no code implementations • 7 Mar 2017 • Sharan Vaswani, Mark Schmidt, Laks. V. S. Lakshmanan
The gang of bandits (GOB) model \cite{cesa2013gang} is a recent contextual bandits framework that shares information between a set of bandit problems, related by a known (possibly noisy) graph.
no code implementations • 27 Apr 2016 • Sharan Vaswani, Laks. V. S. Lakshmanan
A disadvantage of this setting is that the marketer is forced to select all the seeds based solely on a diffusion model.
Social and Information Networks
no code implementations • 1 Jul 2015 • Wei Lu, Wei Chen, Laks. V. S. Lakshmanan
We study two natural optimization problems, Self Influence Maximization and Complementary Influence Maximization, in a novel setting with complementary entities.
Social and Information Networks Physics and Society H.2.8
no code implementations • 27 Feb 2015 • Sharan Vaswani, Laks. V. S. Lakshmanan, Mark Schmidt
We consider the problem of \emph{influence maximization}, the problem of maximizing the number of people that become aware of a product by finding the `best' set of `seed' users to expose the product to.
no code implementations • 30 Sep 2011 • Amit Goyal, Francesco Bonchi, Laks. V. S. Lakshmanan
In particular, we introduce a new model, which we call credit distribution, that directly leverages available propagation traces to learn how influence flows in the network and uses this to estimate expected influence spread.
Databases