Efficient Computation of Semivalues for Game-Theoretic Network Centrality

Authors: Mateusz K. Tarkowski, Piotr L. Szczepański, Tomasz P. Michalak, Paul Harrenstein, Michael Wooldridge

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Theoretical In this article, we show that these results can be extended to a much larger class of centrality measures that are based on a family of solution concepts known as semivalues. The family of semivalues includes, among others, the Shapley value and the Banzhaf index. To this end, we present a generic framework for defining game-theoretic network centralities and prove that all centrality measures that can be expressed in this framework are computable in polynomial time. Using our framework, we present a number of new and polynomial-time computable game-theoretic centrality measures.
Researcher Affiliation Collaboration Mateusz K. Tarkowski EMAIL Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford OX1 3QD, United Kingdom Piotr L. Szczepa nski EMAIL Nykredit / BEC Poland 00-113 Warsaw, Poland
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1: (SEMI) The semivalue-based centrality Algorithm 2: General Banzhaf Centrality Algorithm 3: The parametrised degree centrality Algorithm 4: Dijkstra algorithm for computing distance and counting shortest paths Algorithm 5: The parametrised betweenness centrality Algorithm 6: The parametrised closeness centrality
Open Source Code No The paper does not explicitly state that source code for the described methodology is being released, nor does it provide a direct link to a code repository. A website "www.game-theoretic-centrality.com" is mentioned in a footnote for a broader overview of applications, but not for code.
Open Datasets No The paper uses illustrative examples of networks (e.g., "Figure 1: A sample unweighted network of 5 nodes", "Figure 2: A graph representing a delivery network"), but does not refer to any specific publicly available or open datasets with concrete access information (links, DOIs, citations).
Dataset Splits No The paper is theoretical and does not perform experiments on specific datasets requiring training, validation, or test splits. Therefore, no dataset split information is provided.
Hardware Specification No The paper focuses on theoretical computational analysis and algorithms. It does not describe any experimental setup involving specific hardware components like GPUs, CPUs, or other computational resources.
Software Dependencies No The paper discusses algorithms (e.g., BFS, Dijkstra) but does not specify any software libraries, frameworks, or solvers with version numbers that would be necessary for reproduction.
Experiment Setup No The paper is theoretical, presenting frameworks and algorithms for computational analysis. It does not describe empirical experiments with specific hyperparameters, training configurations, or system-level settings.