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Given a network, the critical node detection problem finds a subset of nodes whose removal disrupts the network connectivity. Since many real-world systems are naturally modeled as graphs, assessing the vulnerability of the network is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Tuguldur Bayarsaikhan , Altannar Chinchuluun , Ashwin Arulselvan , Panos Pardalos

In this paper, we address the important issue of uncertainty in the edge influence probability estimates for the well studied influence maximization problem --- the task of finding $k$ seed nodes in a social network to maximize the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Wei Chen , Tian Lin , Zihan Tan , Mingfei Zhao , Xuren Zhou

We study the task of selecting $k$ nodes, in a social network of size $n$, to seed a diffusion with maximum expected spread size, under the independent cascade model with cascade probability $p$. Most of the previous work on this problem…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Dean Eckles , Hossein Esfandiari , Elchanan Mossel , M. Amin Rahimian

The information flows among the people while they communicate through social media websites. Due to the dependency on digital media, a person shares important information or regular updates with friends and family. The set of persons on…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Rahul Kumar Gautam , Anjeneya Swami Kare , Durga Bhavani S

The well-known Influence Maximization (IM) problem has been actively studied by researchers over the past decade, with emphasis on marketing and social networks. Existing research have obtained solutions to the IM problem by obtaining the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-06 Trisha Lawrence

Since its introduction in 2003, the influence maximization (IM) problem has drawn significant research attention in the literature. The aim of IM is to select a set of k users who can influence the most individuals in the social network.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Hui Li , Mengting Xu , Sourav S Bhowmick , Changsheng Sun , Zhongyuan Jiang , Jiangtao Cui

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

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

This paper studies the multi-cascade influence maximization problem, which explores strategies for launching one information cascade in a social network with multiple existing cascades. With natural extensions to the classic models, we…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Guangmo Tong , Ruiqi Wang , Zheng Dong

The problem of finding the densest subgraph in a given graph has several applications in graph mining, particularly in areas like social network analysis, protein and gene analyses etc. Depending on the application, finding dense subgraphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-07 Naga V. C. Gudapati , Enrico Malaguti , Michele Monaci

We consider the problem of selecting $k$ seed nodes in a network to maximize the minimum probability of activation under an independent cascade beginning at these seeds. The motivation is to promote fairness by ensuring that even the least…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Dennis Robert Windham , Caroline J. Wendt , Alex Crane , Madelyn J Warr , Freda Shi , Sorelle A. Friedler , Blair D. Sullivan , Aaron Clauset

In this paper, we study the problem of robust influence maximization in the independent cascade model under a hyperparametric assumption. In social networks users influence and are influenced by individuals with similar characteristics and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Dimitris Kalimeris , Gal Kaplun , Yaron Singer

Contagion processes in social systems often involve interactions that go beyond pairwise contacts. Higher-order networks, represented as hypergraphs, have been widely used to model multi-body interactions, and their presence can drastically…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-26 Andrés Guzmán , Federico Malizia , István Z. Kiss

In the adaptive influence maximization problem, we are given a social network and a budget $k$, and we iteratively select $k$ nodes, called seeds, in order to maximize the expected number of nodes that are reached by an influence cascade…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Gianlorenzo D'Angelo , Debashmita Poddar , Cosimo Vinci

Influence maximization (IM) is the task of finding the most important nodes in order to maximize the spread of influence or information on a network. This task is typically studied on static or temporal networks where the complete topology…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Eric Yanchenko , Tsuyoshi Murata , Petter Holme

Influence maximization (IM) is an important topic in network science where a small seed set is chosen to maximize the spread of influence on a network. Recently, this problem has attracted attention on temporal networks where the network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Eric Yanchenko , Tsuyoshi Murata , Petter Holme

We study the balanced $k$-way hypergraph partitioning problem, with a special focus on its practical applications to manycore scheduling. Given a hypergraph on $n$ nodes, our goal is to partition the node set into $k$ parts of size at most…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Pál András Papp , Georg Anegg , A. N. Yzelman

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

We consider a ubiquitous scenario in the study of Influence Maximization (IM), in which there is limited knowledge about the topology of the diffusion network. We set the IM problem in a multi-round diffusion campaign, aiming to maximize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Yuting Feng , Vincent Y. F. Tan , Bogdan Cautis

Many complex systems involve direct interactions among more than two entities and can be represented by hypergraphs, in which hyperedges encode higher-order interactions among an arbitrary number of nodes. To analyze structures and dynamics…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-05-23 Kazuki Nakajima , Kazuyuki Shudo , Naoki Masuda