Publications

Quantifying the Effects of Contact Tracing, Testing, and Containment Measures in the Presence of Infection Hotspots
Multiple lines of evidence at the individual and population level strongly suggest that infection hotspots, or superspreading events, …
Lars Lorch, Heiner Kremer, William Trouleau, Stratis Tsirtsis, Aron Szanto, Berned Schölkopf, Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez
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Learning Self-Exciting Temporal Point Processes Under Noisy Observations
Understanding the diffusion patterns of sequences of interdependent events is a central question for a variety of disciplines. Temporal …
William Trouleau
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A Variational Inference Approach to Learning Multivariate Wold Processes
Background: Preventive chemotherapy (PC), the large-scale administration of anthelminthics, is recommended by the World Health …
Jalal Etesami, William Trouleau, Matthias Grossglauser, Negar Kiyavash, Patrick Thiran
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Learning Hawkes Processes Under Synchronization Noise
Multivariate Hawkes processes (MHP) are widely used in a variety of fields to model the occurrence of discrete events. Prior work on …
William Trouleau, Jalal Etesami, Matthias Grossglauser, Negar Kiyavash, Patrick Thiran
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Learning Hawkes Processes from a Handful of Events
Learning the causal-interaction network of multivariate Hawkes processes is a useful task in many applications. Maximum-likelihood …
Farnood Salehi, William Trouleau, Matthias Grossglauser, Patrick Thiran
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Stochastic Optimal Control of Epidemic Processes in Networks
Most of the early work on epidemic processes focused primarily on developing models for general population dynamics rather than the …
Lars Lorch, Abir De, Samir Bhatt, William Trouleau, Utkarsh Upadhyay, Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez
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Preventive chemotherapy to control soil-transmitted helminthiasis averted more than 500 000 DALYs in 2015
Temporal point-processes are often used for mathematical modeling of sequences of discrete events with asynchronous timestamps. We …
Antonio Montresor, William Trouleau, et al
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Just one more: Modeling binge watching behavior
Easy accessibility can often lead to over-consumption, as seen in food and alcohol habits. On video on-demand (VOD) services, this has …
William Trouleau, Azin Ashkan, Weicong Ding, Brian Eriksson
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