PACIFIER: Pacing Opinion Depolarization via a Unified Graph Learning Framework

arXiv:2602.23390 · cs.SI, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-02-23 · Read on arXiv

cs.SI, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-02-23

Updated: 2026-08-27

Terminology

• Benchmark — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 13× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Ablation — 11× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• M ODERATE E XPRESSED — 11× in this paper
• M ODERATE I NTERNAL — 11× in this paper
• Accumulated Normalized Polarization — 6× in this paper
• Adjacency Matrix — 6× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Generalization — 6× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Combinatorial Optimization — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Embeddings — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Two-Echo-Chamber Instance Builder — 5× in this paper
• Alignment — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Deep Reinforcement Learning — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Polarization-aware Temporal Graph Encoder — 2× in this paper
• Representation Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AUC — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation study — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Action Space — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adaptability — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Computational overhead — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Diffusion Processes — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Distribution Shift — 1× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Elias — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Feature Extraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Q-learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• State Aliasing — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Opinion de-polarization in social networks with GNNs

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