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Evaluating modern machine learning models has become prohibitively expensive. Benchmarks such as LMMs-Eval and HELM demand thousands of GPU hours per model. Costly evaluation reduces inclusivity, slows the cycle of innovation, and worsens…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Alexander Rubinstein , Benjamin Raible , Martin Gubri , Seong Joon Oh

The problem of influence maximization is to select the most influential individuals in a social network. With the popularity of social network sites, and the development of viral marketing, the importance of the problem has been increased.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Maryam Adineh , Mostafa Nouri-Baygi

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

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have great potential to solve many real-world problems, but they usually require an extensive amount of computation and memory. It is of great difficulty to deploy a large DNN model to a single resource-limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Minghai Qin , Chao Sun , Jaco Hofmann , Dejan Vucinic

Influence maximization (IM) is an important topic in network science where a small seed set is chosen to maximize the spread of influence on a network. Recently, this problem has attracted attention on temporal networks where the network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Eric Yanchenko , Tsuyoshi Murata , Petter Holme

In this paper, we study the problem of robust influence maximization in the independent cascade model under a hyperparametric assumption. In social networks users influence and are influenced by individuals with similar characteristics and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Dimitris Kalimeris , Gal Kaplun , Yaron Singer

The problem of finding the optimal set of source nodes in a diffusion network that maximizes the spread of information, influence, and diseases in a limited amount of time depends dramatically on the underlying temporal dynamics of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-05-09 Manuel Gomez Rodriguez , Bernhard Schölkopf

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

Influence maximization (IM) is the problem of finding a seed vertex set which is expected to incur the maximum influence spread on a graph. It has various applications in practice such as devising an effective and efficient approach to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Gokhan Gokturk , Kamer Kaya

Influence Maximization (IM) is a famous topic in mobile networks and social computing, which aims at finding a small subset of users to maximize the influence spread through online information cascade. Recently, some careful researchers…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Jianxiong Guo , Qiufen Ni , Weili Wu , Ding-Zhu Du

How would admissions look like in a university program for influencers? In the realm of social network analysis, influence maximization and link prediction stand out as pivotal challenges. Influence maximization focuses on identifying a set…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Marina Lin , Laura P. Schaposnik , Raina Wu

The well-known Influence Maximization (IM) problem has been actively studied by researchers over the past decade, with emphasis on marketing and social networks. Existing research have obtained solutions to the IM problem by obtaining the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-06 Trisha Lawrence

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 is the problem of finding influential users, or nodes, in a graph so as to maximize the spread of information. It has many applications in advertising and marketing on social networks. In this paper, we study a highly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Paul Lagrée , Olivier Cappé , Bogdan Cautis , Silviu Maniu

Influence maximization aims to identify a set of influential individuals, referred to as influencers, as information sources to maximize the spread of information within networks, constituting a vital combinatorial optimization problem with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Wenfeng Shi , Tianlong Fan , Shuqi Xu , Rongmei Yang , Linyuan Lü

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

This paper studies the multi-cascade influence maximization problem, which explores strategies for launching one information cascade in a social network with multiple existing cascades. With natural extensions to the classic models, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Guangmo Tong , Ruiqi Wang , Zheng Dong

The inference of novel knowledge, the discovery of hidden patterns, and the uncovering of insights from large amounts of data from a multitude of sources make Data Science (DS) to an art rather than just a mere scientific discipline. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Salvatore Cuomo , Wolfgang Erb , Gabriele Santin

We consider a ubiquitous scenario in the study of Influence Maximization (IM), in which there is limited knowledge about the topology of the diffusion network. We set the IM problem in a multi-round diffusion campaign, aiming to maximize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Yuting Feng , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Bogdan Cautis

Influence propagation has been the subject of extensive study due to its important role in social networks, epidemiology, and many other areas. Understanding propagation mechanisms is critical to control the spread of fake news or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Vinicius Ferreira , Artur Pessoa , Thibaut Vidal