Neural Diffusion Model for Microscopic Cascade Study

Cheng Yang

doi:10.1109/TKDE.2019.2939796

Neural Diffusion Model for Microscopic Cascade Study

2019-01-01

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DOI：10.1109/TKDE.2019.2939796

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The study of information diffusion or cascade has attracted much attention over the last decade. Most related works target on studying cascade-level macroscopic properties such as the final size of a cascade. Existing microscopic cascade models which focus on user-level modeling either make strong assumptions on how a user gets infected by a cascade or limit themselves to a specific scenario where who infected whom information is explicitly labeled. The strong assumptions oversimplify the complex diffusion mechanism and prevent these models from better fitting real-world cascade data. Also, the methods which focus on specific scenarios cannot be generalized to a general setting where the diffusion graph is unobserved. To overcome the drawbacks of previous works, we propose a Neural Diffusion Model (NDM) for general microscopic cascade study. NDM makes relaxed assumptions and employs deep learning techniques including attention mechanism and convolutional network for cascade modeling. Both advantages enable our model to go beyond the limitations of previous methods, better fit the diffusion data and generalize to unseen cascades. Experimental results on diffusion identification task over four realistic cascade datasets show that our model can achieve a relative improvement up to 26 percent against the best performing baseline in terms of F1 score.

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Microscopy

Integrated circuit modeling

Task analysis

Data models

Deep learning

Twitter

Information diffusion

neural network

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