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Optimizing Human Learning
Behzad Tabibian, Utkarsh Upadhyay, Abir De +3
Spaced repetition is a technique for efficient memorization which uses repeated, spaced review of content to improve long-term retention. Can we find the optimal reviewing schedule…
Leveraging the Crowd to Detect and Reduce the Spread of Fake News and Misinformation
Jooyeon Kim, Behzad Tabibian, Alice Oh +2
Online social networking sites are experimenting with the following crowd-powered procedure to reduce the spread of fake news and misinformation: whenever a user is exposed to a st…
Harnessing Natural Experiments to Quantify the Causal Effect of Badges
Tomasz Kusmierczyk, Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez
A wide variety of online platforms use digital badges to encourage users to take certain types of desirable actions. However, despite their growing popularity, their causal effect…
From Parity to Preference-based Notions of Fairness in Classification
Muhammad Bilal Zafar, Isabel Valera, Manuel Gomez Rodriguez +2
The adoption of automated, data-driven decision making in an ever expanding range of applications has raised concerns about its potential unfairness towards certain social groups.…
Cheshire: An Online Algorithm for Activity Maximization in Social Networks
Ali Zarezade, Abir De, Hamid Rabiee +1
User engagement in social networks depends critically on the number of online actions their users take in the network. Can we design an algorithm that finds when to incentivize use…
Scalable Influence Maximization for Multiple Products in Continuous-Time Diffusion Networks
Nan Du, Yingyu Liang, Maria-Florina Balcan +3
A typical viral marketing model identifies influential users in a social network to maximize a single product adoption assuming unlimited user attention, campaign budgets, and time…
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…