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Influence maximization (IM) aims at maximizing the spread of influence by offering discounts to influential users (called seeding). In many applications, due to user's privacy concern, overwhelming network scale etc., it is hard to target…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Chen Feng , Luoyi Fu , Bo Jiang , Haisong Zhang , Xinbing Wang , Feilong Tang , Guihai Chen

Influence Maximization is an extensively-studied problem that targets at selecting a set of initial seed nodes in the Online Social Networks (OSNs) to spread the influence as widely as possible. However, it remains an open challenge to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Jing Tang , Xueyan Tang , Junsong Yuan

Influence maximization (IM) is the problem of finding for a given $s\geq 1$ a set $S$ of $|S|=s$ nodes in a network with maximum influence. With stochastic diffusion models, the influence of a set $S$ of seed nodes is defined as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Gal Sadeh , Edith Cohen , Haim Kaplan

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

Influence maximization (IM) is a classic problem that aims to identify a small group of critical individuals, known as seeds, who can influence the largest number of users in a social network through word-of-mouth. This problem finds…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Yiqian Huang , Shiqi Zhang , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan , Wenqing Lin , Xiaokui Xiao , Bo Tang

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

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(IM) aims to identify highly influential nodes to maximize influence spread in a network. Previous research on the IM problem has mainly concentrated on single-layer networks, disregarding the comprehension of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-16 Su-Su Zhang , Ming Xie , Chuang Liu , Xiu-Xiu Zhan

Since the structure of complex networks is often unknown, we may identify the most influential seed nodes by exploring only a part of the underlying network, given a small budget for node queries. We propose IM-META, a solution to influence…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Cong Tran , Won-Yong Shin , Andreas Spitz

Influence maximization is the problem of selecting top $k$ seed nodes in a social network to maximize their influence coverage under certain influence diffusion models. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm IRIE that integrates a new…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-03-20 Kyomin Jung , Wooram Heo , Wei Chen

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

Influence analysis is a fundamental problem in social network analysis and mining. The important applications of the influence analysis in social network include influence maximization for viral marketing, finding the most influential…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-07-05 Rong-Hua Li , Jeffrey Xu Yu , Zechao Shang

We consider the problem of maximizing the spread of influence in a social network by choosing a fixed number of initial seeds, formally referred to as the influence maximization problem. It admits a $(1-1/e)$-factor approximation algorithm…

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

Influence Maximization (IM) in temporal graphs focuses on identifying influential "seeds" that are pivotal for maximizing network expansion. We advocate defining these seeds through Influence Propagation Paths (IPPs), which is essential for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Laixin Xie , Ying Zhang , Xiyuan Wang , Shiyi Liu , Shenghan Gao , Xingxing Xing , Wei Wan , Haipeng Zhang , Quan Li

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

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

The rise of Online Social Networks (OSNs) has caused an insurmountable amount of interest from advertisers and researchers seeking to monopolize on its features. Researchers aim to develop strategies for determining how information is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-03-09 Trisha Lawrence

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

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) 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