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The increasing prominence of temporal networks in online social platforms and dynamic communication systems has made influence maximization a critical research area. Various diffusion models have been proposed to capture the spread of…

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The study of spreading processes often analyzes networks at different resolutions, e.g., at the level of individuals or countries, but it is not always clear how properties at one resolution can carry over to another. Accordingly, in this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-12-04 Baike She , Matthew Hale

Understanding how information propagates in real-life complex networks yields a better understanding of dynamic processes such as misinformation or epidemic spreading. The recently introduced branch of machine learning methods for learning…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Sebastian Mežnar , Nada Lavrač , Blaž Škrlj

Understanding the dissemination of diseases, information, and behavior stands as a paramount research challenge in contemporary network and complex systems science. The COVID-19 pandemic and the proliferation of misinformation are relevant…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-02-26 Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda , Alberto Aleta , Yamir Moreno

Disease, opinions, ideas, gossip, etc. all spread on social networks. How these networks are connected (the network structure) influences the dynamics of the spreading processes. By investigating these relationships one gains understanding…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2017-06-29 Petter Holme

The rapid diffusion of information and the adoption of social behaviors are of critical importance in situations as diverse as collective actions, pandemic prevention, or advertising and marketing. Although the dynamics of large cascades…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-12-30 Hao Peng , Azadeh Nematzadeh , Daniel M. Romero , Emilio Ferrara

Spreading processes have been largely studied in the literature, both analytically and by means of large-scale numerical simulations. These processes mainly include the propagation of diseases, rumors and information on top of a given…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-05-10 Guilherme Ferraz de Arruda , Francisco A. Rodrigues , Yamir Moreno

Recent empirical studies have confirmed the key roles of complex contagion mechanisms such as memory, social reinforcement, and decay effects in information diffusion and behaviour spreading. Inspired by this fact, we here propose a new…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-08-20 Pengbi Cui , Ming Tang , Zhi-Xi Wu

Social networks play a fundamental role in the diffusion of information. However, there are two different ways of how information reaches a person in a network. Information reaches us through connections in our social networks, as well as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-06-08 Seth A. Myers , Chenguang Zhu , Jure Leskovec

Diffusion and propagation of information, influence and diseases take place over increasingly larger networks. We observe when a node copies information, makes a decision or becomes infected but networks are often hidden or unobserved.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-05-09 Manuel Gomez Rodriguez , Bernhard Schölkopf

Epidemics-inspired techniques have received huge attention in recent years from the distributed systems and networking communities. These algorithms and protocols rely on probabilistic message replication and redundancy to ensure reliable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-11-20 Salvatore Scellato , Cecilia Mascolo , Mirco Musolesi , Vito Latora

Detecting spreading outbreaks in social networks with sensors is of great significance in applications. Inspired by the formation mechanism of human's physical sensations to external stimuli, we propose a new method to detect the influence…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-02-08 Sen Pei , Shaoting Tang , Zhiming Zheng

We introduce a model for predicting the diffusion of content information on social media. When propagation is usually modeled on discrete graph structures, we introduce here a continuous diffusion model, where nodes in a diffusion cascade…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-04 Cédric Lagnier , Simon Bourigault , Sylvain Lamprier , Ludovic Denoyer , Patrick Gallinari

The spread of traffic jams in urban networks has long been viewed as a complex spatio-temporal phenomenon that often requires computationally intensive microscopic models for analysis purposes. In this study, we present a framework to…

How does network structure affect diffusion? Recent studies suggest that the answer depends on the type of contagion. Complex contagions, unlike infectious diseases (simple contagions), are affected by social reinforcement and homophily.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Lilian Weng , Filippo Menczer , Yong-Yeol Ahn

Only a fast and global transformation towards decarbonization and sustainability can keep the Earth in a civilization-friendly state. As hotspots for (green) innovation and experimentation, cities could play an important role in this…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-04-12 Niklas H. Kitzmann , Pawel Romanczuk , Jonathan F. Donges

Diffusion models, a powerful and universal generative AI technology, have achieved tremendous success in computer vision, audio, reinforcement learning, and computational biology. In these applications, diffusion models provide flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-12 Minshuo Chen , Song Mei , Jianqing Fan , Mengdi Wang

Network cascade refers to diffusion processes in which outcome changes within part of an interconnected population trigger a sequence of changes across the entire network. These cascades are governed by underlying diffusion networks, which…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Yubai Yuan , Siyu Huang , Abdul Basit Adeel

Understanding how contagions (information, infections, etc) are spread on complex networks is important both from practical as well as theoretical point of view. Considerable work has been done in this regard in the past decade or so.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-05 Afshin Montakhab , Pouya Manshour

Studying information diffusion in SNS (Social Networks Service) has remarkable significance in both academia and industry. Theoretically, it boosts the development of other subjects such as statistics, sociology, and data mining.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Huacheng Li , Chunhe Xia , Tianbo Wang , Sheng Wen , Chao Chen , Yang Xiang