Inferring diffusion networks from traces of cascades has been intensively studied to gain a better understanding of information diffusion. Traditional methods normally formulate a generative model to find the network that can generate the cascades with the maximum likelihood. The performance of such methods largely depends on sufficient cascades spreading in the network. In many real-world scen...

Thanks to Christopher Gibbons and C. J. Lee for help with the simulation code, model validation, and data management. Thanks to Wenpin Tsai and three anonymous reviewers whose input significantly improved this article.

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