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The whole frame of interconnections in complex networks hinges on a specific set of structural nodes, much smaller than the total size, which, if activated, would cause the spread of information to the whole network [1]; or, if immunized,…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-08-27 Flaviano Morone , Hernan A. Makse

Influence Maximization Problem (IMP) is selecting a seed set of nodes in the social network to spread the influence as widely as possible. It has many applications in multiple domains, e.g., viral marketing is frequently used for new…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Xinxun Zeng , Shiqi Zhang , Bo Tang

The problem of maximizing information diffusion, given a certain budget expressed in terms of the number of seed nodes, is an important topic in social networks research. Existing literature focuses on single phase diffusion where all seed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-26 Swapnil Dhamal , Prabuchandran K. J. , Y. Narahari

We consider the *adaptive influence maximization problem*: given a network and a budget $k$, iteratively select $k$ seeds in the network to maximize the expected number of adopters. In the *full-adoption feedback model*, after selecting…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Wei Chen , Binghui Peng , Grant Schoenebeck , Biaoshuai Tao

Social connections are conduits through which individuals communicate, information propagates, and diseases spread. Identifying individuals who are more likely to adopt ideas and spread them is essential in order to develop effective…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Vedran Sekara , Ivan Dotu , Manuel Cebrian , Esteban Moro , Manuel Garcia-Herranz

Given a social network, where each user is associated with a selection cost, the problem of \textsc{Budgeted Influence Maximization} (\emph{BIM Problem} in short) asks to choose a subset of them (known as seed users) within an allocated…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Suman Banerjee , Bithika Pal

We study the optimal control problem of allocating campaigning resources over the campaign duration and degree classes in a social network. Information diffusion is modeled as a Susceptible-Infected epidemic and direct recruitment of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Kundan Kandhway , Joy Kuri

Influence maximization (IM) is the problem of finding a seed vertex set that maximizes the expected number of vertices influenced under a given diffusion model. Due to the NP-Hardness of finding an optimal seed set, approximation algorithms…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Gokhan Gokturk , Kamer Kaya

The problem of Profit Maximization asks to choose a limited number of influential users from a given social network such that the initial activation of these users maximizes the profit earned at the end of the diffusion process. This…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Poonam Sharma , Suman Banerjee

The influence maximization (IM) problem involves identifying a set of key individuals in a social network who can maximize the spread of influence through their network connections. With the advent of geometric deep learning on graphs,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yunming Hui , Shihan Wang , Melisachew Wudage Chekol , Stevan Rudinac , Inez Maria Zwetsloot

Information propagation on networks is a central theme in social, behavioral, and economic sciences, with important theoretical and practical implications, such as the influence maximization problem for viral marketing. Here, we consider a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Yu Tian , Renaud Lambiotte

We consider influence maximization (IM) in social networks, which is the problem of maximizing the number of users that become aware of a product by selecting a set of "seed" users to expose the product to. While prior work assumes a known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Sharan Vaswani , Branislav Kveton , Zheng Wen , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Laks Lakshmanan , Mark Schmidt

In this paper, we consider the problem of maximizing the spread of influence through a social network. Given a graph with a threshold value~$thr(v)$ attached to each vertex~$v$, the spread of influence is modeled as follows: A vertex~$v$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-19 Cristina Bazgan , Morgan Chopin , André Nichterlein , Florian Sikora

We study a combinatorial model of the spread of influence in networks that generalizes existing schemata recently proposed in the literature. In our model, agents change behaviors/opinions on the basis of information collected from their…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Luisa Gargano , Pavol Hell , Joseph G. Peters , Ugo Vaccaro

Influence maximization (IM) is the problem of identifying a limited number of initial influential users within a social network to maximize the number of influenced users. However, previous research has mostly focused on individual…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Zirui Yuan , Minglai Shao , Zhiqian Chen

Motivated by applications such as viral marketing, the problem of influence maximization (IM) has been extensively studied in the literature. The goal is to select a small number of users to adopt an item such that it results in a large…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Prithu Banerjee , Wei Chen , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

Information spread through social networks is ubiquitous. Influence maximiza- tion (IM) algorithms aim to identify individuals who will generate the greatest spread through the social network if provided with information, and have been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-16 Octavio Mesner , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

Given a network and a set of vertices called seeds to initially inject information, influence spread is the expected number of vertices that eventually receive the information under a certain stochastic model of information propagation.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Kengo Nakamura , Masaaki Nishino

Influence Maximization is an extensively-studied problem that targets at selecting a set of initial seed nodes in the Online Social Networks (OSNs) to spread the influence as widely as possible. However, it remains an open challenge to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Jing Tang , Xueyan Tang , Junsong Yuan

Influence propagation has been the subject of extensive study due to its important role in social networks, epidemiology, and many other areas. Understanding propagation mechanisms is critical to control the spread of fake news or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Vinicius Ferreira , Artur Pessoa , Thibaut Vidal