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Uncovering the temporal dynamics of diffusion networks (2011)
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| Venue: | in Proc. of the 28th Int. Conf. on Machine Learning (ICML’11 |
| Citations: | 56 - 11 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Gomez-rodriguez11uncoveringthe,
author = {Manuel Gomez-rodriguez and David Balduzzi Bernhard Schölkopf},
title = {Uncovering the temporal dynamics of diffusion networks},
booktitle = {in Proc. of the 28th Int. Conf. on Machine Learning (ICML’11},
year = {2011}
}
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Abstract
Time plays an essential role in the diffusion of information, influence and disease over networks. In many cases we only observe when a node copies information, makes a decision or becomes infected – but the connectivity, transmission rates between nodes and transmission sources are unknown. Inferring the underlying dynamics is of outstanding interest since it enables forecasting, influencing and retarding infections, broadly construed. To this end, we model diffusion processes as discrete networks of continuous temporal processes occurring at different rates. Given cascade data – observed infection times of nodes – we infer the edges of the global diffusion network and estimate the transmission rates of each edge that best explain the observed data. The optimization problem is convex. The model naturally (without heuristics) imposes sparse solutions and requires no parameter tuning. The problem decouples into a collection of independent smaller problems, thus scaling easily to networks on the order of hundreds of thousands of nodes. Experiments on real and synthetic data show that our algorithm both recovers the edges of diffusion networks and accurately estimates their transmission rates from cascade data. 1.
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diffusion network transmission rate temporal dynamic cascade data many case synthetic data discrete network continuous temporal process observed data global diffusion network different rate infection time optimization problem transmission source essential role diffusion process sparse solution outstanding interest
