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We consider an online influence maximization problem in which a decision maker selects a node among a large number of possibilities and places a piece of information at the node. The node transmits the information to some others that are in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Julia Olkhovskaya , Gergely Neu , Gábor Lugosi

Influence maximization, the fundamental of viral marketing, aims to find top-$K$ seed nodes maximizing influence spread under certain spreading models. In this paper, we study influence maximization from a game perspective. We propose a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Yu Zhang , Yan Zhang

In this paper, we tackle a challenging problem inherent in a series of applications: tracking the influential nodes in dynamic networks. Specifically, we model a dynamic network as a stream of edge weight updates. This general model…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Yu Yang , Zhefeng Wang , Jian Pei , Enhong Chen

Online social networks have become an important platform for people to communicate, share knowledge and disseminate information. Given the widespread usage of social media, individuals' ideas, preferences and behavior are often influenced…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Hui Li , Susu Yang , Mengting Xu , Sourav S Bhowmick , Jiangtao Cui

The classic influence maximization problem finds a limited number of influential seed users in a social network such that the expected number of influenced users in the network, following an influence cascade model, is maximized. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Kaivalya Rawal , Arijit Khan

The asynchronous rumor algorithm spreading propagates a piece of information, the so-called rumor, in a network. Starting with a single informed node, each node is associated with an exponential time clock with rate $1$ and calls a random…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Ali Pourmiri , Bernard Mans

Given a network represented by a weighted directed graph G, we consider the problem of finding a bounded cost set of nodes S such that the influence spreading from S in G, within a given time bound, is as large as possible. The dynamic that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Ferdinando Cicalese , Gennaro Cordasco , Luisa Gargano , Martin Milanic , Joseph Peters , Ugo Vaccaro

Influence maximization (IM) is the task of finding the most important nodes in order to maximize the spread of influence or information on a network. This task is typically studied on static or temporal networks where the complete topology…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Eric Yanchenko , Tsuyoshi Murata , Petter Holme

Influence overlap is a universal phenomenon in influence spreading for social networks. In this paper, we argue that the redundant influence generated by influence overlap cause negative effect for maximizing spreading influence. Firstly,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Ning Wang , Zi-Yi Wang , Jian-Guo Liu , Jing-Ti Han

Influence Maximization (IM) seeks to identify a small set of seed nodes in a social network to maximize expected information spread under a diffusion model. While community-based approaches improve scalability by exploiting modular…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Eliot W. Robson , Abhishek K. Umrawal

Influence maximization (IM) is the problem of finding for a given $s\geq 1$ a set $S$ of $|S|=s$ nodes in a network with maximum influence. With stochastic diffusion models, the influence of a set $S$ of seed nodes is defined as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Gal Sadeh , Edith Cohen , Haim Kaplan

In recent years, epidemic modeling in complex networks has found many applications, including modeling of information or gossip spread in online social networks, modeling of malware spread in communication networks, and the most recent…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Aybike Şimşek

Distributed diffusion is a powerful algorithm for multi-task state estimation which enables networked agents to interact with neighbors to process input data and diffuse information across the network. Compared to a centralized approach,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-03-27 Jiani Li , Xenofon Koutsoukos

The influence maximization is the problem of finding a set of social network users, called influencers, that can trigger a large cascade of propagation. Influencers are very beneficial to make a marketing campaign goes viral through social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Siwar Jendoubi , Arnaud Martin

A social network (SN) is a social structure consisting of a group representing the interaction between them. SNs have recently been widely used and, subsequently, have become suitable and popular platforms for product promotion and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Saeid Ghafouri , Seyed Hossein Khasteh , Seyed Omid Azarkasb

The problem of finding optimal set of users for influencing others in the social network has been widely studied. Because it is NP-hard, some heuristics were proposed to find sub-optimal solutions. Still, one of the commonly used assumption…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-24 Radosław Michalski , Tomasz Kajdanowicz , Piotr Bródka , Przemysław Kazienko

Influence maximization in networks is a central problem in machine learning and causal inference, where an intervention on a subset of individuals triggers a diffusion process through the network. Existing approaches typically optimize…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-13 Renjie Cao , Zhuoxin Yan , Xinyan Su , Zhiheng Zhang

As an important type of dynamics on complex networks, spreading is widely used to model many real processes such as the epidemic contagion and information propagation. One of the most significant research questions in spreading is to rank…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-12-18 Ye Sun , Long Ma , An Zeng , Wen-Xu Wang

We address the problem of influence maximization when the social network is accompanied by diffusion cascades. In prior works, such information is used to compute influence probabilities, which is utilized by stochastic diffusion models in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-23 George Panagopoulos , Fragkiskos D. Malliaros , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Influence diffusion and influence maximization in large-scale online social networks (OSNs) have been extensively studied, because of their impacts on enabling effective online viral marketing. Existing studies focus on social networks with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-12-04 Yanhua Li , Wei Chen , Yajun Wang , Zhi-Li Zhang