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The least cost influence maximization problem aims to determine minimum cost of partial (e.g., monetary) incentives initially given to the influential spreaders on a social network, so that these early adopters exert influence toward their…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Cheng-Lung Chen , Eduardo Pasiliao , Vladimir Boginski

Hypergraphs serve as an effective tool widely adopted to characterize higher-order interactions in complex systems. The most intuitive and commonly used mathematical instrument for representing a hypergraph is the incidence matrix, in which…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Junhao Bian , Yilin Bi , Tao Zhou

Given a social network represented as a graph where the nodes are the users and the edges represent the social relations, and a positive integer k, how to select k nodes to maximize the influence in the network remains an active area of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Poonam Sharma , Sanchit Virdi , Suman Banerjee

We consider the problem of embedding the nodes of a hypergraph into Euclidean space under the assumption that the interactions arose through closeness to unknown hyperedge centres. In this way, we tackle the inverse problem associated with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Francesco Zigliotto , Desmond J. Higham

Hyperdimensional (HD) computing is a set of neurally inspired methods for obtaining high-dimensional, low-precision, distributed representations of data. These representations can be combined with simple, neurally plausible algorithms to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Anthony Thomas , Sanjoy Dasgupta , Tajana Rosing

Graph representation learning has made major strides over the past decade. However, in many relational domains, the input data are not suited for simple graph representations as the relationships between entities go beyond pairwise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-20 Balasubramaniam Srinivasan , Da Zheng , George Karypis

Graph neural network, as a powerful graph representation technique based on deep learning, has shown superior performance and attracted considerable research interest. However, it has not been fully considered in graph neural network for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Xiao Wang , Houye Ji , Chuan Shi , Bai Wang , Peng Cui , P. Yu , Yanfang Ye

We propose an online heuristic algorithm for the problem of network slice placement optimization. The solution is adapted to support placement on large scale networks and integrates Edge-specific and URLLC constraints. We rely on an…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Jose Jurandir Alves Esteves , Amina Boubendir , Fabrice Guillemin , Pierre Sens

Approximate solutions to various NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems have been found by learned heuristics using complex learning models. In particular, vertex (node) classification in graphs has been a helpful method towards…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Ali Baran Taşdemir , Tuna Karacan , Emir Kaan Kırmacı , Lale Özkahya

We propose a distributionally robust model for the influence maximization problem. Unlike the classic independent cascade model \citep{kempe2003maximizing}, this model's diffusion process is adversarially adapted to the choice of seed set.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Louis Chen , Divya Padmanabhan , Chee Chin Lim , Karthik Natarajan

Efficient marketing or awareness-raising campaigns seek to recruit $n$ influential individuals -- where $n$ is the campaign budget -- that are able to cover a large target audience through their social connections. So far most of the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-12-21 Konstantin Avrachenkov , Prithwish Basu , Giovanni Neglia , Bruno Ribeiro , Don Towsley

Influence Maximization is a NP-hard problem of selecting the optimal set of influencers in a network. Here, we propose two new approaches to influence maximization based on two very different metrics. The first metric, termed Balanced Index…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Panagiotis D. Karampourniotis , Boleslaw K. Szymanski , Gyorgy Korniss

Hypergraph neural networks (HGNNs) have shown remarkable potential in modeling high-order relationships that naturally arise in many real-world data domains. However, existing HGNNs often suffer from shallow propagation, oversmoothing, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zhiheng Zhou , Mengyao Zhou , Xixun Lin , Xingqin Qi , Guiying Yan

Higher-order interactions (HOIs) in complex systems, such as scientific collaborations, multi-protein complexes, and multi-user communications, are commonly modeled as hypergraphs, where each hyperedge (i.e., a subset of nodes) represents…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Hyunjin Choo , Fanchen Bu , Hyunjin Hwang , Young-Gyu Yoon , Kijung Shin

In this paper, we develop a novel paradigm, namely hypergraph shift, to find robust graph modes by probabilistic voting strategy, which are semantically sound besides the self-cohesiveness requirement in forming graph modes. Unlike the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Yang Wang , Lin Wu

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

One key problem in network analysis is the so-called influence maximization problem, which consists in finding a set $S$ of at most $k$ seed users, in a social network, maximizing the spread of information from $S$. This paper studies a…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Ruben Becker , Gianlorenzo D'Angelo , Hugo Gilbert

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

Given a graph $G$, a community structure $\mathcal{C}$, and a budget $k$, the fair influence maximization problem aims to select a seed set $S$ ($|S|\leq k$) that maximizes the influence spread while narrowing the influence gap between…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Xiaobin Rui , Zhixiao Wang , Jiayu Zhao , Lichao Sun , Wei Chen

Given a social network with nonuniform selection cost of the users, the problem of \textit{Budgeted Influence Maximization} (BIM in short) asks for selecting a subset of the nodes within an allocated budget for initial activation, such that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Suman Banerjee , Mamata Jenamani , Dilip Kumar Pratihar