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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

Influence Maximization (IM) is the task of determining k optimal influential nodes in a social network to maximize the influence spread using a propagation model. IM is a prominent problem for viral marketing, and helps significantly in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Inder Khatri , Arjun Choudhry , Aryaman Rao , Aryan Tyagi , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma , Mukesh Prasad

Distances in a network capture relations between nodes and are the basis of centrality, similarity, and influence measures. Often, however, the relevance of a node $u$ to a node $v$ is more precisely measured not by the magnitude of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-25 Eliav Buchnik , Edith Cohen

Community partition is an important problem in many areas such as biology network, social network. The objective of this problem is to analyse the relationships among data via the network topology. In this paper, we consider the community…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Qiufen Ni , Jianxiong Guo , Chuanhe Huang , Weili Wu

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

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

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

Estimating cascade size and nodes' influence is a fundamental task in social, technological, and biological networks. Yet this task is extremely challenging due to the sheer size and the structural heterogeneity of networks. We investigate…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Hung T. Nguyen , Tri P. Nguyen , Tam Vu , Thang N. Dinh

Information diffusion in networks has received a lot of recent attention. Most previous work addresses the influence maximization problem of selecting an appropriate set of seed nodes to initiate the diffusion process so that the largest…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Konstantinos Liontis , Evaggelia Pitoura

Social networks have enabled user-specific advertisements and recommendations on their platforms, which puts a significant focus on Influence Maximisation (IM) for target advertising and related tasks. The aim is to identify nodes in the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Inder Khatri , Aaryan Gupta , Arjun Choudhry , Aryan Tyagi , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma , Mukesh Prasad

The problem of selecting an optimal seed set to maximise influence in networks has been a subject of intense research in recent years. However, despite numerous works addressing this area, it remains a topic that requires further…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Michał Czuba , Piotr Bródka

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

Influence maximization is key topic in data mining, with broad applications in social network analysis and viral marketing. In recent years, researchers have increasingly turned to machine learning techniques to address this problem. They…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Asela Hevapathige , Qing Wang , Ahad N. Zehmakan

The identification of which nodes are optimal seeds for spreading processes on a network is a non-trivial problem that has attracted much interest recently. While activity has mostly focused on non-recurrent type of dynamics, here we…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-07-17 Gaël Poux-Médard , Romualdo Pastor-Satorras , Claudio Castellano

Influence Maximization problem has received significant attention in recent years due to its application in various do?mains such as product recommendation, public opinion dissemination, and disease propagation. This paper proposes a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Renquan Zhang , Xilong Qu , Qiang Zhang , Xirong Xu , Sen Pei

The Influence Maximization (IM) problem aims to find a small set of influential users to maximize their influence spread in a social network. Traditional methods rely on fixed diffusion models with known parameters, limiting their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Hongliang Qiao , Shanshan Feng , Min Zhou , Xutao Li , Yunming Ye , Fan Li , Shuo Shang , Yew-Soon Ong

In this paper, we study the Budgeted Influence Maximization with Delay Problem, for which the number of literature are limited. We propose an approximate marginal spread computation\mbox{-}based approach for solving this problem. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Suman Banerjee , Mamata Jenamani , Dilip Kumar Pratihar

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

The Influence Maximization (IM) problem aims to select a set of seed nodes within a given budget to maximize the spread of influence in a social network. However, real-world social networks have several structural inequalities, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Akrati Saxena , Harshith Kumar Yadav , Bart Rutten , Shashi Shekhar Jha

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