Learning and Forecasting Opinion Dynamics in Social Networks

Authors: Abir De, Isabel Valera, Niloy Ganguly, Sourangshu Bhattacharya, Manuel Gomez Rodriguez

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental Experiments on data gathered from Twitter show that our model provides a good fit to the data and our formulas achieve more accurate forecasting than alternatives.
Researcher Affiliation Academia IIT Kharagpur MPI for Software Systems {abir.de,niloy,sourangshu}@cse.iitkgp.ernet.in {ivalera,manuelgr}@mpi-sws.org
Pseudocode Yes Appendix H summarizes the overall estimation algorithm. Appendix I summarizes the overall simulation algorithm.
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide explicit statements or links for open-source code for the described methodology.
Open Datasets No The paper mentions using 'five Twitter datasets about current real-world events (Politics, Movie, Fight, Bollywood and US)' which were gathered from Twitter, but does not provide specific access information (e.g., URL, DOI, specific citation to a publicly available dataset) for these collected datasets.
Dataset Splits No The paper mentions 'cross-validation' for setting decay parameters but does not provide specific percentages or sample counts for a distinct validation split.
Hardware Specification Yes The experiments are carried out in a single machine with 24 cores and 64 GB of main memory.
Software Dependencies No The paper mentions using 'a popular sentiment analysis toolbox, specially designed for Twitter [13]' but does not provide specific version numbers for this or any other software dependency.
Experiment Setup Yes Here, we set the decay parameters of the exponential triggering kernels κ(t) and g(t) by cross-validation.