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In this paper, we study the Multi-Round Influence Maximization (MRIM) problem, where influence propagates in multiple rounds independently from possibly different seed sets, and the goal is to select seeds for each round to maximize the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Lichao Sun , Weiran Huang , Philip S. Yu , Wei Chen

Aiming at selecting a small subset of nodes with maximum influence on networks, the Influence Maximization (IM) problem has been extensively studied. Since it is #P-hard to compute the influence spread given a seed set, the state-of-the-art…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Tiantian Chen , Siwen Yan , Jianxiong Guo , Weili Wu

Influence Maximization Problem (IMP) is selecting a seed set of nodes in the social network to spread the influence as widely as possible. It has many applications in multiple domains, e.g., viral marketing is frequently used for new…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Xinxun Zeng , Shiqi Zhang , Bo Tang

We study the online influence maximization (OIM) problem in social networks, where the learner repeatedly chooses seed nodes to generate cascades, observes the cascade feedback, and gradually learns the best seeds that generate the largest…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Zhijie Zhang , Wei Chen , Xiaoming Sun , Jialin Zhang

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

Influence maximization (IM) is a crucial optimization task related to analyzing complex networks in the real world, such as social networks, disease propagation networks, and marketing networks. Publications to date about the IM problem…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Xilong Qu , Wenbin Pei , Yingchao Yang , Xirong Xu , Renquan Zhang , Qiang Zhang

Selecting the optimal subset from all vertices as seeds to maximize the influence in a social network has been a task of interest. Various methods have been proposed to select the optimal vertices in a static network, however, they are…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Fangqi Li , Chong Di , Shenghong Li

Multi-armed bandit problems are receiving a great deal of attention because they adequately formalize the exploration-exploitation trade-offs arising in several industrially relevant applications, such as online advertisement and, more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-05 Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi , Claudio Gentile , Giovanni Zappella

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 is a crucial issue for mining the deep information of social networks, which aims to select a seed set from the network to maximize the number of influenced nodes. To evaluate the influence spread of a seed set…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Chao Wang , Jiaxuan Zhao , Lingling Li , Licheng Jiao , Jing Liu , Kai Wu

Multi-arm bandit (MAB) is a classic online learning framework that studies the sequential decision-making in an uncertain environment. The MAB framework, however, overlooks the scenario where the decision-maker cannot take actions (e.g.,…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Zhiyuan Wang , Lin Gao , Jianwei Huang

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

One key problem in network analysis is the so-called influence maximization problem, which consists in finding a set $S$ of at most $k$ seed users, in a social network, maximizing the spread of information from $S$. This paper studies a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Ruben Becker , Gianlorenzo D'Angelo , Hugo Gilbert

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

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

Online experimentation with interference is a common challenge in modern applications such as e-commerce and adaptive clinical trials in medicine. For example, in online marketplaces, the revenue of a good depends on discounts applied to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Abhineet Agarwal , Anish Agarwal , Lorenzo Masoero , Justin Whitehouse

Information spread through social networks is ubiquitous. Influence maximiza- tion (IM) algorithms aim to identify individuals who will generate the greatest spread through the social network if provided with information, and have been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-16 Octavio Mesner , Elizaveta Levina , Ji Zhu

Influence maximization (IM) aims to find seed users on an online social network to maximize the spread of information about a target product through word-of-mouth propagation among all users. Prior IM methods mostly focus on maximizing the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Ying Wang , Yanhao Wang

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

The classic influence maximization problem finds a limited number of influential seed users in a social network such that the expected number of influenced users in the network, following an influence cascade model, is maximized. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Kaivalya Rawal , Arijit Khan