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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Postdoctoral Associate Position in Biosocial Science in the Human Nature Lab! We have a cutting edge research agenda in human social chemosignaling. Scientists with an interest in olfaction and AI or with experience in GC/MS or animal chemosignaling are especially encouraged. Please repost.
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Yale University, Sociology - Human Nature Lab
Job #AJO30989, Postdoctoral Associate Position in Biosocial Science, Sociology - Human Nature Lab, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, US
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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
if your work touches privacy, security, resilience, AI, or analytics in healthcare/medical devices, please consider HMD-SPiRiT 2026. Nov 4 in San Jose; submissions due Sept 5. Topics span health data, medical devices, AI, PETs & genomics: tps.ieee-cs.org/2026/hmd-spi...
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2nd IEEE HMD-SPiRiT Workshop | IEEE TPS 2026
IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems and Applications
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Ian Hussey @ianhussey.mmmdata.io · 14/08/2026
I’ve been told for years that it’s legally and ethically impossible to share medical RCT data. In 2024, the BMJ made sharing anonymised data mandatory, and now lots* of folk do it. Interesting how the barriers evaporated like that, isn’t it? *not everyone, compliance problems exist.
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Availability of clinical trial individual patient data in the BMJ before and after adoption of a stringent data-sharing policy, compared with recent rates at other major medical journals
Background In 2024, the BMJ updated its data-sharing policy for clinical trials, requiring open deposit of deidentified individual participant data (IPD) before publication. We considered whether data...
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Dean Eckles @eckles.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
We're excited to be hosting CODE@MIT again this fall! We invite a mix of work involving experimentation — methods, cool experiments, industry reports, etc. Look for more info later on this year's invited speakers.
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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
arxiv.org/abs/2305.16590 addresses a trilemma in seeding under costly and privacy-sensitive network information to balance (i) cost of acquiring network data, (ii) benefit of improved seeding from more network data, and (iii) privacy loss from using network data (in both local & central DP regimes)
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Seeding with Differentially Private Network Information
In public health interventions such as distributing preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention, decision makers often use seeding algorithms to identify key individuals who can amplify interven...
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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
theoretical analyses of sample complexity, privacy budget, and utility guarantees + an HIV-prevention case study for targeting high-risk individuals with pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) using empirically grounded simulations of sexual-activity networks among men who have sex with men (MSM).
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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
arxiv.org/abs/2305.16590 addresses a trilemma in seeding under costly and privacy-sensitive network information to balance (i) cost of acquiring network data, (ii) benefit of improved seeding from more network data, and (iii) privacy loss from using network data (in both local & central DP regimes)
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Seeding with Differentially Private Network Information
In public health interventions such as distributing preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention, decision makers often use seeding algorithms to identify key individuals who can amplify interven...
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Alex Teytelboym @t8el.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
The list of 290 papers we accepted for EC'26 is now up: ec26.sigecom.org/program/acce... We are really grateful to the whole programme committee for their hard work and to the authors for submitting many terrific papers. See you all in Rome in July 🍕🇮🇹🍝☀️🤖
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EC 2026 Accepted Papers - EC 2026
1. Congested Waiting Lists and Organ Allocation Authors: Itai Ashlagi (Stanford University), Ravi Jagadeesan (Stanford University), Pengyu Qian (Boston University) 2. Automated Social Science: Languag...
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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
@yuxin-pitt.bsky.social 's works span the theory-application spectrum nicely. In privacy-aware sequential learning (arxiv.org/abs/2502.19525), he develops randomized mechanisms that mitigate herding, providing new theoretical insights into how noise can enhance learning rather than hinder it. 1/3
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Privacy-Aware Sequential Learning
In settings like vaccination registries, individuals act after observing others, and the resulting public records can expose private information. We study privacy-preserving sequential learning, where...
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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
In other empirical work, he analyzes large-scale social platform data to reconstruct viral cascades and draw conclusions about differences in propagation patterns across modalities and message types/topics (arxiv.org/abs/2505.18099). 3/3
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Structural Dynamics of Harmful Content Dissemination on WhatsApp
WhatsApp, a platform with more than two billion global users, plays a crucial role in digital communication, but also serves as a vector for harmful content such as misinformation, hate speech, and po...
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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
In seeding with differentially private network information (arxiv.org/abs/2305.16590) and differential privacy for network connectedness indices (arxiv.org/abs/2603.15609), he provides applied methods with strong theoretical guarantees for network targeting and data release tasks. 2/3
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Seeding with Differentially Private Network Information
In public health interventions such as distributing preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for HIV prevention, decision makers often use seeding algorithms to identify key individuals who can amplify interven...
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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
@yuxin-pitt.bsky.social 's works span the theory-application spectrum nicely. In privacy-aware sequential learning (arxiv.org/abs/2502.19525), he develops randomized mechanisms that mitigate herding, providing new theoretical insights into how noise can enhance learning rather than hinder it. 1/3
arxiv.org
Privacy-Aware Sequential Learning
In settings like vaccination registries, individuals act after observing others, and the resulting public records can expose private information. We study privacy-preserving sequential learning, where...
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Nikhil Garg @nkgarg.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
The EAAMO conference deadline is coming up! conference.eaamo.org/cfp/ Great community at intersection of CS-Operations-Econ and social good. Flexible publication format (e.g., non-archival option) and so costless to submit here as well!
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Call for Participation
ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and Optimization
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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
moment bound is tighter than Chernoff's bound Philips, Thomas K., and Randolph Nelson. The American Statistician 49.2 (1995): 175-178. www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Dean Eckles @eckles.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Academic fields differ in their degree of consensus about what "better" publication venues are — here shown both for consensus about the "top 5" and for pairwise choices. Hello #econsky :) arxiv.org/abs/2603.00807 @jugander.bsky.social @danlarremore.bsky.social @aaronclauset.bsky.social
Figure 2: Fields vary widely in their consensus around top-5 venues and the general alignment of their prefer- ences. Whether one uses a field-level ranking constructed from the pairwise comparisons of all respondents in a field to predict an individual’s pairwise comparisons (horizontal axis) or assesses the degree to which individuals in a field agree on a top-5 (vertical axis), some fields (e.g. Economics) demonstrate a much more overlapping and organized set of preferences than others (e.g. Computer science).
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Dean Eckles @eckles.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
⚙️ Working at the intersection of causality and networks? We're organizing a satellite event at @netsciconf.bsky.social in Boston on June 1st. The focus is networks science and causal inference. Submit your work by March 10th! causnets.github.io
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CausNetS: Toward a Causal Network Science
A NetSci 2026 Satellite
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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
WINE tutorial on Differential Privacy for Strategic Information Sharing and Learning today at 2 pm EST, in person and on zoom, link: sites.google.com/pitt.edu/win... with @jubaz.bsky.social @papachristoumarios.bsky.social and @yuxin-pitt.bsky.social
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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 20/10/2025
Announcing (w @adamsmith.xyz @thejonullman.bsky.social) the 2025 edition of the Foundations of Responsible Computing Job Market Profiles! Check out 40 job market candidates in mathematical research in computation and society writ large! Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1zvsr...
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Bayesian probability, like frequentist probability, is a model-based activity that is mathematically anchored by physical randomization at one end and calibration to a reference set at the other statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/10/20/b...
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Bayesian probability, like frequentist probability, is a model-based activity that is mathematically anchored by physical randomization at one end and calibration to a reference set at the other | St...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 04/10/2025
A 2024 study found that ants best humans at tests of collective intelligence. Learn more on #WorldAnimalDay: scim.ag/42nMvQJ
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Cameron Patrick @cameronpat.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
I could have sworn I created this before on our Previous Parish, but couldn't find it so made it fresh. I present: OUR BLESSED mixed models // THEIR BARBAROUS fixed effects
OUR BLESSED mixed models vs THEIR BARABAROUS fixed effects
OUR GLORIOUS Mundlak device vs THEIR WICKED demeaning
OUR GREAT variance components vs THEIR PRIMITIVE dummy variables
OUR NOBLE partial pooling vs THEIR BACKWARD unbiased estimates
OUR HEROIC maximum likelihoos vs THEIR BRUTISH least squares
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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 25/08/2025
New differential #privacy textbook in town: "DP in Artificial Intelligence: From Theory to Practice", by @nandofioretto.bsky.social and @vanhentenryck.bsky.social. Open access, w/ chapters by @jubaz.bsky.social, @grahamrc.bsky.social, and @stein.ke! www.nowpublishers.com/article/Book...
Front cover: Differential Privacy in Artificial Intelligence: From Theory to Practice, now Publishers
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Experimentation and thinking at the level of a program of experiments statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/05/e...
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Experimentation and thinking at the level of a program of experiments | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Jon Ullman @thejonullman.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
🚨 I am co-chairing ALT 2026 this year with Matus Telgarsky. The submission server is open so please submit your best work! Deadline: Oct 2, 2025 AoE Confernece: Feb 23-26, 2026 in Toronto! Website: algorithmiclearningtheory.org/alt2026/
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ALT 2026 | ALT 2026 Homepage
The 37th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory
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medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Socio-Spatial Patterns of Suicide Mortality in the United States www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Survey Statistics: connections to experimental design statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/02/s...
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Survey Statistics: connections to experimental design | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
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Emma Pierson @emmapierson.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
🚨 New postdoc position in our lab at Berkeley EECS! 🚨 (please reshare) We seek applicants with experience in language modeling who are excited about high-impact applications in the health and social sciences! More info in thread 1/3
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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Applications are open for SFI's 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships. SFI offers early-career scholars intellectual freedom, competitive benefits, research funds, and collaboration with leading scientists. Learn more: santafe.edu/news-center/news/join-sfi-as-a-complexity-postdoctoral-fellow
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Ben Golub @bengolub.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
I've been working on a new tool, Refine, to make scholars more productive. If you're interested in being among the very first to try the beta, please read on. Refine leverages the best current AI models to draw your attention to potential errors and clarity issues in research paper drafts. 1/
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Luca Maria Aiello @lajello.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
How information sharing in social media has slowly shifted from public posting to private channels. Strong empirical evidence from Facebook by the one and only Kiran Garimella. DETOX #ICWSM.
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Kenny Joseph @kennyjoseph.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
UB's new Department of AI and Society is hiring faculty across ranks (Assistant, Associate, Full Professor). We’re looking for transdisciplinary scholars interested in building AI by society, for society. Start dates begin Fall 2025. More info: www.ubjobs.buffalo.edu/postings/57734
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Assistant, Associate or Full Professor, AI & Society
The Department of AI and Society (AIS) at the University at Buffalo (UB) invites candidates to apply for multiple positions as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, or Full Professor. The new AIS ...
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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Great news! congrats:)
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Dean Eckles @eckles.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Nice new paper in PNAS providing further evidence that random/long ties help social contagions — even many that would be labeled "complex contagions" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @davidlazer.bsky.social
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alex hayes @alexpghayes.com · 15/07/2025
~~ making sense of academic statistics ~~ i wrote about the confusing relationship between statistics and data analysis, and also about how statistics relates to science #statistics #rstats #datascience www.alexpghayes.com/post/making-...
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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
ACM EAAMO, which is coming to Pitt this Fall, has two events for students: a doctoral consortium and a poster session, both of which are due July 25th - poster session conference.eaamo.org/cfp/call_for... - doctoral consortium conference.eaamo.org/cfp/call_for...
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Call for Posters
We seek poster contributions from different fields that offer insights into the intersectional design and impacts of algorithms, optimization, and mechanism design with a grounding in the social scien...
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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
ACM EAAMO, which is coming to Pitt this Fall, has two events for students: a doctoral consortium and a poster session, both of which are due July 25th - poster session conference.eaamo.org/cfp/call_for... - doctoral consortium conference.eaamo.org/cfp/call_for...
conference.eaamo.org
Call for Posters
We seek poster contributions from different fields that offer insights into the intersectional design and impacts of algorithms, optimization, and mechanism design with a grounding in the social scien...
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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
- differentially private distributed estimation & learning arxiv.org/abs/2306.15865 IISE transactions, featured: content.presspage.com/uploads/2602... - differentially private distributed inference arxiv.org/abs/2402.08156 - privacy-preserving sequential learning arxiv.org/abs/2502.19525 (FORC'25)
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Who Sees Who?
In the comedy Home Alone, a burglar posing as a police officer walks door to door during the holidays to find out which families will be traveling, leaving their empty homes easy prey for a break-in. ...
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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
nice piece by Pitt Swanson School of Engineering, showcasing three recent privacy works with @papachristoumarios.bsky.social and @yuxin-pitt.bsky.social - news.engineering.pitt.edu/who-sees-who/
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Who Sees Who?
In the comedy Home Alone, a burglar posing as a police officer walks door to door during the holidays to find out which families will be traveling, leaving their empty homes easy prey for a break-in. ...
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Brett Hollenbeck @bretthollenbeck.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
🚨Free data alert!! 🚨 Please share. Large new dataset of Amazon product reviews, including full text and photos and product characteristics, with individual *reviews labeled as fake reviews*. I believe this is the first publicly available data of this kind. github.com/bretthollenb...
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Philipp Lorenz-Spreen @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social · 19/06/2025
We are hiring, @arc-mpib.bsky.social a postdoc for a project to investigate why citizens feel alienated from liberal democracy and how a shared sense of reality can be restored. Work with @lfoswaldo.bsky.social @anaskozyreva.bsky.social, Ralph Hertwig and me: www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/2084802/2025...
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Postdoctoral Position | Center for Adaptive Rationality
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Johan Ugander @jugander.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
New by @ericfeltham.bsky.social, Laura Forastiere, and @nachristakis.bsky.social: an extraordinarily ambitious effort to scale up and bring Krackhardt's classic work on cognitive social structures (CSSs) into the 21st century. Super excited to see it in print. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Cognitive representations of social networks in isolated villages - Nature Human Behaviour
Feltham et al. develop a sampling strategy to evaluate social network cognition across 82 Honduran villages, systematically mapping the underlying village networks.
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Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
People not only form social networks, they construct mental maps of them. People think about the ties between other people, including ties among individuals to whom they are not themselves directly connected. These “cognitive social networks” have rarely been studied. 1/
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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
in a sequential social learning scenario, a sequence of agents make binary decisions on the basis of their private signals and information available to them from past choices. information cascade in this scenario refers to discounting of new private information in favor of past public actions
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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
@yuxin-pitt.bsky.social presenting shortly in responsiblecomputing.org/forc-2025/ (extended abstract: drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/vol... - working paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.19525) also last month at the Network Science in Economics conference, both in beautiful Stanford bsky.app/profile/yuxi...
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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
smooth randomized response guarantees learning at log(n) rate that is much faster than the sqrt(log n) rate in the non-private case & achieves finite expected times to the first correct action and last incorrect action, both of which are infinite in the non-private case + same eps can minimize both
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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
a simple randomized response that flips actions with constant probability will prevents any cascade and asymptotic learning, but we can use a smooth version that hides signal locations within a range; this way, actions can be flipped with a probability that decays smoothly outside the range
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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
for Gaussian signals, agent n switches its action from 0 to 1 when its private signal exceeds a threshold t(l_n) as a function of the log-likelihood ratio of public belief. In the non-private case, l_n grows as sqrt(log n), and agents eventually (but very slowly) take the correction almost surely
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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
threshold k for a cascade (the number where having k signals of one type more than the other, makes following agents ignore their private signal and initiate a cascade) is fixed over intervals of eps. At interval boundaries, decreasing eps increases k by one and correct cascade probability jumps up
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Amin Rahimian @rahimian.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
for binary signals, eps-DP is achieved using a randomized response mechanism that flips actions with probability 1/(1+e^eps) until a cascade occurs. The probability of correct cascades does not increase compared to the non-private baseline, but it does not vary monotonically with eps either
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