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In this paper, we study the Budgeted Influence Maximization with Delay Problem, for which the number of literature are limited. We propose an approximate marginal spread computation\mbox{-}based approach for solving this problem. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Suman Banerjee , Mamata Jenamani , Dilip Kumar Pratihar

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 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

In this paper, we study the adversarial attacks on influence maximization under dynamic influence propagation models in social networks. In particular, given a known seed set S, the problem is to minimize the influence spread from S by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Lichao Sun , Xiaobin Rui , Wei Chen

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

Influence maximization is the problem of finding a set of influential users in a social network such that the expected spread of influence under a certain propagation model is maximized. Much of the previous work has neglected the important…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Wei Lu , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

We propose a distributionally robust model for the influence maximization problem. Unlike the classic independent cascade model \citep{kempe2003maximizing}, this model's diffusion process is adversarially adapted to the choice of seed set.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Louis Chen , Divya Padmanabhan , Chee Chin Lim , Karthik Natarajan

Given a social network, where each user is associated with a selection cost, the problem of \textsc{Budgeted Influence Maximization} (\emph{BIM Problem} in short) asks to choose a subset of them (known as seed users) within an allocated…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Suman Banerjee , Bithika Pal

We consider the problem of Influence Maximization (IM), the task of selecting $k$ seed nodes in a social network such that the expected number of nodes influenced is maximized. We propose a community-aware divide-and-conquer framework that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Abhishek K. Umrawal , Christopher J. Quinn , Vaneet Aggarwal

Although influence maximization problem has been extensively studied over the past ten years, majority of existing work adopt one of the following models: \emph{full-feedback model} or \emph{zero-feedback model}. In the zero-feedback model,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Jing Yuan , Shaojie Tang

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

Social-media platforms have created new ways for citizens to stay informed and participate in public debates. However, to enable a healthy environment for information sharing, social deliberation, and opinion formation, citizens need to be…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Cigdem Aslay , Antonis Matakos , Esther Galbrun , Aristides Gionis

Influence maximization in temporal social networks presents unique challenges due to the dynamic interactions that evolve over time. Traditional diffusion models often fall short in capturing the real-world complexities of active-inactive…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Aaqib Zahoor , Iqra Altaf Gillani , Janib ul Bashir

Social networks, due to their popularity, have been studied extensively these years. A rich body of these studies is related to influence maximization, which aims to select a set of seed nodes for maximizing the expected number of active…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-10-14 Zhefeng Wang , Enhong Chen , Qi Liu , Yu Yang , Yong Ge , Biao Chang

Influence maximization in networks is a central problem in machine learning and causal inference, where an intervention on a subset of individuals triggers a diffusion process through the network. Existing approaches typically optimize…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-13 Renjie Cao , Zhuoxin Yan , Xinyan Su , Zhiheng Zhang

This survey presents the main results achieved for the influence maximization problem in social networks. This problem is well studied in the literature and, thanks to its recent applications, some of which currently deployed on the field,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Giuseppe De Nittis , Nicola Gatti

We address the problem of influence maximization when the social network is accompanied by diffusion cascades. In prior works, such information is used to compute influence probabilities, which is utilized by stochastic diffusion models in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-11-23 George Panagopoulos , Fragkiskos D. Malliaros , Michalis Vazirgiannis

We consider the *adaptive influence maximization problem*: given a network and a budget $k$, iteratively select $k$ seeds in the network to maximize the expected number of adopters. In the *full-adoption feedback model*, after selecting…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Wei Chen , Binghui Peng , Grant Schoenebeck , Biaoshuai Tao

Influence maximization is a well-studied problem that asks for a small set of influential users from a social network, such that by targeting them as early adopters, the expected total adoption through influence cascades over the network is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-11-06 Wei Lu , Wei Chen , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

We study influence maximization on temporal networks. This is a special setting where the influence function is not submodular, and there is no optimality guarantee for solutions achieved via greedy optimization. We perform an exhaustive…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-09-05 Sirag Erkol , Dario Mazzilli , Filippo Radicchi