Positive-unlabeled learning in streaming networks

Shiyu Chang, Yang Zhang, Jiliang Tang, Dawei Yin, Yi Chang, Mark A. Hasegawa-Johnson, Thomas S. Huang

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Abstract

Data of many problems in real-world systems such as link prediction and one-class recommendation share common characteristics. First, data are in the form of positive-unlabeled (PU) measurements (e.g. Twitter "following", Facebook "like", etc.) that do not provide negative information, which can be naturally represented as networks. Second, in the era of big data, such data are generated temporally-ordered, continuously and rapidly, which determines its streaming nature. These common characteristics allow us to unify many problems into a novel framework - PU learning in streaming networks. In this paper, a principled probabilistic approach SPU is proposed to leverage the characteristics of the streaming PU inputs. In particular, Spu captures temporal dynamics and provides real-time adaptations and predictions by identifying the potential negative signals concealed in unlabeled data. Our empirical results on various real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework over other state-of-the-art methods in bothlink prediction and recommendation.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationKDD 2016 - Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages755-764
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781450342322
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 13 2016
Event22nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2016 - San Francisco, United States
Duration: Aug 13 2016Aug 17 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Volume13-17-August-2016

Other

Other22nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period8/13/168/17/16

Keywords

  • Continuous time
  • Dynamic network
  • Online learning
  • PU learning
  • Streaming link prediction
  • Streaming recommendation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Information Systems

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