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Most studies on influence maximization focus on one-shot propagation, i.e. the influence is propagated from seed users only once following a probabilistic diffusion model and users' activation are determined via single cascade. In reality…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-21 Xiaohan Shan , Wei Chen , Qiang Li , Xiaoming Sun , Jialin Zhang

Given a hypergraph, influence maximization (IM) is to discover a seed set containing $k$ vertices that have the maximal influence. Although the existing vertex-based IM algorithms perform better than the hyperedge-based algorithms by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Lingling Zhang , Hong Jiang , Ye Yuan , Guoren Wang

The study of graph-based submodular maximization problems was initiated in a seminal work of Kempe, Kleinberg, and Tardos (2003): An {\em influence} function of subsets of nodes is defined by the graph structure and the aim is to find…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-09-09 Edith Cohen

Given a budget and arbitrary cost for selecting each node, the budgeted influence maximization (BIM) problem concerns selecting a set of seed nodes to disseminate some information that maximizes the total number of nodes influenced (termed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-01-23 Huy Nguyen , Rong Zheng

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 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 propagation in networks has enjoyed fruitful applications and has been extensively studied in literature. However, only very limited preliminary studies tackled the challenges in handling highly dynamic changes in real networks.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Yu Yang , Zhefeng Wang , Tianyuan Jin , Jian Pei , Enhong Chen

Finding a small subset of influential nodes to maximise influence spread in a complex network is an active area of research. Different methods have been proposed in the past to identify a set of seed nodes that can help achieve a faster…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-12-23 Abida Sadaf , Luke Mathieson , Piotr Bródka , Katarzyna Musial

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

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

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 Maximization (IM) is a crucial problem in data science. The goal is to find a fixed-size set of highly-influential seed vertices on a network to maximize the influence spread along the edges. While IM is NP-hard on commonly-used…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Letong Wang , Xiangyun Ding , Yan Gu , Yihan Sun

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

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

Research on influence maximization has often to cope with marketing needs relating to the propagation of information towards specific users. However, little attention has been paid to the fact that the success of an information diffusion…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-04-23 Antonio Caliò , Roberto Interdonato , Chiara Pulice , Andrea Tagarelli

Social networks represent nowadays in many contexts the main source of information transmission and the way opinions and actions are influenced. For instance, generic advertisements are way less powerful than suggestions from our contacts.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Kateryna Konotopska , Giovanni Iacca

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

Various types of promising techniques have come into being for influence maximization whose aim is to identify influential nodes in complex networks. In essence, real-world applications usually have high requirements on the balance between…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Yi Liu , Xiaoan Tang , Witold Pedrycz , Qiang Zhang

We consider the optimization problem of seeding a spreading process on a temporal network so that the expected size of the resulting outbreak is maximized. We frame the problem for a spreading process following the rules of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-10-20 Sirag Erkol , Dario Mazzilli , Filippo Radicchi

Identifying super-spreaders can be framed as a subtask of the influence maximisation problem. It seeks to pinpoint agents within a network that, if selected as single diffusion seeds, disseminate information most effectively. Multilayer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Michał Czuba , Mateusz Stolarski , Adam Piróg , Piotr Bielak , Piotr Bródka