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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

Most previous work on influence maximization in social networks is limited to the non-adaptive setting in which the marketer is supposed to select all of the seed users, to give free samples or discounts to, up front. A disadvantage of this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Sharan Vaswani , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

Influence Maximization (IM) has been extensively studied in network science, which attempts to find a subset of users to maximize the influence spread. A new variant of IM, Fair Influence Maximization (FIM), which primarily enhances the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Kaicong Ma , Xinxiang Xu , Haipeng Yang , Renzhi Cao , Lei 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

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

User recommendation systems enhance user engagement by encouraging users to act as inviters to interact with other users (invitees), potentially fostering information propagation. Conventional recommendation methods typically focus on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Hongru Hou , Jiachen Sun , Wenqing Lin , Wendong Bi , Xiangrong Wang , Deqing Yang

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

Traditional viral marketing problems aim at selecting a subset of seed users for one single product to maximize its awareness in social networks. However, in real scenarios, multiple products can be promoted in social networks at the same…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Jiawei Zhang , Senzhang Wang , Qianyi Zhan , Philip S. Yu

Given a social network with diffusion probabilities as edge weights and an integer k, which k nodes should be chosen for initial injection of information to maximize influence in the network? This problem is known as Target Set Selection in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Suman Banerjee , Mamata Jenamani , Dilip Kumar Pratihar

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

We study the problem of online influence maximization in social networks. In this problem, a learner aims to identify the set of "best influencers" in a network by interacting with it, i.e., repeatedly selecting seed nodes and observing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Qingyun Wu , Zhige Li , Huazheng Wang , Wei Chen , Hongning Wang

The problem of Profit Maximization asks to choose a limited number of influential users from a given social network such that the initial activation of these users maximizes the profit earned at the end of the diffusion process. This…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Poonam Sharma , Suman Banerjee

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 this survey, we offer an extensive overview of the Online Influence Maximization (IM) problem by covering both theoretical aspects and practical applications. For the integrity of the article and because the online algorithm takes an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Jianxiong Guo

In this paper, we address the important issue of uncertainty in the edge influence probability estimates for the well studied influence maximization problem --- the task of finding $k$ seed nodes in a social network to maximize the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Wei Chen , Tian Lin , Zihan Tan , Mingfei Zhao , Xuren Zhou

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

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 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

The diffusion of information, norms, and practices across a social network can be initiated by compelling a small number of seed individuals to adopt first. Strategies proposed in previous work either assume full network information or…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-02-09 Jiamin Ou , Vincent Buskens , Arnout Van De Rijt , Debabrata Panja

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
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