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Unsupervised Robust Nonparametric Learning Of Hidden Community Properties

Langovoy, Mikhail  
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Gotmare, Akhilesh
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Jaggi, Martin  
May 1, 2019
Mathematical Foundations Of Computing

We consider learning of fundamental properties of communities in large noisy networks, in the prototypical situation where the nodes or users are split into two classes according to a binary property, e.g., according to their opinions or preferences on a topic. For learning these properties, we propose a nonparametric, unsupervised, and scalable graph scan procedure that is, in addition, robust against a class of powerful adversaries. In our setup, one of the communities can fall under the influence of a knowledgeable adversarial leader, who knows the full network structure, has unlimited computational resources and can completely foresee our planned actions on the network. We prove strong consistency of our results in this setup with minimal assumptions. In particular, the learning procedure estimates the baseline activity of normal users asymptotically correctly with probability 1; the only assumption being the existence of a single implicit community of asymptotically negligible logarithmic size. We provide experiments on real and synthetic data to illustrate the performance of our method, including examples with adversaries.

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research article
DOI
10.3934/mfc.2019010
Web of Science ID

WOS:000474342600004

Author(s)
Langovoy, Mikhail  
Gotmare, Akhilesh
Jaggi, Martin  
Date Issued

2019-05-01

Published in
Mathematical Foundations Of Computing
Volume

2

Issue

2

Start page

127

End page

147

Subjects

Computer Science, Theory & Methods

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Computer Science

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nonparametric learning

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unsupervised learning

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hidden community

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scan estimator

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community properties

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learning for networks

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adversarial learning

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non-sparse graphs

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crawler

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scalability

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scan

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algorithms

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networks

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