6 papers
Consensus and fragmentation in academic publication preferences
Ian Van Buskirk, Marilena Hohmann, Ekaterina Landgren +3
Academic publishing requires solving a collective coordination problem: among thousands of possible publication venues, which deserve a community's attention? A clear consensus hel…
Low-order outcomes and clustered designs: combining design and analysis for causal inference under network interference
Matthew Eichhorn, Samir Khan, Johan Ugander +1
Variance reduction for causal inference in the presence of network interference is often achieved through either outcome modeling, typically analyzed under unit-randomized Bernoull…
Bypassing Skip-Gram Negative Sampling: Dimension Regularization as a More Efficient Alternative for Graph Embeddings
David Liu, Arjun Seshadri, Tina Eliassi-Rad +1
A wide range of graph embedding objectives decompose into two components: one that enforces similarity, attracting the embeddings of nodes that are perceived as similar, and anothe…
The illusion of households as entities in social networks
Izabel Aguiar, Philip S. Chodrow, Johan Ugander
Data recording connections between people in communities and villages are collected and analyzed in various ways, most often as either networks of individuals or as networks of hou…
Exclusion Zones of Instant Runoff Voting
Kiran Tomlinson, Johan Ugander, Jon Kleinberg
Recent research on instant runoff voting (IRV) shows that it exhibits a striking combinatorial property in one-dimensional preference spaces: there is an "exclusion zone" around th…
Replicating Electoral Success
Kiran Tomlinson, Tanvi Namjoshi, Johan Ugander +1
A core tension in the study of plurality elections is the clash between the classic Hotelling-Downs model, which predicts that two office-seeking candidates should position themsel…