that is structured, revisable, and traceable. LLM-based agents are increasingly used…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Chance Jiajie Li , Jiayi Wu , Zhenze Mo , Ao Qu , Yuhan Tang , Kaiya Ivy Zhao , Yulu Gan , Jie Fan , Jiangbo Yu , Jinhua Zhao , Paul Liang , Luis Alonso , Kent Larson

Social media are nowadays one of the main news sources for millions of people around the globe due to their low cost, easy access and rapid dissemination. This however comes at the cost of dubious trustworthiness and significant risk of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Federico Monti , Fabrizio Frasca , Davide Eynard , Damon Mannion , Michael M. Bronstein

Social media provide access to behavioural data at an unprecedented scale and granularity. However, using these data to understand phenomena in a broader population is difficult due to their non-representativeness and the bias of…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Zijian Wang , Scott A. Hale , David Adelani , Przemyslaw A. Grabowicz , Timo Hartmann , Fabian Flöck , David Jurgens

This article proposes a social simulation paradigm based on the GPT-3.5 large language model. It involves constructing Generative Agents that emulate human cognition, memory, and decision-making frameworks, along with establishing a virtual…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Bushi Xiao , Ziyuan Yin , Zixuan Shan

Link prediction aims to uncover the underlying relationship behind networks, which could be utilized to predict the missing edges or identify the spurious edges, and attracts much attention from various fields. The key issue of link…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-19 Tong Wang , Ming-yang Zhou , Zhong-qian Fu

With the growing scale of social media, social event detection and evolution modeling have attracted increasing attention. Graph neural networks (GNNs) and transformer-based pre-trained language models (PLMs) have become mainstream…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Qitong Liu , Hao Peng , Zuchen Li , Xihang Meng , Ziyu Yang , Jiting Li , Li Sun , Philip S. Yu

Recent years saw an increased interest in modeling and understanding the mechanisms of opinion and innovation spread through human networks. Using analysis of real-world social data, researchers are able to gain a better understanding of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Ajay Saini , Natasha Markuzon

Social network simulation plays a crucial role in addressing various challenges within social science. It offers extensive applications such as state prediction, phenomena explanation, and policy-making support, among others. In this work,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Chen Gao , Xiaochong Lan , Zhihong Lu , Jinzhu Mao , Jinghua Piao , Huandong Wang , Depeng Jin , Yong Li

Proactive caching is an effective way to alleviate peak-hour traffic congestion by prefetching popular contents at the wireless network edge. To maximize the caching efficiency requires the knowledge of content popularity profile, which…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Naifu Zhang , Kaibin Zheng , Meixia Tao

Agent-Based Modelling (ABM) has emerged as an essential tool for simulating social networks, encompassing diverse phenomena such as information dissemination, influence dynamics, and community formation. However, manually configuring varied…

Living in the era of data deluge, we have witnessed a web content explosion, largely due to the massive availability of User-Generated Content (UGC). In this work, we specifically consider the problem of geospatial information extraction…

Databases · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Georgios Skoumas , Dieter Pfoser , Anastasios Kyrillidis