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Uncovering the Spatiotemporal Patterns of Collective Social Activity
Martin Jankowiak, Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez
Social media users and microbloggers post about a wide variety of (off-line) collective social activities as they participate in them, ranging from concerts and sporting events to…
Modeling the Dynamics of Online Learning Activity
Charalampos Mavroforakis, Isabel Valera, Manuel Gomez Rodriguez
People are increasingly relying on the Web and social media to find solutions to their problems in a wide range of domains. In this online setting, closely related problems often l…
RedQueen: An Online Algorithm for Smart Broadcasting in Social Networks
Ali Zarezade, Utkarsh Upadhyay, Hamid Rabiee +1
Users in social networks whose posts stay at the top of their followers'{} feeds the longest time are more likely to be noticed. Can we design an online algorithm to help them deci…
Fairness Beyond Disparate Treatment & Disparate Impact: Learning Classification without Disparate Mistreatment
Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Isabel Valera, Manuel Gomez Rodriguez +1
Automated data-driven decision making systems are increasingly being used to assist, or even replace humans in many settings. These systems function by learning from historical dec…
Back to the Past: Source Identification in Diffusion Networks from Partially Observed Cascades
Mehrdad Farajtabar, Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez, Nan Du +3
When a piece of malicious information becomes rampant in an information diffusion network, can we identify the source node that originally introduced the piece into the network and…
Shaping Social Activity by Incentivizing Users
Mehrdad Farajtabar, Nan Du, Manuel Gomez Rodriguez +3
Events in an online social network can be categorized roughly into endogenous events, where users just respond to the actions of their neighbors within the network, or exogenous ev…