4 papers
Opinion Dynamics with Multiple Adversaries
Akhil Jalan, Marios Papachristou
Opinion dynamics models how the publicly expressed opinions of users in a social network coevolve according to their neighbors as well as their own intrinsic opinion. Motivated by…
Optimal Transfer Learning for Missing Not-at-Random Matrix Completion
Akhil Jalan, Yassir Jedra, Arya Mazumdar +2
We study transfer learning for matrix completion in a Missing Not-at-Random (MNAR) setting that is motivated by biological problems. The target matrix has entire rows and colum…
Strategic Negotiations in Endogenous Network Formation
Akhil Jalan, Deepayan Chakrabarti
In network formation games, agents form edges with each other to maximize their utility. Each agent's utility depends on its private beliefs and its edges in the network. Strategic…
Transfer Learning for Latent Variable Network Models
Akhil Jalan, Arya Mazumdar, Soumendu Sundar Mukherjee +1
We study transfer learning for estimation in latent variable network models. In our setting, the conditional edge probability matrices given the latent variables are represented by…