Learning Opinions in Social Networks

Authors: Vincent Conitzer, Debmalya Panigrahi, Hanrui Zhang

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Theoretical We study the problem of learning opinions in social networks. The learner observes the states of some sample nodes from a social network, and tries to infer the states of other nodes, based on the structure of the network. We show that sampleefficient learning is impossible when the network exhibits strong noise, and give a polynomial-time algorithm for the problem with nearly optimal sample complexity when the network is sufficiently stable.
Researcher Affiliation Academia 1Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, USA.
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1: Learning Algorithm for General Networks; Algorithm 2: Empirical Risk Minimization in Networks
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide any explicit statements about releasing open-source code or links to a code repository for the methodology described.
Open Datasets No The paper does not specify the use of any publicly available datasets. It discusses 'm i.i.d. labeled samples' from a 'population distribution D' in a theoretical context without naming concrete datasets with access information.
Dataset Splits No The paper is theoretical and does not describe experimental setups, therefore, it does not specify training/test/validation dataset splits.
Hardware Specification No The paper is theoretical and does not describe any experimental hardware specifications.
Software Dependencies No The paper is theoretical and does not mention specific software dependencies with version numbers.
Experiment Setup No The paper is theoretical and does not describe concrete experimental setup details such as hyperparameters or training configurations.