New method discovers context effects in choice data.
problem Identifying context effects from choice data is challenging.
method Automatic discovery of context effects from observed choices.
result Automatic discovery of context effects from observed choices.
EmTract extracts emotions from financial social media text.
problem Understanding investor emotions in financial markets.
method Annotated data, DistilBERT model, embedding space augmentation.
result EmTract outperforms existing emotion classifiers.
Paper improves gender detection on social media using deep learning.
problem Traditional classifiers struggle with social media data volume.
method Ensemble deep learning with multi-model architectures.
result Improved gender detection accuracy on social media posts.
In this paper we analyze both the scientific activities of Cahit Arf, a Turkish mathematician, and the social context in which he worked. We also discuss his work and social environment leading to the discovery of Arf invariant, Arf rings, Arf closure and Hasse-Arf theorem.
The paper presents a dataset and evaluates context-aware TV content recommendations.
problem Lack of data supporting context-aware TV content recommendation systems.
method Developed a dataset of TV consumption with contextual information and evaluated prediction performance.
result Including contextual features improves prediction accuracy, with social and temporal context contributing significantly.
Proposes a new model for predicting future motion of road actors in autonomous vehicles.
problem Forecasting the long-term future motion of road actors for safe autonomous driving.
method Recurrent graph-based attentional approach with interpretable geometric and social relationships.
result Can produce diverse predictions conditioned on hypothetical or 'what-if' scenarios.
PHASE dataset simulates complex social interactions in physical environments.
problem Lack of datasets for evaluating physically grounded perception of complex social interactions.
method Created PHASE dataset of 2D animations with procedural generation and physics engine.
result SIMPLE model outperforms neural networks in recognizing complex social interactions.
Enhanced neural model detects misinformation by considering author context.
problem Plateaued accuracy in traditional rumor classifiers.
method Ensemble neural architecture with word-level attention and author context.
result Promising results on Twitter dataset, detecting rumors more accurately.
Enhances social spam detection using multi-level dependency of relational sequences.
problem Social spam detection in multi-relation social networks.
method Developed the Multi-level Dependency Model (MDM) to exploit long-term and short-term dependencies in user relational sequences.
result MDM improves social spam detection accuracy on a real-world multi-relational social network.
This research tackles unsupervised topic extraction in noisy social media data.
problem Capturing customer insights from social media data is challenging due to noise and heterogeneity.
method The research presents three nonparametric approaches based on the Variational Autoencoder framework: Embedded Dirichlet Process, Embedded Hierarchical Dirichlet Process, and time-aware Dynamic Embedded Dirichlet Process.
result The models achieve equal to better performance than state-of-the-art methods in topic extraction from noisy social media data.
Detects rumours using news propagation patterns and user interactions.
problem Rumours' negative impact on social media platforms.
method Deep learning approach that learns user representations and temporal interactions.
result State-of-the-art performance in rumour detection on Twitter and Weibo datasets.
Graph-Hist classifies social media graphs using feature histograms.
problem Classifying large, sparse social media graphs.
method Extracts latent features, bins nodes, and classifies based on multi-channel histograms.
result Improves bot detection in social media graphs.
New models study agent learning in financial markets and social networks under time-varying noise.
problem Understanding agent learning in financial markets and social networks under time-varying noise.
method Developed new models using the DeGroot framework for social learning and studied discrete time random linear dynamical systems.
result Agents' beliefs converge in distribution, not necessarily normal, under certain conditions.
New tool detects weak and strong Islamophobic hate speech on social media.
problem Detecting Islamophobic hate speech on social media is challenging due to its varied nature.
method Built a multi-class classifier distinguishing between non-Islamophobic, weak Islamophobic, and strong Islamophobic content using GloVe word embeddings.
result Accuracy of 77.6% and balanced accuracy of 83% on a dataset of 109,488 tweets.
Proposes a model to incentivize exploration in web platforms with payments.
problem Learning and social welfare goals of web platforms with myopic users.
method Contextual bandit model with payments to incentivize exploration.
result Achieves sublinear regret while maximizing cumulative social welfare.
The well-known Ising model used in statistical physics was adapted to a social dynamics context to simulate the adoption of a technological innovation. The model explicitly combines (a) an individual's perception of the advantages of an innovation and (b) social influence from members of the decision-maker's social net…
Detection of emerging topics are now receiving renewed interest motivated by the rapid growth of social networks. Conventional term-frequency-based approaches may not be appropriate in this context, because the information exchanged are not only texts but also images, URLs, and videos. We focus on the social aspects of…
Study of negative ads on social media during U.S. midterm elections.
problem Understanding the effectiveness and mechanisms of negative advertising on social media.
method Machine learning for sentiment analysis, AI image recognition, ordinal regressions.
result Negative ads are less effective than previously thought, anger is a key mechanism.
Paper benchmarks Bengali language classification tasks using MConv-LSTM network.
problem Lack of computational resources for NLP tasks in under-resourced languages like Bengali.
method Built three datasets, BengFastText word embeddings, and MConv-LSTM network for hate speech detection, document classification, and sentiment analysis.
result BengFastText yields up to 92.30%, 82.25%, and 90.45% F1-scores in document classification, sentiment analysis, and hate speech detection respectively.
We consider a simple stochastic differential equation for modeling bubbles in social context. A prime example is bubbles in asset pricing, but similar mechanisms may control a range of social phenomena driven by psychological factors (for example, popularity of rock groups, or a number of students pursuing a given majo…
Fairness issues in AI systems impact many users, prompting new design considerations.
problem Fairness in AI systems that impact many users or stakeholders.
method Advocating for the use of social welfare functions that encode fairness in reinforcement learning.
result The need for fairness considerations in reinforcement learning systems.
Adversarial framework enforces fairness constraints on graph embeddings.
problem Fairness constraints in graph embeddings, especially age and gender.
method Adversarial framework for compositional fairness constraints.
result Framework allows for flexible combinations of fairness constraints.
This paper assesses biases in contextualized word representations.
problem Analyzing biases in contextualized word representations.
method Proposes assessing bias at the contextual word level, capturing contextual effects of bias.
result Demonstrates evidence of bias in contextual word models, including racial bias and exacerbated effects for intersectional minorities.
New algorithm uses negative user preferences to improve recommendation quality.
problem Insufficient utilization of negative user preferences in recommender systems.
method Explicitly models negative user preferences to recommend more positive items.
result Improves recommendation quality by increasing accuracy and reducing negative items.
Why do nations produce scientific research? This is a fundamental problem in the field of social studies of science. The paper confronts this question here by showing vital determinants of science to explain the sources of social power and wealth creation by nations. Firstly, this study suggests a new general definitio…
Geometric deep learning detects fake news on social media.
problem Detecting fake news on social media due to lack of context understanding.
method Propagation-based geometric deep learning model.
result Highly accurate fake news detection (92.7% ROC AUC).
Reduces variance in noisy social outcomes to improve policy evaluation and optimization.
problem Improving access to opportunity through personalized treatment decisions.
method Data-driven dimensionality-reduction using reduced rank regression to denoise multiple outcomes.
result Improves estimation error in policy evaluation and optimization, including on real-world data.
Gaussian Process model improves blood glucose prediction using contextual data.
problem Improving blood glucose prediction with contextual information.
method Gaussian Process model combining blood glucose and contextual data.
result Gaussian Process model outperforms common methods and blood glucose values alone.
This paper considers stochastic bandits with side observations, a model that accounts for both the exploration/exploitation dilemma and relationships between arms. In this setting, after pulling an arm i, the decision maker also observes the rewards for some other actions related to i. We will see that this model is su…
This work proposes multiple node representations for graphs, improving link prediction and community analysis.
problem Can nodes be best described by a single vector representation?
method A principled decomposition of the ego-network to learn multiple node representations.
result Improved link prediction accuracy by up to 90% and effective community analysis.
In this paper, we explore salient questions about user interests, conversations and friendships in the Facebook social network, using a novel latent space model that integrates several data types. A key challenge of studying Facebook's data is the wide range of data modalities such as text, network links, and categoric…
This paper models how features influence event triggers in high-dimensional networks.
problem Estimating context-dependent networks in high-dimensional marked point processes.
method Leveraging compositional time series and regularization methods, the paper considers autoregressive multinomial and logistic-normal models for network estimation.
result The logistic-normal model leads to a convex negative log-likelihood objective and captures dependence across categories.
Corporate governance struggles to curb fraud in a globalized economy.
problem Lack of effective international regulations against corporate fraud.
method Analyzes historical economic crises and the role of corporate governance.
result Corporate governance is insufficient to prevent large business fraud.
This work shifts focus from prediction to intervention in social systems.
problem The limitations of focusing solely on prediction in automated decision systems.
method Shift from prediction-focused paradigm to intervention-oriented approach.
result A new perspective unifies statistical frameworks and tools for ADS design, implementation, and evaluation.
Socio-economic inequality is measured using various indices. The Gini (g) index, giving the overall inequality is the most commonly used, while the recently introduced Kolkata (k) index gives a measure of 1−k fraction of population who possess top k fraction of wealth in the society. This article reviews the ch…
Improved TF-IDF for word relevance in health-care social media documents.
problem Determining word relevance in informal documents.
method Semantic Sensitive TF-IDF (STF-IDF) method.
result Decreased TF-IDF mean error rate by 50% to 13.7%.
The paper explores fair machine learning policies for balancing competing objectives in noisy data.
problem Balancing competing objectives in noisy data.
method Analyzes a class of policies that trace an empirical Pareto frontier based on learned scores.
result Characterizes optimal strategies and bounds Pareto errors due to score inaccuracies.
Classic economic science is reaching the limits of its explanatory powers. Complexity science uses an increasingly larger set of different methods to analyze physical, biological, cultural, social, and economic factors, providing a broader understanding of the socio-economic dynamics involved in the development of nati…
An increasing number of people are using online social networking services (SNSs), and a significant amount of information related to experiences in consumption is shared in this new media form. Text mining is an emerging technique for mining useful information from the web. We aim at discovering in particular tweets s…
Study uses social network data to analyze regional inflation trends.
problem Analyzing inflation trends using social media data.
method BERT neural networks for identifying pro-inflationary and disinflationary keywords.
result Models can visualize and classify inflationary keywords in different contexts.
AppsPred predicts smartphone app usage based on context.
problem Predicting personalized usage behavior of smartphone apps based on contexts.
method Random Forest machine learning technique considering multi-dimensional contexts.
result AppsPred significantly outperforms other machine learning approaches in predicting smartphone apps.
Survey on fake news identification and mitigation techniques.
problem Proliferation of fake news on social media impacts public opinion.
method Identification and mitigation techniques, focusing on content and user engagement.
result Significant advances in identification and mitigation methods.
Optimal entry into unemployment insurance schemes is analyzed.
problem Optimizing entry into unemployment insurance schemes.
method Solves an optimal stopping problem with a utility function.
result Optimal decisions for entry into unemployment insurance schemes.
Spatial machine learning improves poverty targeting in Indonesia.
problem Conventional PMT methods have high exclusion and inclusion errors due to spatial dependencies and regional heterogeneity.
method Integrates spatial contiguity matrices into SML models to identify and compare poverty clusters.
result SML reduces exclusion errors from 28% to 20% compared to standard machine learning models.
New method accounts for hidden context in preference learning for RLHF models.
problem Incomplete data with hidden context affects RLHF model outcomes.
method Distributional Preference Learning (DPL) methods estimate hidden context distributions.
result DPL methods reduce RLHF vulnerabilities by accounting for hidden context.
China integrates ESG into corporate strategy for sustainable growth.
problem Corporate focus on short-term financial metrics.
method Deep integration of ESG principles into corporate culture and strategy.
result Companies are expected to fulfill social responsibilities and create long-term value.
Consider a social network where only a few nodes (agents) have meaningful interactions in the sense that the conditional dependency graph over node attribute variables (behaviors) is sparse. A company that can only observe the interactions between its own customers will generally not be able to accurately estimate its …
This paper learns graph node representations using global context prediction.
problem Efficiently learning useful node representations from unlabeled graph data.
method Randomly selects node pairs, trains a neural net to predict contextual positions.
result Our approach outperforms many unsupervised methods and sometimes supervised ones.