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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,…
On The Network You Keep: Analyzing Persons of Interest using Cliqster
Saber Shokat Fadaee, Mehrdad Farajtabar, Ravi Sundaram +2
Our goal is to determine the structural differences between different categories of networks and to use these differences to predict the network category. Existing work on this top…
Correlated Cascades: Compete or Cooperate
Ali Zarezade, Ali Khodadadi, Mehrdad Farajtabar +2
In real world social networks, there are multiple cascades which are rarely independent. They usually compete or cooperate with each other. Motivated by the reinforcement theory in…
COEVOLVE: A Joint Point Process Model for Information Diffusion and Network Co-evolution
Mehrdad Farajtabar, Yichen Wang, Manuel Gomez Rodriguez +3
Information diffusion in online social networks is affected by the underlying network topology, but it also has the power to change it. Online users are constantly creating new lin…
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…