2 papers
math.OC2022
Dynamics and Inference for Voter Model Processes
Milan Vojnovic, Kaifang Zhou
We consider a discrete-time voter model process on a set of nodes, each being in one of two states, either 0 or 1. In each time step, each node adopts the state of a randomly sampl…
stat.ML2019
Accelerated MM Algorithms for Ranking Scores Inference from Comparison Data
Milan Vojnovic, Seyoung Yun, Kaifang Zhou
In this paper, we study a popular method for inference of the Bradley-Terry model parameters, namely the MM algorithm, for maximum likelihood estimation and maximum a posteriori pr…