Leadership Inference

Leadership is a process of individuals (leaders) who influence a group to achieve collective goals. In nature, leadership can be viewed as a process of initiation of coordinated activity. In the task of leadership inference, the main goals are to infer leaders, relationships between leaders and followers, as well as the process of leaders use to influence the group to achieve collective decisions. In machine learning, leadership inference can be viewed as a problem of finding a latent multi-agent system that governs behaviors of group of individuals from data.