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Learning Linear Influence Models in Social Networks from Transient Opinion Dynamics

机译:从瞬态舆论动力学学习社交网络中的线性影响模型

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Social networks, forums, and social media have emerged as global platforms for forming and shaping opinions on a broad spectrum of topics like politics, sports, and entertainment. Users (also called actors) often update their evolving opinions, influenced through discussions with other users. Theoretical models and their analysis on understanding opinion dynamics in social networks abound in the literature. However, these models are often based on concepts from statistical physics. Their goal is to establish specific phenomena like steady state consensus or bifurcation. Analysis of transient effects is largely avoided. Moreover, many of these studies assume that actors' opinions are observed globally and synchronously, which is rarely realistic. In this article, we initiate an investigation into a family of novel data-driven influence models that accurately learn and fit realistic observations. We estimate and do not presume edge strengths from observed opinions at nodes. Our influence models are linear but not necessarily positive or row stochastic in nature. As a consequence, unlike the previous studies, they do not depend on system stability or convergence during the observation period. Furthermore, our models take into account a wide variety of data collection scenarios. In particular, they are robust to missing observations for several timesteps after an actor has changed its opinion. In addition, we consider scenarios where opinion observations may be available only for aggregated clusters of nodes-a practical restriction often imposed to ensure privacy. Finally, to provide a conceptually interpretable design of edge influence, we offer a relatively frugal variant of our influence model, where the strength of influence between two connecting nodes depends on the node attributes (demography, personality, expertise, etc.). Such an approach reduces the number of model parameters, reduces overfitting, and offers a tractable and explicable sketch of edge influences in the context of opinion dynamics. With six real-life datasets crawled from Twitter and Reddit, as well as three more datasets collected from in-house experiments (with 102 volunteers), our proposed system gives a significant accuracy boost over four state-of-the-art baselines.
机译:社交网络,论坛和社交媒体已成为在各种主题(例如政治,体育和娱乐)上形成和塑造观点的全球平台。用户(也称为演员)经常更新自己不断发展的观点,并受到与其他用户的讨论的影响。关于社交网络中的舆论动态理解的理论模型及其分析在文献中比比皆是。但是,这些模型通常基于统计物理学的概念。他们的目标是建立特定的现象,例如稳态共识或分歧。很大程度上避免了对瞬态效应的分析。此外,这些研究中的许多假设都假定参与者的观点在全球范围内同步出现,这几乎是不现实的。在本文中,我们将对一系列新型的数据驱动的影响模型进行调查,这些模型可以准确地学习并适合现实的观察结果。我们估计并且不根据节点上观察到的观点来假定边缘强度。我们的影响力模型是线性的,但不一定是正的或本质上是行随机的。因此,与以前的研究不同,它们在观察期内不依赖系统的稳定性或收敛性。此外,我们的模型考虑了各种数据收集方案。尤其是,它们对于在演员改变其观点之后的几个时间步中缺少观察结果具有鲁棒性。此外,我们考虑了仅对聚集的节点群集提供意见观察的情况-通常为确保隐私而施加的实际限制。最后,为了提供边缘影响的概念上可解释的设计,我们提供了影响模型的相对节俭的设计,其中两个连接节点之间的影响强度取决于节点属性(人口统计学,个性,专业知识等)。这样的方法减少了模型参数的数量,减少了过拟合,并在观点动态的背景下提供了边缘影响的易处理且可解释的草图。通过从Twitter和Reddit抓取的六个真实数据集,以及从内部实验中收集的另外三个数据集(有102名志愿者),我们提出的系统在四个最新基准上均提供了显着的准确性。

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