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Identifying the most influential nodes in information networks has been the focus of many research studies. This problem has crucial applications in various contexts, such as controlling the propagation of viruses or rumours in real-world…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ahmad Asgharian Rezaei , Justin Munoz , Mahdi Jalili , Hamid Khayyam

Finding the seed set that maximizes the influence spread over a network is a well-known NP-hard problem. Though a greedy algorithm can provide near-optimal solutions, the subproblem of influence estimation renders the solutions inefficient.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 George Panagopoulos , Nikolaos Tziortziotis , Michalis Vazirgiannis , Fragkiskos D. Malliaros

In this paper, we revisit the problem of influence maximization with fairness, which aims to select k influential nodes to maximise the spread of information in a network, while ensuring that selected sensitive user attributes are fairly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Yuting Feng , Ankitkumar Patel , Bogdan Cautis , Hossein Vahabi

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

Influence Maximization (IM), which aims to select a set of users from a social network to maximize the expected number of influenced users, is an evergreen hot research topic. Its research outcomes significantly impact real-world…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Taotao Cai , Quan Z. Sheng , Xiangyu Song , Jian Yang , Shuang Wang , Wei Emma Zhang , Jia Wu , Philip S. Yu

Current social networks are of extremely large-scale generating tremendous information flows at every moment. How information diffuse over social networks has attracted much attention from both industry and academics. Most of the existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-18 Chunxiao Jiang , Yan Chen , K. J. Ray Liu

Finding the most influential nodes in a network is a computationally hard problem with several possible applications in various kinds of network-based problems. While several methods have been proposed for tackling the influence…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Elia Cunegatti , Giovanni Iacca , Doina Bucur

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

Given a social network $G$ and an integer $k$, the influence maximization (IM) problem asks for a seed set $S$ of $k$ nodes from $G$ to maximize the expected number of nodes influenced via a propagation model. The majority of the existing…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Keke Huang , Jing Tang , Kai Han , Xiaokui Xiao , Wei Chen , Aixin Sun , Xueyan Tang , Andrew Lim

Influence maximization (IM) aims to select a small number of nodes that are able to maximize their influence in a network and covers a wide range of applications. Despite numerous attempts to provide effective solutions in ordinary…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-25 Ming Xie , Xiu-Xiu Zhan , Chuang Liu , Zi-Ke Zhang

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

We consider the problem of selecting a seed set to maximize the expected number of influenced nodes in the social network, referred to as the \textit{influence maximization} (IM) problem. We assume that the topology of the social network is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Xiaojin Zhang

In social online platforms, identifying influential seed users to maximize influence spread is a crucial as it can greatly diminish the cost and efforts required for information dissemination. While effective, traditional methods for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Huyen Nguyen , Hieu Dam , Nguyen Do , Cong Tran , Cuong Pham

We consider the influence maximization problem over a temporal graph, where there is a single fixed source. We deviate from the standard model of influence maximization, where the goal is to choose the set of most influential vertices.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Argyrios Deligkas , Michelle Döring , Eduard Eiben , Tiger-Lily Goldsmith , George Skretas

Data augmentation has been widely used in machine learning for natural language processing and computer vision tasks to improve model performance. However, little research has studied data augmentation on graph neural networks, particularly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Hongbo Bo , Ryan McConville , Jun Hong , Weiru Liu

The rapid spread of rumors on social media has posed significant challenges to maintaining public trust and information integrity. Since an information cascade process is essentially a propagation tree, recent rumor detection models…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Wei Jiang , Tong Chen , Xinyi Gao , Wentao Zhang , Lizhen Cui , Hongzhi Yin

For the purpose of propagating information and ideas through a social network, a seeding strategy aims to find a small set of seed users that are able to maximize the spread of the influence, which is termed as influence maximization…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Guangmo Tong , Weili Wu , Shaojie Tang , Ding-Zhu Du

Influence maximization is the task of finding a set of seed nodes in a social network such that the influence spread of these seed nodes based on certain influence diffusion model is maximized. Topic-aware influence diffusion models have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-11-24 Wei Chen , Tian Lin , Cheng Yang

We study a combinatorial model of the spread of influence in networks that generalizes existing schemata recently proposed in the literature. In our model, agents change behaviors/opinions on the basis of information collected from their…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-21 Luisa Gargano , Pavol Hell , Joseph G. Peters , Ugo Vaccaro

Maximizing influences in complex networks is a practically important but computationally challenging task for social network analysis, due to its NP- hard nature. Most current approximation or heuristic methods either require tremendous…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Changan Liu , Changjun Fan , Zhongzhi Zhang