User contributions in the form of posts, comments, and votes are essential to the success of online communities. However, allowing user participation also invites undesirable behavior such as trolling. In this paper, we characterize antisocial behavior in three large online discussion communities by analyzing users who…
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The electronic calendar is a valuable resource nowadays for managing our daily life appointments or schedules, also known as events, ranging from professional to highly personal. Researchers have studied various types of calendar events to predict smartphone user behavior for incoming mobile communications. However, th…
Social media systems rely on user feedback and rating mechanisms for personalization, ranking, and content filtering. However, when users evaluate content contributed by fellow users (e.g., by liking a post or voting on a comment), these evaluations create complex social feedback effects. This paper investigates how ra…
A standard belief on emerging collective behavior is that it emerges from simple individual rules. Most of the mathematical research on such collective behavior starts from imperative individual rules, like always go to the center. But how could an (optimal) individual rule emerge during a short period within the group…
Most real-world networks exhibit community structure, a phenomenon characterized by existence of node clusters whose intra-edge connectivity is stronger than edge connectivities between nodes belonging to different clusters. In addition to facilitating a better understanding of network behavior, community detection fin…
Local Communication Protocols for Learning Complex Swarm Behaviors with Deep Reinforcement Learningcs.MA
Swarm systems constitute a challenging problem for reinforcement learning (RL) as the algorithm needs to learn decentralized control policies that can cope with limited local sensing and communication abilities of the agents. While it is often difficult to directly define the behavior of the agents, simple communicatio…
To date, most studies on spam have focused only on the spamming phase of the spam cycle and have ignored the harvesting phase, which consists of the mass acquisition of email addresses. It has been observed that spammers conceal their identity to a lesser degree in the harvesting phase, so it may be possible to gain ne…
In online discussion communities, users can interact and share information and opinions on a wide variety of topics. However, some users may create multiple identities, or sockpuppets, and engage in undesired behavior by deceiving others or manipulating discussions. In this work, we study sockpuppetry across nine discu…
Paper aims to bridge semantic gap between ML and InfoSec by labeling malware datasets with behavioral features.
problem Semantic gap between ML and InfoSec communities hinders ML's impact in InfoSec.
method Surveyed existing malware datasets and features, labeled with behavioral features using threat reports.
result Behavioral labeling alters analysis from intent to executable behavior, bridging semantic gap.
We present a scalable nonparametric Bayesian method to perform network reconstruction from observed functional behavior that at the same time infers the communities present in the network. We show that the joint reconstruction with community detection has a synergistic effect, where the edge correlations used to inform…
A time-varying network reveals community structure in cryptocurrencies.
problem Investing in cryptocurrencies from different communities can diversify risk.
method Dynamic covariate-assisted spectral clustering method.
result Investors can earn 1.08% daily return by diversifying across communities.
Graph Ricci flow reveals hidden hierarchies in stock market correlations.
problem Detecting hidden structures in the complex stock market graph.
method Using graph Ricci curvature and flow techniques to analyze the NASDAQ 100 index.
result Algorithm detects hidden hierarchies, community behavior, and clustering in financial markets.
SIMCom: Statistical Sniffing of Inter-Module Communications for Run-time Hardware Trojan Detectioncs.CR
Timely detection of Hardware Trojans (HTs) has become a major challenge for secure integrated circuits. We present a run-time methodology for HT detection that employs a multi-parameter statistical traffic modeling of the communication channel in a given System-on-Chip (SoC), named as SIMCom. The main idea is to model …
Community detection is considered as a fundamental task in analyzing social networks. Even though many techniques have been proposed for community detection, most of them are based exclusively on the connectivity structures. However, there are node features in real networks, such as gender types in social networks, fee…
Behavioral finance has become an increasingly important subfield of finance. However the main parts of behavioral finance, prospect theory included, understand financial markets through individual investment behavior. Behavioral finance thereby ignores any interaction between participants. We introduce a socio-financia…
Common event-triggered state estimation (ETSE) algorithms save communication in networked control systems by predicting agents' behavior, and transmitting updates only when the predictions deviate significantly. The effectiveness in reducing communication thus heavily depends on the quality of the dynamics models used …
Cooperative communication plays a central role in theories of human cognition, language, development, culture, and human-robot interaction. Prior models of cooperative communication are algorithmic in nature and do not shed light on why cooperation may yield effective belief transmission and what limitations may arise …
Study shows market volatility affects optimal communication design for trading strategies.
problem Investigating how communication impacts trading strategy performance in multi-agent systems.
method 5-agent LLM-based trading systems across 450 experiments spanning 21 months, comparing 5 organizational structures.
result Communication improves performance but depends on market characteristics, with competitive conversation excelling in volatile tech stocks.
Cryptocurrencies return cross-predictability and technological similarity yield information on risk propagation and market segmentation. To investigate these effects, we build a time-varying network for cryptocurrencies, based on the evolution of return cross-predictability and technological similarities. We develop a …
The behaviors of patients with depression are usually difficult to predict because the patients demonstrate the symptoms of a depressive episode without a warning at unexpected times. The goal of this research is to build algorithms that detect signals of such unusual moments so that doctors can be proactive in approac…
We propose a targeted communication architecture for multi-agent reinforcement learning, where agents learn both what messages to send and whom to address them to while performing cooperative tasks in partially-observable environments. This targeting behavior is learnt solely from downstream task-specific reward withou…
The paper models social networks with varying levels of reciprocity.
problem Understanding diverse reciprocal behavior in social networks.
method Developed a preferential attachment model with heterogeneous reciprocity.
result Captures the heavy-tailed nature of empirical degree distributions and identifies multiple user groups.
Large Question-and-Answer (Q&A) platforms support diverse knowledge curation on the Web. While researchers have studied user behavior on the platforms in a variety of contexts, there is relatively little insight into important by-products of user behavior that also encode knowledge. Here, we analyze and model the macro…
We propose a unified mechanism for achieving coordination and communication in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL), through rewarding agents for having causal influence over other agents' actions. Causal influence is assessed using counterfactual reasoning. At each timestep, an agent simulates alternate actions t…
New framework for distributed nonparametric estimation under slow communication.
problem Efficiently estimate nonparametric models across multiple nodes with limited communication.
method Developed a general framework for nonparametric estimation under communication constraints.
result Derived minimax lower and upper bounds for various models.
Study examines herding behavior in stocks, US ETFs, and cryptocurrencies.
problem Understanding herding behavior in different types of investment vehicles.
method Cross-sectional Absolute Deviation model, Minimum Spanning Tree, Louvain community detection.
result Herding behavior exists at all times across all types of investment vehicles at a subset level.
ProxSkip achieves linear speedup in distributed non-convex optimization.
problem Achieving linear speedup in distributed non-convex optimization.
method Unified convergence analysis for stochastic non-convex, convex, and strongly convex problems.
result ProxSkip achieves linear speedup in the number of nodes under stochastic gradients.
The paper improves regret lower bounds for communicating MDPs.
problem Regret lower bounds for communicating MDPs.
method Lower bound proof and optimization problem formulation.
result Regret lower bound becomes significantly more complex in communicating MDPs.
Paper develops efficient algorithms for robust distributed learning with statistical guarantees.
problem Limited communication power and adversarial node behaviors in distributed learning.
method Surrogate likelihood framework and median/trimmed mean operations.
result Provable robustness against Byzantine failures and optimal statistical rates.
The increasing accessibility of data provides substantial opportunities for understanding user behaviors. Unearthing anomalies in user behaviors is of particular importance as it helps signal harmful incidents such as network intrusions, terrorist activities, and financial frauds. Many visual analytics methods have bee…
Study explores cyberbullying datasets and classifier generalization.
problem Cyberbullying detection across different online communities.
method Analysis of various cyberbullying datasets and classifier generalization.
result Insight into classifier generalization power and interaction.
In the age of globalization, it is natural that the stock market of each country is not independent form the other markets. In this case, collective behavior could be emerged form their dependency together. This article studies the collective behavior of a set of forty influential markets in the world economy with the …
Generalization Bounds for Noisy Iterative Algorithms Using Properties of Additive Noise Channelsstat.ML
The paper analyzes generalization of noisy iterative algorithms using communication theory.
problem Generalization of models trained by noisy iterative algorithms under different distributions.
method Connecting noisy iterative algorithms to additive noise channels in communication theory.
result Distribution-dependent generalization bounds for noisy iterative algorithms.
Patterns of mobile phone communications, coupled with the information of the social network graph and financial behavior, allow us to make inferences of users' socio-economic attributes such as their income level. We present here several methods to extract features from mobile phone usage (calls and messages), and comp…
Humor is a unique and creative communicative behavior displayed during social interactions. It is produced in a multimodal manner, through the usage of words (text), gestures (vision) and prosodic cues (acoustic). Understanding humor from these three modalities falls within boundaries of multimodal language; a recent r…
MpFL models clients as strategic players to reach equilibrium with less communication.
problem Real-world clients act independently with individual objectives, not aligned with a shared global model.
method MpFL uses game-theoretic modeling and PEARL-SGD algorithm for local updates and communication.
result PEARL-SGD reaches an equilibrium with less communication than non-local updates in stochastic setup.
Badges are commonly used in online platforms as incentives for promoting contributions. It is widely accepted that badges "steer" people's behavior toward increasing their rate of contributions before obtaining the badge. This paper provides a new probabilistic model of user behavior in the presence of badges. By apply…
We present an effective technique for training deep learning agents capable of negotiating on a set of clauses in a contract agreement using a simple communication protocol. We use Multi Agent Reinforcement Learning to train both agents simultaneously as they negotiate with each other in the training environment. We al…
Study on network-valued processes with asynchronous updates, proving consistency in community and changepoint estimation.
problem Understanding the behavior of network-valued stochastic processes with asynchronous updates.
method Analysis of concentration properties of aggregated adjacency and Laplacian matrices for lazy network-valued stochastic processes.
result Demonstrates consistency of estimators in community and changepoint estimation problems.
Proposes CCCVAE for better single-cell clustering with cell-cell communication.
problem Improving single-cell RNA sequencing clustering by incorporating cell-cell communication.
method Integrates cell-cell communication into a variational autoencoder framework.
result Empirical results show CCCVAE outperforms standard VAEs in clustering performance.
FedNew: A Communication-Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Newton-Type Method for Federated Learningcs.LG
FedNew improves federated learning efficiency and privacy.
problem Low communication efficiency and privacy issues in Newton-type methods for federated learning.
method Introduces a two-level framework using ADMM for inverse Hessian-gradient approximation and Newton's method for global model updates, reducing communication overhead.
result FedNew achieves superior communication efficiency and privacy compared to existing methods.
A common data mining task on networks is community detection, which seeks an unsupervised decomposition of a network into structural groups based on statistical regularities in the network's connectivity. Although many methods exist, the No Free Lunch theorem for community detection implies that each makes some kind of…
Machine Learning (ML) solutions are nowadays distributed and are prone to various types of component failures, which can be encompassed in so-called Byzantine behavior. This paper introduces LiuBei, a Byzantine-resilient ML algorithm that does not trust any individual component in the network (neither workers nor serve…
The possibility of latency arbitrage in financial markets has led to the deployment of high-speed communication links between distant financial centers. These links are noisy and so there is a need for coding. In this paper, we develop a gametheoretic model of trading behavior where two traders compete to capture laten…
Game aims to improve social interactions for teenagers with ASD.
problem Improving social interactions for teenagers with ASD.
method Presentation of game structure, skeleton detection, and imitation learning methods.
result Game structure and support tools for skeleton detection and imitation learning presented.
Proposes GNAN model for detecting various network structures.
problem Detecting traditional communities in networks.
method GNAN model combining topology and node-attribute information.
result GNAN detects a broader range of network structures.
GGP models multivariate time series with latent sub-sequences for diverse behaviors.
problem Modeling multivariate time series with diverse behaviors and patterns.
method Graph Gamma Process (GGP) linear dynamical systems with latent sub-sequences.
result GGP models exhibit good predictive performance and reveal interpretable latent patterns.
Encouraging sustainable mobility patterns is at the forefront of policymaking at all scales of governance as the collective consciousness surrounding climate change continues to expand. Not every community, however, possesses the necessary economic or socio-cultural capital to encourage modal shifts away from private m…