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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

Influence maximization (IM) is the problem of identifying a limited number of initial influential users within a social network to maximize the number of influenced users. However, previous research has mostly focused on individual…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Zirui Yuan , Minglai Shao , Zhiqian 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) is a classical combinatorial optimization problem, which can be widely used in mobile networks, social computing, and recommendation systems. It aims at selecting a small number of users such that maximizing the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Yandi Li , Haobo Gao , Yunxuan Gao , Jianxiong Guo , Weili Wu

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

Influence maximization (IM) is formulated as selecting a set of initial users from a social network to maximize the expected number of influenced users. Researchers have made great progress in designing various traditional methods, and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Chen Ling , Junji Jiang , Junxiang Wang , My Thai , Lukas Xue , James Song , Meikang Qiu , Liang Zhao

Influence propagation in networks has enjoyed fruitful applications and has been extensively studied in literature. However, only very limited preliminary studies tackled the challenges in handling highly dynamic changes in real networks.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Yu Yang , Zhefeng Wang , Tianyuan Jin , Jian Pei , Enhong Chen

Influence Maximization (IM) is vital in viral marketing and biological network analysis for identifying key influencers. Given its NP-hard nature, approximate solutions are employed. This paper addresses scalability challenges in scale-out…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Hanjiang Wu , Huan Xu , Joongun Park , Jesmin Jahan Tithi , Fabio Checconi , Jordi Wolfson-Pou , Fabrizio Petrini , Tushar Krishna

Due to much closer to real application scenarios,the budgeted influence maximization (BIM) problem has attracted great attention among researchers. As a variant of the influence maximization (IM) problem, the BIM problem aims at mining…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Jianshe Wu , Junjun Gao , Hongde Zhu , Zulei Zhang

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

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

Diffusion is a fundamental graph process, underpinning such phenomena as epidemic disease contagion and the spread of innovation by word-of-mouth. We address the algorithmic problem of finding a set of k initial seed nodes in a network so…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Christian Borgs , Michael Brautbar , Jennifer Chayes , Brendan Lucier

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) is to identify the seed set to maximize information dissemination in a network. Elegant IM algorithms could naturally extend to cases where each node is equipped with a specific weight, reflecting individual…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Xinyan Su , Zhiheng Zhang , Jiyan Qiu

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) 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

In social networks, individuals' decisions are strongly influenced by recommendations from their friends and acquaintances. The influence maximization (IM) problem asks to select a seed set of users that maximizes the influence spread,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Alessio Arleo , Walter Didimo , Giuseppe Liotta , Silvia Miksch , Fabrizio Montecchiani

Influence maximization aims to select k most-influential vertices or seeds in a network, where influence is defined by a given diffusion process. Although computing optimal seed set is NP-Hard, efficient approximation algorithms exist.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Xinyu Chen , Marco Minutoli , Jiannan Tian , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Ananth Kalyanaraman , Dingwen Tao

Influence maximization, fundamental for word-of-mouth marketing and viral marketing, aims to find a set of seed nodes maximizing influence spread on social network. Early methods mainly fall into two paradigms with certain benefits and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Suqi Cheng , Hua-Wei Shen , Junming Huang , Wei Chen , Xue-Qi Cheng

Nowadays, organizations use viral marketing strategies to promote their products through social networks. It is expensive to directly send the product promotional information to all the users in the network. In this context, Kempe et al.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Rahul Kumar Gautam , Anjeneya Swami Kare , S. Durga Bhavani