3 papers
cs.SI2025
Quantifying and Minimizing Perception Gap in Social Networks
Hemant Kumar Gehlot, Mohammad Shirzadi, Junhao Gan +1
Social media has transformed global communication, yet its network structure can systematically distort perceptions through effects like the majority illusion and echo chambers. We…
cs.LG2025
Adaptive Initial Residual Connections for GNNs with Theoretical Guarantees
Mohammad Shirzadi, Ali Safarpoor Dehkordi, Ahad N. Zehmakan
Message passing is the core operation in graph neural networks, where each node updates its embeddings by aggregating information from its neighbors. However, in deep architectures…
cs.SI2025
Opinion Dynamics: A Comprehensive Overview
Mohammad Shirzadi, Emilio Cruciani, Ahad N. Zehmakan
Opinion dynamics, the evolution of individuals through social interactions, is an important area of research with applications ranging from politics to marketing. Due to its interd…