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A general solution to the preferential selection model
arXiv (Cornell University)
06 Aug 2020
Abstract
We provide a general analytic solution to Herbert Simon's 1955 model for
time-evolving novelty functions. This has far-reaching consequences: Simon's is
a pre-cursor model for Barabasi's 1999 preferential attachment model for
growing social networks, and our general abstraction of it more considers
attachment to be a form of link selection. We show that any system which can be
modeled as instances of types---i.e., occurrence data (frequencies)---can be
generatively modeled (and simulated) from a distributional perspective with an
exceptionally high-degree of accuracy.
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- Title
- A general solution to the preferential selection model
- Creators
- Jake Ryland WilliamsDiana Solano-OropezaJacob R Hunsberger
- Publication Details
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Resource Type
- Preprint
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Information Science
- Other Identifier
- 991021806673104721