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Influence maximization has been studied for social network analysis, such as viral marketing (advertising), rumor prevention, and opinion leader identification. However, most studies neglect the interplay between influence spread, cost…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Mingyang Feng , Qi Zhao , Shan He , Yuhui Shi

Given the popularity of the viral marketing campaign in online social networks, finding an effective method to identify a set of most influential nodes so to compete well with other viral marketing competitors is of upmost importance. We…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-03 Yishi Lin , John C. S. Lui

The typical algorithmic problem in viral marketing aims to identify a set of influential users in a social network, who, when convinced to adopt a product, shall influence other users in the network and trigger a large cascade of adoptions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-17 Nan Du , Yingyu Liang , Maria Florina Balcan , Le Song

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

Influence maximization (IM) has garnered a lot of attention in the literature owing to applications such as viral marketing and infection containment. It aims to select a small number of seed users to adopt an item such that adoption…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Prithu Banerjee , Wei Chen , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

Influence Maximization (IM) aims to maximize the number of people that become aware of a product by finding the `best' set of `seed' users to initiate the product advertisement. Unlike prior arts on static social networks containing fixed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Xudong Wu , Luoyi Fu , Zixin Zhang , Jingfan Meng , Xinbing Wang , Guihai Chen

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

Influence maximization (IM), which selects a set of $k$ users (called seeds) to maximize the influence spread over a social network, is a fundamental problem in a wide range of applications such as viral marketing and network monitoring.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-30 Yanhao Wang , Qi Fan , Yuchen Li , Kian-Lee Tan

In this paper, we propose the amphibious influence maximization (AIM) model that combines traditional marketing via content providers and viral marketing to consumers in social networks in a single framework. In AIM, a set of content…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Wei Chen , Fu Li , Tian Lin , Aviad Rubinstein

In many real-world scenarios, an individual's local social network carries significant influence over the opinions they form and subsequently propagate. In this paper, we propose a novel diffusion model -- the Pressure Threshold model (PT)…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Curt Stutsman , Eliot W. Robson , Abhishek K. Umrawal

In this paper we consider an extension of the well-known Influence Maximization Problem in a social network which deals with finding a set of k nodes to initiate a diffusion process so that the total number of influenced nodes at the end of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-19 Kübra Tanınmış , Necati Aras , İ. K. Altınel

Influence maximization(IM) problem is to find a seed set in a social network which achieves the maximal influence spread. This problem plays an important role in viral marketing. Numerous models have been proposed to solve this problem.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-10-22 Yaxuan Wang , Hongzhi Wang , Jianzhong Li

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

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

In the context of influence propagation in a social graph, we can identify three orthogonal dimensions - the number of seed nodes activated at the beginning (known as budget), the expected number of activated nodes at the end of the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-11-08 Amit Goyal , Francesco Bonchi , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan , Suresh Venkatasubramanian

Influence Maximization (IM) seeks to identify a small set of seed nodes in a social network to maximize expected information spread under a diffusion model. While community-based approaches improve scalability by exploiting modular…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Eliot W. Robson , Abhishek K. Umrawal

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), 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

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

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