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Poster
A Linear Time Active Learning Algorithm for Link Classification
Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi · Claudio Gentile · Fabio Vitale · Giovanni Zappella

Wed Dec 05 07:00 PM -- 12:00 AM (PST) @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor
We present very efficient active learning algorithms for link classification in signed networks. Our algorithms are motivated by a stochastic model in which edge labels are obtained through perturbations of a initial sign assignment consistent with a two-clustering of the nodes. We provide a theoretical analysis within this model, showing that we can achieve an optimal (to whithin a constant factor) number of mistakes on any graph $G = (V,E)$ such that $|E|$ is at least order of $|V|^{3/2}$ by querying at most order of $|V|^{3/2}$ edge labels. More generally, we show an algorithm that achieves optimality to within a factor of order $k$ by querying at most order of $|V| + (|V|/k)^{3/2}$ edge labels. The running time of this algorithm is at most of order $|E| + |V|\log|V|$.

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Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
Claudio Gentile (INRIA)
Fabio Vitale (University of Lille)
Giovanni Zappella (Amazon, Berlin)

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