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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 10, 2013
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Cameron Alexander Marlow, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Dean Eckles, San Francisco, CA (US);
Brian Karrer, San Francisco, CA (US);
Johan Ugander, Ithaca, NY (US);
Lars Seren Backstrom, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jon Kleinberg, San Francisco, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, each node corresponding to a user of an online social network, identifying a plurality of clusters in the social graph using graph clustering, providing a treatment to a first set of users based on the clusters, and determining a treatment effect treatment for the users in the first set based on a network exposure to the treatment for each user.