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ChoiceRank: Identifying Preferences from Node Traffic in Networks

Maystre, Lucas  
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Grossglauser, Matthias  
2017
Proceedings of Machine Learning Research
International Conference on Machine Learning

Understanding how users navigate in a network is of high interest in many applications. We consider a setting where only aggregate node-level traffic is observed and tackle the task of learning edge transition probabilities. We cast it as a preference learning problem, and we study a model where choices follow Luce's axiom. In this case, the O(n) marginal counts of node visits are a sufficient statistic for the O(n^2) transition probabilities. We show how to make the inference problem well-posed regardless of the network's structure, and we present ChoiceRank, an iterative algorithm that scales to networks that contains billions of nodes and edges. We apply the model to two clickstream datasets and show that it successfully recovers the transition probabilities using only the network structure and marginal (node-level) traffic data. Finally, we also consider an application to mobility networks and apply the model to one year of rides on New York City's bicycle-sharing system.

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Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Maystre, Lucas  
Grossglauser, Matthias  
Date Issued

2017

Published in
Proceedings of Machine Learning Research
Volume

70

Subjects

ranking

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network

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preferences

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machine learning

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pagerank

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ml-ai

Note

More information at http://lucas.maystre.ch/choicerank

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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INDY1  
Event nameEvent placeEvent date
International Conference on Machine Learning

Sydney, Australia

August 6-11, 2017

Available on Infoscience
June 15, 2017
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/138455
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