Tianxi Li’s contribution to the Discussion of ‘Root and community inference on the latent growth process of a network’ by Crane and Xu
Tianxi Li 对《网络潜在生长过程的根节点与社群推断》的讨论
I want to congratulate Prof. Crane and Prof. Xu for their impressive work. The paper introduces two novel components: the PAPER model and the inference framework for the tree. Both of them bring many insights into handling complex network data and open the doors to new problems. I will discuss extension problems from both aspects. The PAPER model assumes preferential attachment trees with additional the Erdős-Rényi (ER) edges. One nice property of the model lies in its…