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Influence maximization (IM) is a representative and classic problem that has been studied extensively before. The most important application derived from the IM problem is viral marketing. Take us as a promoter, we want to get benefits from…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Jianxiong Guo , Yapu Zhang , Weili Wu

The goal of opinion maximization is to maximize the positive view towards a product, an ideology or any entity among the individuals in social networks. So far, opinion maximization is mainly studied as finding a set of influential nodes…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Anuj Nayak , Seyyedali Hosseinalipour , Huaiyu Dai

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

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

The influence maximization problem is trying to identify a set of K nodes by which the spread of influence, diseases, or information is maximized. The optimization of influence by finding such a set is an NP-hard problem and a key issue in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-21 Masoud Jalayer , Morvarid Azheian , Mehrdad Mohammad Ali Kermani

A key step in influence maximization in online social networks is the identification of a small number of users, known as influencers, who are able to spread influence quickly and widely to other users. The evolving nature of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Weihua Li , Yuxuan Hu , Shiqing Wu , Quan Bai , Edmund Lai

Problem definition: Corporate brands, grassroots activists, and ordinary citizens all routinely employ Word-of-mouth (WoM) diffusion to promote products and instigate social change. Our work models the formation and spread of negative…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Shuoguang Yang , Shatian Wang , Van-Anh Truong

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

Since its introduction in 2003, the influence maximization (IM) problem has drawn significant research attention in the literature. The aim of IM is to select a set of k users who can influence the most individuals in the social network.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Hui Li , Mengting Xu , Sourav S Bhowmick , Changsheng Sun , Zhongyuan Jiang , Jiangtao Cui

We study the task of selecting $k$ nodes, in a social network of size $n$, to seed a diffusion with maximum expected spread size, under the independent cascade model with cascade probability $p$. Most of the previous work on this problem…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Dean Eckles , Hossein Esfandiari , Elchanan Mossel , M. Amin Rahimian

A topic propagating in a social network reaches its tipping point if the number of users discussing it in the network exceeds a critical threshold such that a wide cascade on the topic is likely to occur. In this paper, we consider the task…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-06-19 Peng Zhang , Wei Chen , Xiaoming Sun , Yajun Wang , Jialin Zhang

Influence maximization is the problem of finding a subset of the most influential individuals in a network. The impact of social networks on the dissemination of information and the development of viral marketing has made this problem as…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Maryam Adineh , Mostafa Nouri-Baygi

The research of influence propagation in social networks via word-of-mouth processes has been given considerable attention in recent years. Arguably, the most fundamental problem in this domain is influence maximization, where the goal is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Noa Avigdor-Elgrabli , Gideon Blocq , Iftah Gamzu , Ariel Orda

Given its vast application on online social networks, Influence Maximization (IM) has garnered considerable attention over the last couple of decades. Due to the intricacy of IM, most current research concentrates on estimating the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Zonghan Zhang , Zhiqian Chen

Multiplex influence maximization (MIM) asks us to identify a set of seed users such as to maximize the expected number of influenced users in a multiplex network. MIM has been one of central research topics, especially in nowadays social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Nguyen Do , Tanmoy Chowdhury , Chen Ling , Liang Zhao , My T. Thai

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

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

Nowadays, people in the modern world communicate with their friends, relatives, and colleagues through the internet. Persons/nodes and communication/edges among them form a network. Social media networks are a type of network where people…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Rahul Kumar Gautam

We study the online influence maximization problem in social networks under the independent cascade model. Specifically, we aim to learn the set of "best influencers" in a social network online while repeatedly interacting with it. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Zheng Wen , Branislav Kveton , Michal Valko , Sharan Vaswani