Mining ‘Following’ Patterns from Big but Sparsely Distributed Social Network Data
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the current era of big data, advanced technology has led to easy collection or generation of high volumes of a wide variety of valuable data of different veracity. As rich sources of big data, social networks consist of users (or social entities) who are often linked by some interdependency such as `following' relationships. Since these big social networks keep growing at a high velocity, there are situations in which an individual user (or business) wants to find those frequently followed groups of social entities so that he can also follow the same groups. Discovery of these frequently followed groups can be challenging because the social networks are usually big (with lots of users/social entities) but can be sparsely distributed (with most users only know some but not all users/social entities in some portions of a social network). In this paper, we present a social network mining algorithm that uses different compressed models to space-efficiently represent social entities so as to facilitate the discovery of groups of frequently followed social entities from these big but sparsely distributed social networks. Evaluation results show the practicality of our algorithm in efficient mining of `following' patterns from big but sparsely distributed social networks.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".