(2015) Back to the Past: Source Identification in Diffusion Networks from Partially Observed Cascades.
Abstract
When a piece of malicious information becomes rampant in an information diffusion network, can we identify the source node that originally introduced the piece into the network and infer the time when it initiated this? Being able to do so is critical for curtailing the spread of malicious information, and reducing the potential losses incurred. This is a very challenging problem since typically only incomplete traces are observed and we need to unroll the incomplete traces into the past in order to pinpoint the source. In this paper, we tackle this problem by developing a two-stage framework, which first learns a continuous-time diffusion network model based on historical diffusion traces and then identifies the source of an incomplete diffusion trace by maximizing the likelihood of the trace under the learned model. Experiments on both large synthetic and real-world data show that our framework can effectively go back to the past, and pinpoint the source node and its initiation time significantly more accurately than previous state-of-the-arts.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (A Paper) (Paper) |
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| Additional Information: | pub_id: 773 Bibtex: source_ident_diff_nw_2015 URL date: None |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | networking |
| Divisions: | Unspecified |
| Conference: | AISTATS International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics |
| Depositing User: | Sebastian Weisgerber |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Jul 2017 10:28 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Jul 2019 12:08 |
| Primary Research Area: | NRA1: Trustworthy Information Processing |
| URI: | https://publications.cispa.saarland/id/eprint/175 |
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