5 papers
Growing Hypergraphs with Homophily
Violet Ross, Francis Cataldo, Philip S. Chodrow
There are many extant models of hypergraphs with interactions governed by attribute-based homophily between nodes, but most assume independence between edges conditional on node pa…
Modeling Social Systems: Transparency, Reproducibility, and Responsibility
Maximino Aldana, Roni Barak Ventura, Heather Z. Brooks +13
Mathematical models of complex social systems can enrich social scientific theory, inform interventions, and shape policy. From voting behavior to economic inequality and urban dev…
Edge Correlations and Link Prediction in Growing Hypergraphs
Xie He, Philip S. Chodrow, Peter J. Mucha
We propose a generative model of temporally-evolving hypergraphs in which hyperedges form via noisy copying of previous hyperedges. Our proposed model reproduces several stylized f…
The illusion of households as entities in social networks
Izabel Aguiar, Philip S. Chodrow, Johan Ugander
Data recording connections between people in communities and villages are collected and analyzed in various ways, most often as either networks of individuals or as networks of hou…
Equivalence of Informations Characterizes Bregman Divergences
Philip S. Chodrow
Bregman divergences are a class of distance-like comparison functions which play fundamental roles in optimization, statistics, and information theory. One important property of Br…