arXiv Machine Learning By Mingkai Liao, Zijun Zhang, Mingyang Zhou

PACIFIER: Pacing Opinion Depolarization via a Unified Graph Learning Framework

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PACIFIER is a graph‑learning framework that generates intervention sequences to reduce opinion polarization in online social networks modeled by the Friedkin‑Johnsen framework. It uses history‑aware node representations and both greedy and reinforcement‑learning strategies to score actions, supporting multiple moderation types and continuous opinions. Trained on small synthetic graphs, PACIFIER transfers effectively to large real‑world Twitter networks, outperforming baselines by up to 35.3% and achieving near‑oracle performance while being significantly faster.

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