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Given a graph G, a budget k and a misinformation seed set S, Influence Minimization (IMIN) via node blocking aims to find a set of k nodes to be blocked such that the expected spread of S is minimized. This problem finds important…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Jinghao Wang , Yanping Wu , Xiaoyang Wang , Ying Zhang , Lu Qin , Wenjie Zhang , Xuemin Lin

Components connected over a network influence each other and interact in various ways. Examples of such systems are networks of computing nodes, which the nodes interact by exchanging workload, for instance, for load balancing purposes. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-30 Ehsan Siavashi , Mahshid Rahnamay-Naeini

In the influence maximization (IM) problem, we are given a social network and a budget $k$, and we look for a set of $k$ nodes in the network, called seeds, that maximize the expected number of nodes that are reached by an influence cascade…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Gianlorenzo D'Angelo , Debashmita Poddar , Cosimo Vinci

Influence Maximization (IM) aims to find a given number of "seed" vertices that can effectively maximize the expected spread under a given diffusion model. Due to the NP-Hardness of finding an optimal seed set, approximation algorithms are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Gökhan Göktürk , Kamer Kaya

Influence maximization is the task of finding a set of seed nodes in a social network such that the influence spread of these seed nodes based on certain influence diffusion model is maximized. Topic-aware influence diffusion models have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-24 Wei Chen , Tian Lin , Cheng Yang

The problem of influence maximization, i.e., finding the set of nodes having maximal influence on a network, is of great importance for several applications. In the past two decades, many heuristic metrics to spot influencers have been…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-06-07 Siddharth Patwardhan , Filippo Radicchi , Santo Fortunato

Activity maximization is a task of seeking a small subset of users in a given social network that makes the expected total activity benefit maximized. This is a generalization of many real applications. In this paper, we extend activity…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Jianxiong Guo , Tiantian Chen , Weili Wu

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

We elaborate on a linear time implementation of the Collective Influence (CI) algorithm introduced by Morone, Makse, Nature 524, 65 (2015) to find the minimal set of influencers in a network via optimal percolation. We show that the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-29 Flaviano Morone , Byungjoon Min , Lin Bo , Romain Mari , Hernan A. Makse

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

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

Influence maximization in social networks plays a vital role in applications such as viral marketing, epidemiology, product recommendation, opinion mining, and counter-terrorism. A common approach identifies seed nodes by first detecting…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Motaz Ben Hassine

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

Adversarial Influence Blocking Maximization (AIBM) aims to select a set of positive seed nodes that propagate synchronously with the known negative seed nodes to counteract their negative influence. Time factor plays a particularly vital…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jilong Shi , Qiangpeng Fang , Xiaobin Rui , Jian Zhang , Zhixiao Wang

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

We present the Social Influence Game (SIG), a framework for modeling adversarial persuasion in social networks with an arbitrary number of competing players. Our goal is to provide a tractable and interpretable model of contested influence…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Renukanandan Tumu , Cristian Ioan Vasile , Victor Preciado , Rahul Mangharam

In social networks, people influence each other through social links, which can be represented as propagation among nodes in graphs. Influence minimization (IMIN) is the problem of manipulating the structures of an input graph (e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Junghun Lee , Hyunju Kim , Fanchen Bu , Jihoon Ko , Kijung Shin

We study the propagation of comparative ideas or items in social networks. A full characterization for submodularity in the comparative independent cascade (Com-IC) model of two-idea cascade is given, for competing ideas and complementary…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Wei Chen , Hanrui Zhang

Influence Maximization (IM), that seeks a small set of key users who spread the influence widely into the network, is a core problem in multiple domains. It finds applications in viral marketing, epidemic control, and assessing cascading…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-23 Hung T. Nguyen , My T. Thai , Thang N. Dinh

We consider influence maximization (IM) in social networks, which is the problem of maximizing the number of users that become aware of a product by selecting a set of "seed" users to expose the product to. While prior work assumes a known…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Sharan Vaswani , Branislav Kveton , Zheng Wen , Mohammad Ghavamzadeh , Laks Lakshmanan , Mark Schmidt