TY - GEN
T1 - Network denoising in social media
AU - Gao, Huiji
AU - Wang, Xufei
AU - Tang, Jiliang
AU - Liu, Huan
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Social media expands the ways people communicate with each other. On a popular social media website, a user typically has hundreds of contacts (or friends) on average. As a person's social network grows, friend management is increasingly important for effective communications. Often, one can only afford to maintain close friendship in a small scale due to limited time and other resources. In other words, the majority of one's connections are so-so friends and do not hold strong influence on the user. One approach resorts to network denoising, by which unimportant connections are removed as noise. We study the challenges of network denoising in social media and how we can leverage a variety of social media information to denoise the links. We formulate the network denoising task as an optimization problem, and show the efficacy of our network denoising approach and its scalability experimentally in the domain of behavior inference.
AB - Social media expands the ways people communicate with each other. On a popular social media website, a user typically has hundreds of contacts (or friends) on average. As a person's social network grows, friend management is increasingly important for effective communications. Often, one can only afford to maintain close friendship in a small scale due to limited time and other resources. In other words, the majority of one's connections are so-so friends and do not hold strong influence on the user. One approach resorts to network denoising, by which unimportant connections are removed as noise. We study the challenges of network denoising in social media and how we can leverage a variety of social media information to denoise the links. We formulate the network denoising task as an optimization problem, and show the efficacy of our network denoising approach and its scalability experimentally in the domain of behavior inference.
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U2 - 10.1145/2492517.2492547
DO - 10.1145/2492517.2492547
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781450322409
T3 - Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013
SP - 564
EP - 571
BT - Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 2013 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2013
Y2 - 25 August 2013 through 28 August 2013
ER -