Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ling, Chen, Chowdhury, Tanmoy, Ji, Jie, Li, Sirui, Züfle, Andreas, Zhao, Liang
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
Subjects:
Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14668
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866917647736635392
author Ling, Chen
Chowdhury, Tanmoy
Ji, Jie
Li, Sirui
Züfle, Andreas
Zhao, Liang
author_facet Ling, Chen
Chowdhury, Tanmoy
Ji, Jie
Li, Sirui
Züfle, Andreas
Zhao, Liang
contents Source localization aims to locate information diffusion sources only given the diffusion observation, which has attracted extensive attention in the past few years. Existing methods are mostly tailored for single networks and may not be generalized to handle more complex networks like cross-networks. Cross-network is defined as two interconnected networks, where one network's functionality depends on the other. Source localization on cross-networks entails locating diffusion sources on the source network by only giving the diffused observation in the target network. The task is challenging due to challenges including: 1) diffusion sources distribution modeling; 2) jointly considering both static and dynamic node features; and 3) heterogeneous diffusion patterns learning. In this work, we propose a novel method, namely CNSL, to handle the three primary challenges. Specifically, we propose to learn the distribution of diffusion sources through Bayesian inference and leverage disentangled encoders to separately learn static and dynamic node features. The learning objective is coupled with the cross-network information propagation estimation model to make the inference of diffusion sources considering the overall diffusion process. Additionally, we also provide two novel cross-network datasets collected by ourselves. Extensive experiments are conducted on both datasets to demonstrate the effectiveness of \textit{CNSL} in handling the source localization on cross-networks.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2404_14668
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Source Localization for Cross Network Information Diffusion
Ling, Chen
Chowdhury, Tanmoy
Ji, Jie
Li, Sirui
Züfle, Andreas
Zhao, Liang
Social and Information Networks
Source localization aims to locate information diffusion sources only given the diffusion observation, which has attracted extensive attention in the past few years. Existing methods are mostly tailored for single networks and may not be generalized to handle more complex networks like cross-networks. Cross-network is defined as two interconnected networks, where one network's functionality depends on the other. Source localization on cross-networks entails locating diffusion sources on the source network by only giving the diffused observation in the target network. The task is challenging due to challenges including: 1) diffusion sources distribution modeling; 2) jointly considering both static and dynamic node features; and 3) heterogeneous diffusion patterns learning. In this work, we propose a novel method, namely CNSL, to handle the three primary challenges. Specifically, we propose to learn the distribution of diffusion sources through Bayesian inference and leverage disentangled encoders to separately learn static and dynamic node features. The learning objective is coupled with the cross-network information propagation estimation model to make the inference of diffusion sources considering the overall diffusion process. Additionally, we also provide two novel cross-network datasets collected by ourselves. Extensive experiments are conducted on both datasets to demonstrate the effectiveness of \textit{CNSL} in handling the source localization on cross-networks.
title Source Localization for Cross Network Information Diffusion
topic Social and Information Networks
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14668