Event
Gabor Lugosi, Pompeu Fabra University, Spain
Thursday, October 17, 2019 15:30to16:30
Room PK-5115 , Pavillon President-Kennedy, CA
Title: Network archeology: on revealing the past of random trees.
Abstract: Networks are often naturally modeled by random processes in which nodes of the network are added one-by-one, according to some random rule. Uniform and preferential attachment trees are among the simplest examples of such dynamically growing networks. The statistical problems we address in this talk regard discovering the past of the network when a present-day snapshot is observed. Such problems are sometimes termed "network archeology". We present a few results that show that, even in gigantic networks, a lot of information is preserved from the very early days