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Modelling sparsity, heterogeneity, reciprocity and community structure in temporal interaction data

Authors :
Miscouridou, Xenia
Caron, François
Teh, Yee Whye
Publication Year :
2018

Abstract

We propose a novel class of network models for temporal dyadic interaction data. Our goal is to capture a number of important features often observed in social interactions: sparsity, degree heterogeneity, community structure and reciprocity. We propose a family of models based on self-exciting Hawkes point processes in which events depend on the history of the process. The key component is the conditional intensity function of the Hawkes Process, which captures the fact that interactions may arise as a response to past interactions (reciprocity), or due to shared interests between individuals (community structure). In order to capture the sparsity and degree heterogeneity, the base (non time dependent) part of the intensity function builds on compound random measures following Todeschini et al. (2016). We conduct experiments on a variety of real-world temporal interaction data and show that the proposed model outperforms many competing approaches for link prediction, and leads to interpretable parameters.

Subjects

Subjects :
Statistics - Machine Learning

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1803.06070
Document Type :
Working Paper