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Influence Maximization (IM) is a famous topic in mobile networks and social computing, which aims at finding a small subset of users to maximize the influence spread through online information cascade. Recently, some careful researchers…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Jianxiong Guo , Qiufen Ni , Weili Wu , Ding-Zhu Du

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 Maximization (IM) aims at finding the most influential users in a social network, i. e., users who maximize the spread of an opinion within a certain propagation model. Previous work investigated the correlation between influence…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Mehmet Simsek , Henning Meyerhenke

Influence maximization is the problem of finding a set of influential users in a social network such that the expected spread of influence under a certain propagation model is maximized. Much of the previous work has neglected the important…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Wei Lu , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

Influence Maximization (IM) is a pivotal concept in social network analysis, involving the identification of influential nodes within a network to maximize the number of influenced nodes, and has a wide variety of applications that range…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Matteo Bergamaschi , Sara Venturini , Francesco Tudisco , Francesco Rinaldi

In social online platforms, identifying influential seed users to maximize influence spread is a crucial as it can greatly diminish the cost and efforts required for information dissemination. While effective, traditional methods for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Huyen Nguyen , Hieu Dam , Nguyen Do , Cong Tran , Cuong Pham

Influence maximization is the problem of finding the set of nodes of a network that maximizes the size of the outbreak of a spreading process occurring on the network. Solutions to this problem are important for strategic decisions in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2019-10-23 Sirag Erkol , Claudio Castellano , Filippo Radicchi

Influence maximization (IM) aims at maximizing the spread of influence by offering discounts to influential users (called seeding). In many applications, due to user's privacy concern, overwhelming network scale etc., it is hard to target…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Chen Feng , Luoyi Fu , Bo Jiang , Haisong Zhang , Xinbing Wang , Feilong Tang , Guihai Chen

Influence maximization (IM) is a fundamental problem in complex network analysis, with a wide range of real-world applications. To date, existing approaches to influential node identification in IM have predominantly relied on standard…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Qianshi Wang , Xilong Qu , Wenbin Pei , Nan Li , Qiang Zhang

For the purpose of maximizing the spread of influence caused by a certain small number k of nodes in a social network, we are asked to find a k-subset of nodes (i.e., a seed set) with the best capacity to influence the nodes not in it. This…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Enqiang Zhu , Haosen Wang , Yu Zhang , Kai Zhang , Chanjuan Liu

Many real-world applications based on spreading processes in complex networks aim to deliver information to specific target nodes. However, it remains challenging to optimally select a set of spreaders to initiate the spreading process. In…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-08-15 Renquan Zhang , Xiaolin Wang , Sen Pei

Online influence maximization has attracted much attention as a way to maximize influence spread through a social network while learning the values of unknown network parameters. Most previous works focus on single-item diffusion. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Jinhang Zuo , Xutong Liu , Carlee Joe-Wong , John C. S. Lui , Wei Chen

Influence maximization (IM) seeks to identify a seed set that maximizes influence within a network, with applications in areas such as viral marketing, disease control, and political campaigns. The budgeted influence maximization (BIM)…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Su-Su Zhang , Chuang Liu , Huijuan Wang , Yang Chen , Xiu-Xiu Zhan

Influence maximization aims to identify a set of influential individuals, referred to as influencers, as information sources to maximize the spread of information within networks, constituting a vital combinatorial optimization problem with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Wenfeng Shi , Tianlong Fan , Shuqi Xu , Rongmei Yang , Linyuan Lü

The Influence Maximization (IM) problem seeks to discover the set of nodes in a graph that can spread the information propagation at most. This problem is known to be NP-hard, and it is usually studied by maximizing the influence (spread)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Elia Cunegatti , Leonardo Lucio Custode , Giovanni Iacca

Viral marketing on social networks, also known as Influence Maximization (IM), aims to select k users for the promotion of a target item by maximizing the total spread of their influence. However, most previous works on IM do not explore…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Ya-Wen Teng , Yishuo Shi , Chih-Hua Tai , De-Nian Yang , Wang-Chien Lee , Ming-Syan Chen

Influence maximization, fundamental for word-of-mouth marketing and viral marketing, aims to find a set of seed nodes maximizing influence spread on social network. Early methods mainly fall into two paradigms with certain benefits and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Suqi Cheng , Hua-Wei Shen , Junming Huang , Wei Chen , Xue-Qi Cheng

Given a complex high-dimensional distribution over $\{\pm 1\}^n$, what is the best way to increase the expected number of $+1$'s by controlling the values of only a small number of variables? Such a problem is known as influence…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Zongchen Chen , Elchanan Mossel

In this paper, we study the Cost-aware Target Viral Marketing (CTVM) problem, a generalization of Influence Maximization (IM). CTVM asks for the most cost-effective users to influence the most relevant users. In contrast to the vast…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Xiang Li , J. David Smith , Thang N. Dinh , My T. Thai

Influence maximization aims to select k most-influential vertices or seeds in a network, where influence is defined by a given diffusion process. Although computing optimal seed set is NP-Hard, efficient approximation algorithms exist.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Xinyu Chen , Marco Minutoli , Jiannan Tian , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Ananth Kalyanaraman , Dingwen Tao