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Social Comparisons and Contributions to Online Communities: A Field Experiment on MovieLens

Authors: Yan Chen, Maxwell Harper, Joseph Konstan, and Sherry Li

Published in: Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 7271, Computational Social Systems and the Internet (2007)


Abstract
We explore the use of social comparison theory as a natural mechanism to increase contributions to an online movie recommendation community by investigating the effects of social information on user behavior in an online field experiment. We find that, after receiving behavioral information about the median user's total number of movie ratings, users below the median demonstrate a 530% increase in the number of monthly movie ratings, while those above the median decrease their monthly ratings by 62%. Movements from both ends converge towards the median, indicating conformity towards a newly-established social norm in a community where such a norm had been absent. Furthermore, the social information has a more dramatic effect on those below the median, suggesting an interaction between conformity and competitive preferences. When given outcome information about the average user's net benefit score from the system, consistent with social preference theory, users with net benefit scores above average contribute 94% of the new updates in the database. In both treatments, we find a highly significant Red Queen Effect.

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Yan Chen, Maxwell Harper, Joseph Konstan, and Sherry Li. Social Comparisons and Contributions to Online Communities: A Field Experiment on MovieLens. In Computational Social Systems and the Internet. Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings, Volume 7271, pp. 1-7, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2007)


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@InProceedings{chen_et_al:DagSemProc.07271.14,
  author =	{Chen, Yan and Harper, Maxwell and Konstan, Joseph and Li, Sherry},
  title =	{{Social Comparisons and Contributions to Online Communities: A Field Experiment on MovieLens}},
  booktitle =	{Computational Social Systems and the Internet},
  pages =	{1--7},
  series =	{Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)},
  ISSN =	{1862-4405},
  year =	{2007},
  volume =	{7271},
  editor =	{Peter Cramton and Rudolf M\"{u}ller and Eva Tardos and Moshe Tennenholtz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.07271.14},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-11550},
  doi =		{10.4230/DagSemProc.07271.14},
  annote =	{Keywords: Social comparison, conformity, public goods, embedded online field experiment}
}

Chen, Guoyang

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Towards Ontology-Based Program Analysis

Authors: Yue Zhao, Guoyang Chen, Chunhua Liao, and Xipeng Shen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 56, 30th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2016)


Abstract
Program analysis is fundamental for program optimizations, debugging, and many other tasks. But developing program analyses has been a challenging and error-prone process for general users. Declarative program analysis has shown the promise to dramatically improve the productivity in the development of program analyses. Current declarative program analysis is however subject to some major limitations in supporting cooperations among analysis tools, guiding program optimizations, and often requires much effort for repeated program preprocessing. In this work, we advocate the integration of ontology into declarative program analysis. As a way to standardize the definitions of concepts in a domain and the representation of the knowledge in the domain, ontology offers a promising way to address the limitations of current declarative program analysis. We develop a prototype framework named PATO for conducting program analysis upon ontology-based program representation. Experiments on six program analyses confirm the potential of ontology for complementing existing declarative program analysis. It supports multiple analyses without separate program preprocessing, promotes cooperative Liveness analysis between two compilers, and effectively guides a data placement optimization for Graphic Processing Units (GPU).

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Yue Zhao, Guoyang Chen, Chunhua Liao, and Xipeng Shen. Towards Ontology-Based Program Analysis. In 30th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 56, pp. 26:1-26:25, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2016)


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@InProceedings{zhao_et_al:LIPIcs.ECOOP.2016.26,
  author =	{Zhao, Yue and Chen, Guoyang and Liao, Chunhua and Shen, Xipeng},
  title =	{{Towards Ontology-Based Program Analysis}},
  booktitle =	{30th European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2016)},
  pages =	{26:1--26:25},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-014-9},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2016},
  volume =	{56},
  editor =	{Krishnamurthi, Shriram and Lerner, Benjamin S.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2016.26},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-61201},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ECOOP.2016.26},
  annote =	{Keywords: ontology, compiler, program analysis}
}

Chen, Yanlin

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Track A: Algorithms, Complexity and Games
Quantum Algorithms and Lower Bounds for Linear Regression with Norm Constraints

Authors: Yanlin Chen and Ronald de Wolf

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 261, 50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023)


Abstract
Lasso and Ridge are important minimization problems in machine learning and statistics. They are versions of linear regression with squared loss where the vector θ ∈ ℝ^d of coefficients is constrained in either 𝓁₁-norm (for Lasso) or in 𝓁₂-norm (for Ridge). We study the complexity of quantum algorithms for finding ε-minimizers for these minimization problems. We show that for Lasso we can get a quadratic quantum speedup in terms of d by speeding up the cost-per-iteration of the Frank-Wolfe algorithm, while for Ridge the best quantum algorithms are linear in d, as are the best classical algorithms. As a byproduct of our quantum lower bound for Lasso, we also prove the first classical lower bound for Lasso that is tight up to polylog-factors.

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Yanlin Chen and Ronald de Wolf. Quantum Algorithms and Lower Bounds for Linear Regression with Norm Constraints. In 50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 261, pp. 38:1-38:21, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023)


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@InProceedings{chen_et_al:LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.38,
  author =	{Chen, Yanlin and de Wolf, Ronald},
  title =	{{Quantum Algorithms and Lower Bounds for Linear Regression with Norm Constraints}},
  booktitle =	{50th International Colloquium on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP 2023)},
  pages =	{38:1--38:21},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-278-5},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2023},
  volume =	{261},
  editor =	{Etessami, Kousha and Feige, Uriel and Puppis, Gabriele},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.38},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-180907},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ICALP.2023.38},
  annote =	{Keywords: Quantum algorithms, Regularized linear regression, Lasso, Ridge, Lower bounds}
}
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Improved (Provable) Algorithms for the Shortest Vector Problem via Bounded Distance Decoding

Authors: Divesh Aggarwal, Yanlin Chen, Rajendra Kumar, and Yixin Shen

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 187, 38th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2021)


Abstract
The most important computational problem on lattices is the Shortest Vector Problem (SVP). In this paper, we present new algorithms that improve the state-of-the-art for provable classical/quantum algorithms for SVP. We present the following results. 1) A new algorithm for SVP that provides a smooth tradeoff between time complexity and memory requirement. For any positive integer 4 ≤ q ≤ √n, our algorithm takes q^{13n+o(n)} time and requires poly(n)⋅ q^{16n/q²} memory. This tradeoff which ranges from enumeration (q = √n) to sieving (q constant), is a consequence of a new time-memory tradeoff for Discrete Gaussian sampling above the smoothing parameter. 2) A quantum algorithm that runs in time 2^{0.9533n+o(n)} and requires 2^{0.5n+o(n)} classical memory and poly(n) qubits. This improves over the previously fastest classical (which is also the fastest quantum) algorithm due to [Divesh Aggarwal et al., 2015] that has a time and space complexity 2^{n+o(n)}. 3) A classical algorithm for SVP that runs in time 2^{1.741n+o(n)} time and 2^{0.5n+o(n)} space. This improves over an algorithm of [Yanlin Chen et al., 2018] that has the same space complexity. The time complexity of our classical and quantum algorithms are expressed using a quantity related to the kissing number of a lattice. A known upper bound of this quantity is 2^{0.402n}, but in practice for most lattices, it can be much smaller and even 2^o(n). In that case, our classical algorithm runs in time 2^{1.292n} and our quantum algorithm runs in time 2^{0.750n}.

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Divesh Aggarwal, Yanlin Chen, Rajendra Kumar, and Yixin Shen. Improved (Provable) Algorithms for the Shortest Vector Problem via Bounded Distance Decoding. In 38th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2021). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 187, pp. 4:1-4:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2021)


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@InProceedings{aggarwal_et_al:LIPIcs.STACS.2021.4,
  author =	{Aggarwal, Divesh and Chen, Yanlin and Kumar, Rajendra and Shen, Yixin},
  title =	{{Improved (Provable) Algorithms for the Shortest Vector Problem via Bounded Distance Decoding}},
  booktitle =	{38th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science (STACS 2021)},
  pages =	{4:1--4:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-180-1},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2021},
  volume =	{187},
  editor =	{Bl\"{a}ser, Markus and Monmege, Benjamin},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2021.4},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-136494},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2021.4},
  annote =	{Keywords: Lattices, Shortest Vector Problem, Discrete Gaussian Sampling, Time-Space Tradeoff, Quantum computation, Bounded distance decoding}
}
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