Jump to Content
Naty Leiser

Naty Leiser

Authored Publications
Google Publications
Other Publications
Sort By
  • Title
  • Title, descending
  • Year
  • Year, descending
    Suggesting (More) Friends Using the Implicit Social Graph
    Maayan Roth
    Tzvika Barenholz
    Assaf Ben-David
    Guy Flysher
    Ilan Horn
    Ari Leichtberg
    Ron Merom
    International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) (2011)
    Preview abstract Although users of online communication tools rarely categorize their contacts into groups such as "family", "co-workers", or "jogging buddies", they nonetheless implicitly cluster contacts, by virtue of their interactions with them, forming implicit groups. In this paper, we describe the implicit social graph which is formed by users' interactions with contacts and groups of contacts, and which is distinct from explicit social graphs in which users explicitly add other individuals as their "friends". We introduce an interaction-based metric for estimating a user's affinity to his contacts and groups. We then describe a novel friend suggestion algorithm that uses a user's implicit social graph to generate a friend group, given a small seed set of contacts which the user has already labeled as friends. We show experimental results that demonstrate the importance of both implicit group relationships and interaction-based affinity ranking in suggesting friends. Finally, we discuss two applications of the Friend Suggest algorithm that have been released as Gmail features. View details
    Suggesting Friends Using the Implicit Social Graph
    Maayan Roth
    Assaf Ben-David
    Guy Flysher
    Ilan Horn
    Ari Leichtberg
    Ron Merom
    Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (2010)
    Preview abstract Although users of online communication tools rarely categorize their contacts into groups such as "family", "co-workers", or "jogging buddies", they nonetheless implicitly cluster contacts, by virtue of their interactions with them, forming implicit groups. In this paper, we describe the implicit social graph which is formed by users' interactions with contacts and groups of contacts, and which is distinct from explicit social graphs in which users explicitly add other individuals as their "friends". We introduce an interaction-based metric for estimating a user's affinity to his contacts and groups. We then describe a novel friend suggestion algorithm that uses a user's implicit social graph to generate a friend group, given a small seed set of contacts which the user has already labeled as friends. We show experimental results that demonstrate the importance of both implicit group relationships and interaction-based affinity ranking in suggesting friends. Finally, we discuss two applications of the Friend Suggest algorithm that have been released as Gmail Labs features. View details
    Pregel: a system for large-scale graph processing
    Grzegorz Malewicz
    Matthew H. Austern
    James C. Dehnert
    Ilan Horn
    Grzegorz Czajkowski
    Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Management of data, ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 135-146
    Preview
    Pregel: A System for Large-Scale Graph Processing
    Grzegorz Malewicz
    Matthew H. Austern
    James C. Dehnert
    Ilan Horn
    Grzegorz Czajkowski
    28th ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (2009), pp. 6-6
    Preview
    No Results Found