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Modeling Events with Cascades of Poisson Processes
Aleksandr Simma, Michael Jordan
Abstract:
We present a probabilistic model of events in continuous time in which each event triggers a Poisson process of successor events. The ensemble of observed events is thereby modeled as a superposition of Poisson processes. Efficient inference is feasible under this model with an EM algorithm. Moreover, the EM algorithm can be implemented as a distributed algorithm, permitting the model to be applied to very large datasets. We apply these techniques to the modeling of Twitter messages and the revision history of Wikipedia.
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Pages: 546-555
PS Link:
PDF Link: /papers/10/p546-simma.pdf
BibTex:
@INPROCEEDINGS{Simma10,
AUTHOR = "Aleksandr Simma
and Michael Jordan",
TITLE = "Modeling Events with Cascades of Poisson Processes",
BOOKTITLE = "Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Conference Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-10)",
PUBLISHER = "AUAI Press",
ADDRESS = "Corvallis, Oregon",
YEAR = "2010",
PAGES = "546--555"
}
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