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Ergodic and Metastable Behavior of Stochastic Popularity Dynamics in Social Networks
Chiara Ravazzi, Paolo Frasca, Gaya Cocca
This paper studies popularity dynamics in social networks, where users' engagement with competing channels is driven by intrinsic content quality, social influence, and popularity…
eess.SY2026
Recommender Systems as Control Systems
Giulia De Pasquale, Sarah Dean, Paolo Frasca
We propose a control-theoretic interpretation of recommender systems and use this perspective to analyze how fairness interventions shape long-term system behavior. Fairness concer…