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Influence Maximization (IM) in temporal graphs focuses on identifying influential "seeds" that are pivotal for maximizing network expansion. We advocate defining these seeds through Influence Propagation Paths (IPPs), which is essential for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Laixin Xie , Ying Zhang , Xiyuan Wang , Shiyi Liu , Shenghan Gao , Xingxing Xing , Wei Wan , Haipeng Zhang , Quan Li

Maximizing influences in complex networks is a practically important but computationally challenging task for social network analysis, due to its NP- hard nature. Most current approximation or heuristic methods either require tremendous…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Changan Liu , Changjun Fan , Zhongzhi Zhang

Aiming at selecting a small subset of nodes with maximum influence on networks, the Influence Maximization (IM) problem has been extensively studied. Since it is #P-hard to compute the influence spread given a seed set, the state-of-the-art…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Tiantian Chen , Siwen Yan , Jianxiong Guo , Weili Wu

This survey presents the main results achieved for the influence maximization problem in social networks. This problem is well studied in the literature and, thanks to its recent applications, some of which currently deployed on the field,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Giuseppe De Nittis , Nicola Gatti

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

The Influence Maximization problem under the Independent Cascade model (IC) is considered. The problem asks for a minimal set of vertices to serve as "seed set" from which a maximum influence propagation is expected. New seed-set selection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Faisal N. Abu-Khzam , Ghinwa Bou Matar , Sergio Thoumi

Online influence maximization aims to maximize the influence spread of a content in a social network with unknown network model by selecting a few seed nodes. Recent studies followed a non-adaptive setting, where the seed nodes are selected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Kaixuan Huang , Yu Wu , Xuezhou Zhang , Shenyinying Tu , Qingyun Wu , Mengdi Wang , Huazheng Wang

Influence propagation in networks has enjoyed fruitful applications and has been extensively studied in literature. However, only very limited preliminary studies tackled the challenges in handling highly dynamic changes in real networks.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Yu Yang , Zhefeng Wang , Tianyuan Jin , Jian Pei , Enhong Chen

In recent years, social networking platforms have gained significant popularity among the masses like connecting with people and propagating ones thoughts and opinions. This has opened the door to user-specific advertisements and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Aaryan Gupta , Inder Khatri , Arjun Choudhry , Pranav Chandhok , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma , Mukesh Prasad

Influence maximization is a well-studied problem that asks for a small set of influential users from a social network, such that by targeting them as early adopters, the expected total adoption through influence cascades over the network is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-11-06 Wei Lu , Wei Chen , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

We propose a distributionally robust model for the influence maximization problem. Unlike the classic independent cascade model \citep{kempe2003maximizing}, this model's diffusion process is adversarially adapted to the choice of seed set.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Louis Chen , Divya Padmanabhan , Chee Chin Lim , Karthik Natarajan

Influence maximization in complex networks, i.e., maximizing the size of influenced nodes via selecting K seed nodes for a given spreading process, has attracted great attention in recent years. However, the influence maximization problem…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Ming Xie , Xiu-Xiu Zhan , Chuang Liu , Zi-Ke Zhang

Influence maximization (IM) aims to identify a small number of influential individuals to maximize the information spread and finds applications in various fields. It was first introduced in the context of viral marketing, where a company…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Shiqi Zhang , Yiqian Huang , Jiachen Sun , Wenqing Lin , Xiaokui Xiao , Bo Tang

The Influence Maximization (IM) problem is a well-known NP-hard combinatorial problem over graphs whose goal is to find the set of nodes in a network that spreads influence at most. Among the various methods for solving the IM problem,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Stefano Genetti , Eros Ribaga , Elia Cunegatti , Quintino Francesco Lotito , Giovanni Iacca

The well-known influence maximization problem aims at maximizing the influence of one information cascade in a social network by selecting appropriate seed users prior to the diffusion process. In its adaptive version, additional seed users…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-03-30 Guangmo Tong , Ruiqi Wang , Zheng Dong , Xiang Li

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

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

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

A widely studied process of influence diffusion in social networks posits that the dynamics of influence diffusion evolves as follows: Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, representing the network, initially \emph{only} the members of a given…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-22 Gennaro Cordasco , Luisa Gargano , Adele A. Rescigno , Ugo Vaccaro

Influence Maximization (IM), which aims to select a set of users from a social network to maximize the expected number of influenced users, has recently received significant attention for mass communication and commercial marketing.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Taotao Cai , Qi Lei , Quan Z. Sheng , Shuiqiao Yang , Jian Yang , Wei Emma Zhang