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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…
Distilling Information Reliability and Source Trustworthiness from Digital Traces
Behzad Tabibian, Isabel Valera, Mehrdad Farajtabar +3
Online knowledge repositories typically rely on their users or dedicated editors to evaluate the reliability of their content. These evaluations can be viewed as noisy measurements…
Multistage Campaigning in Social Networks
Mehrdad Farajtabar, Xiaojing Ye, Sahar Harati +2
We consider the problem of how to optimize multi-stage campaigning over social networks. The dynamic programming framework is employed to balance the high present reward and large…
Smart broadcasting: Do you want to be seen?
Mohammad Reza Karimi, Erfan Tavakoli, Mehrdad Farajtabar +2
Many users in online social networks are constantly trying to gain attention from their followers by broadcasting posts to them. These broadcasters are likely to gain greater atten…
A Stochastic Differential Equation Framework for Guiding Online User Activities in Closed Loop
Yichen Wang, Evangelos Theodorou, Apurv Verma +1
Recently, there is a surge of interest in using point processes to model continuous-time user activities. This framework has resulted in novel models and improved performance in di…
A Continuous-time Mutually-Exciting Point Process Framework for Prioritizing Events in Social Media
Mehrdad Farajtabar, Safoora Yousefi, Long Q. Tran +2
The overwhelming amount and rate of information update in online social media is making it increasingly difficult for users to allocate their attention to their topics of interest,…