3 papers
cs.SI2025
Dominance or Fair Play in Social Networks? A Model of Influencer Popularity Dynamic
Franco Galante, Chiara Ravazzi, Luca Vassio +2
This paper presents a data-driven mean-field approach to model the popularity dynamics of users seeking public attention, i.e., influencers. We propose a novel analytical model tha…
math.PR2024
Competing bootstrap processes on the random graph
Michele Garetto, Emilio Leonardi, Giovanni Luca Torrisi
We introduce and analyze a competitive extension of classical bootstrap percolation on the Erdős--Rényi random graph . Nodes can be red, black, or white, with red and bla…
cs.LG2024
Scalable Decentralized Algorithms for Online Personalized Mean Estimation
Franco Galante, Giovanni Neglia, Emilio Leonardi
In numerous settings, agents lack sufficient data to directly learn a model. Collaborating with other agents may help, but it introduces a bias-variance trade-off, when local data…