Inferring Motif-Based Diffusion Models for Social Networks

Authors: Qing Bao, William K. Cheung, Jiming Liu

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental For performance evaluation, we apply the proposed model to three real-world social network datasets with significant improvement on modelling accuracy compared with some recent work. 4 Experiments We compare our model with some recently proposed diffusion models using three real-world social and information network datasets. Figure 1 shows the experimental results.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Qing Bao, William K. Cheung, and Jiming Liu Dept. of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Pseudocode No The paper describes the two-level EM algorithm verbally and mathematically but does not include structured pseudocode or algorithm blocks.
Open Source Code No The paper does not include any statement about releasing the source code for the methodology described, nor does it provide a link to a code repository.
Open Datasets Yes Three real datasets are used for the evaluation, namely Meme Tracker [Leskovec et al., ], Digg [Lerman and Ghosh, 2010] and Flixster [Jamali and Ester, 2010] where both the network structure and the information cascades are available. Meme Tracker: Download Meme Tracker data. [Online]. Available: http://www.memetracker.org/data.html.
Dataset Splits Yes Also, five-fold cross-validation is adopted to avoid experimental bias.
Hardware Specification No The paper does not provide specific hardware details (exact GPU/CPU models, processor types, or memory amounts) used for running its experiments.
Software Dependencies No The paper does not provide specific ancillary software details, such as library names with version numbers.
Experiment Setup Yes For all the experiments performed, the initial values of {ˆ m,w} are within [0, 0.1] as the diffusion probabilities in real data are known to be very small (e.g., with a mean value of 0.04 and standard deviation of 0.07 [Gruhl et al., 2004]). The initial values of {ˆ m ij } are generated within [0, 1]. And the initial values of m are generated within [0, 1] satisfying P m ˆ m = 1. Also, for COMP-IC, LCM-IC and Motif-IC, we obtain the optimal number of model components using the cross-validation method.