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  Inferring Networks of Diffusion and Influence

Gomez Rodriguez, M., Leskovec, J., & Krause, A. (2012). Inferring Networks of Diffusion and Influence. ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data, 5(4:21). doi:10.1145/2086737.2086741.

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Gomez Rodriguez, M1, Author           
Leskovec, J, Author
Krause, A, Author
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1Department Empirical Inference, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Max Planck Society, ou_1497795              

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 Abstract: Information diffusion and virus propagation are fundamental processes taking place in networks. While it is often possible to directly observe when nodes become infected with a virus or publish the information, observing individual transmissions (who infects whom, or who influences whom) is typically very difficult. Furthermore, in many applications, the underlying network over which the diffusions and propagations spread is actually unobserved. We tackle these challenges by developing a method for tracing paths of diffusion and influence through networks and inferring the networks over which contagions propagate. Given the times when nodes adopt pieces of information or become infected, we identify the optimal network that best explains the observed infection times. Since the optimization problem is NP-hard to solve exactly, we develop an efficient approximation algorithm that scales to large datasets and finds provably near-optimal networks. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach by tracing information diffusion in a set of 170 million blogs and news articles over a one year period to infer how information flows through the online media space. We find that the diffusion network of news for the top 1,000 media sites and blogs tends to have a core-periphery structure with a small set of core media sites that diffuse information to the rest of the Web. These sites tend to have stable circles of influence with more general news media sites acting as connectors between them.

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 Dates: 2012-02
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 Identifiers: URI: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2086741
DOI: 10.1145/2086737.2086741
BibTex Citekey: GomezRodriguezLK2011
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