A Bayesian nonparametric model for sparse dynamic networks

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• Konstantina Palla (University of Oxford)
• Tuesday 26 July 2016, 12:00-12:30
• Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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SNAW05 - Bayesian methods for networks

Co-authors: Francois Caron (Univ of OXford), Yee Whye Teh (Univ of Oxford)

We propose a Bayesian nonparametric prior for time-varying networks. To each node of the network is associated a positive parameter, modeling the sociability of that nodes. Sociabilities are assumed to evolve over time, and are modeled via a dynamic point process model. The model is able to (a) capture smooth evolution of the interactions between nodes, allowing edges to appear/disappear over time (b) capture long term evolution of the sociabilities of the nodes© and yields sparse graphs, where the number of edges grows subquadratically with the number of nodes. The evolution of the sociabilities is described by a tractable time-varying gamma process. We provide some theoretical insights into the model, describe a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithm for efficieent exploration of the posterior distribution and present results on synthetic and real world dataset.

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