Supplementary Material (Learning to Select Exogenous Events for Marked Temporal Point Process) 2 A.1 Positive potential impacts

A.1 Positive potential impacts At the very outset, our problem aims at selecting exogenous events from a stream of events. Such a problem has a wide variety of applications in real life, Preventing misinformation flow. Misinformation is easily spread in social networks, which often has a negative impact on people's social life. For such a information cascade like fake news/rumor, our algorithm may be useful. While making marketing strategy, we can use our approach to get to know which user is more sensitive to exogenous events.