Dynamic Message Passing and its Applications to Spreading Processes on Networks

Speaker(s)

Mateusz Wiliński

Affiliation

Instytucie Badawczym IDEAS.

Language of the talk

English

Date

March 4, 2026, 2:15 p.m.

Room

room 5070

Seminar

Seminar of Biomathematics and Game Theory Group

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Spreading models are routinely used to generate predictions for a plethora of diffusion processes on networks, whereby infectious diseases, opinions, or failures propagate in natural, social, and technological systems. In my talk I will describe the dynamic message passing, an inference method derived from belief propagation (cavity method). I will focus on its applications, especially in the regime of uncertainty and/or partial observation. I will also discuss its limitations connected to the loopinnes of the graph, as well as the unidirectional nature of the process for which it is derived. Finally, I will propose some interesting future directions, which could help to overcome the limitations.

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