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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

The Competitive Influence Maximization (CIM) problem involves multiple entities competing for influence in online social networks (OSNs). While Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has shown promise, existing methods often assume users'…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Qi Zhang , Dian Chen , Lance M. Kaplan , Audun Jøsang , Dong Hyun Jeong , Feng Chen , Jin-Hee Cho

We study the problem of online influence maximization in social networks. In this problem, a learner aims to identify the set of "best influencers" in a network by interacting with it, i.e., repeatedly selecting seed nodes and observing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Qingyun Wu , Zhige Li , Huazheng Wang , Wei Chen , Hongning Wang

In this paper, we propose a new influence spread model, namely, Complementary\&Competitive Independent Cascade (C$^2$IC) model. C$^2$IC model generalizes three well known influence model, i.e., influence boosting (IB) model, campaign…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Qihao Shi , Wenjie Tian , Wujian Yang , Mengqi Xue , Can Wang , Minghui Wu

We consider the problem of \emph{influence maximization}, the problem of maximizing the number of people that become aware of a product by finding the `best' set of `seed' users to expose the product to. Most prior work on this topic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-04-28 Sharan Vaswani , Laks. V. S. Lakshmanan , Mark Schmidt

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

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

The influence maximization (IM) problem aims at finding a subset of seed nodes in a social network that maximize the spread of influence. In this study, we focus on a sub-class of IM problems, where whether the nodes are willing to be the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Haipeng Chen , Wei Qiu , Han-Ching Ou , Bo An , Milind Tambe

In many real-world situations, different and often opposite opinions, innovations, or products are competing with one another for their social influence in a networked society. In this paper, we study competitive influence propagation in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-10-24 Xinran He , Guojie Song , Wei Chen , Qingye Jiang

Online social networks have become an important platform for people to communicate, share knowledge and disseminate information. Given the widespread usage of social media, individuals' ideas, preferences and behavior are often influenced…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Hui Li , Susu Yang , Mengting Xu , Sourav S Bhowmick , Jiangtao Cui

Online influence maximization aims to maximize the influence spread of a content in a social network with unknown network model by selecting a few seed nodes. Recent studies followed a non-adaptive setting, where the seed nodes are selected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Kaixuan Huang , Yu Wu , Xuezhou Zhang , Shenyinying Tu , Qingyun Wu , Mengdi Wang , Huazheng Wang

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

Online social network has been one of the most important platforms for viral marketing. Most of existing researches about diffusion of adoptions of new products on networks are about one diffusion. That is, only one piece of information…

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

Competitive influence maximization has been studied for several years, and various frameworks have been proposed to model different aspects of information diffusion under the competitive environment. This work presents a new gameboard for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Malihe Alavi , Farnoush Manavi , Amirhossein Ansari , Ali Hamzeh

Social connections are conduits through which individuals communicate, information propagates, and diseases spread. Identifying individuals who are more likely to adopt ideas and spread them is essential in order to develop effective…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Vedran Sekara , Ivan Dotu , Manuel Cebrian , Esteban Moro , Manuel Garcia-Herranz

Today, many companies take advantage of viral marketing to promote their new products, and since there are several competing companies in many markets, Competitive Influence Maximization has attracted much attention. Two categories of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Amirhossein Ansari , Masoud Dadgar , Ali Hamzeh , Jörg Schlötterer , Michael Granitzer

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

Influence maximization is the problem of finding a small subset of nodes in a network that can maximize the diffusion of information. Recently, it has also found application in HIV prevention, substance abuse prevention, micro-finance…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Dexun Li , Meghna Lowalekar , Pradeep Varakantham

Traditional viral marketing problems aim at selecting a subset of seed users for one single product to maximize its awareness in social networks. However, in real scenarios, multiple products can be promoted in social networks at the same…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Jiawei Zhang , Senzhang Wang , Qianyi Zhan , Philip S. Yu

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