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Fair Influence Maximization (FIM) seeks to mitigate disparities in influence across different groups and has recently garnered increasing attention. A widely adopted notion of fairness in FIM is the maximin constraint, which directly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Xiaobin Rui , Qiangpeng Fang , Chen Peng , Jilong Shi , Zhixiao Wang , Wei Chen

Influence maximization (IM) aims to identify a small number of influential individuals to maximize the information spread and finds applications in various fields. It was first introduced in the context of viral marketing, where a company…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Shiqi Zhang , Yiqian Huang , Jiachen Sun , Wenqing Lin , Xiaokui Xiao , Bo Tang

As a widely observable social effect, influence diffusion refers to a process where innovations, trends, awareness, etc. spread across the network via the social impact among individuals. Motivated by such social effect, the concept of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Liang Ma

Influence Maximization (IM) is a famous topic in mobile networks and social computing, which aims at finding a small subset of users to maximize the influence spread through online information cascade. Recently, some careful researchers…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Jianxiong Guo , Qiufen Ni , Weili Wu , Ding-Zhu Du

Influence maximization is the problem of finding influential users, or nodes, in a graph so as to maximize the spread of information. It has many applications in advertising and marketing on social networks. In this paper, we study a highly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Paul Lagrée , Olivier Cappé , Bogdan Cautis , Silviu Maniu

For the purpose of maximizing the spread of influence caused by a certain small number k of nodes in a social network, we are asked to find a k-subset of nodes (i.e., a seed set) with the best capacity to influence the nodes not in it. This…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Enqiang Zhu , Haosen Wang , Yu Zhang , Kai Zhang , Chanjuan Liu

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

Influence Maximization Problem (IMP) is selecting a seed set of nodes in the social network to spread the influence as widely as possible. It has many applications in multiple domains, e.g., viral marketing is frequently used for new…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-01-23 Xinxun Zeng , Shiqi Zhang , Bo Tang

Given a social network of users with selection cost, the \textsc{Budgeted Influence Maximization Problem} (\emph{BIM Problem} in short) asks for selecting a subset of the nodes (known as \emph{seed nodes}) within an allocated budget for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Suman Banerjee

Influence maximization in complex networks, i.e., maximizing the size of influenced nodes via selecting K seed nodes for a given spreading process, has attracted great attention in recent years. However, the influence maximization problem…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Ming Xie , Xiu-Xiu Zhan , Chuang Liu , Zi-Ke Zhang

Influence Maximization problem has received significant attention in recent years due to its application in various do?mains such as product recommendation, public opinion dissemination, and disease propagation. This paper proposes a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Renquan Zhang , Xilong Qu , Qiang Zhang , Xirong Xu , Sen Pei

Online influence maximization (OIM) is a popular problem in social networks to learn influence propagation model parameters and maximize the influence spread at the same time. Most previous studies focus on the independent cascade (IC)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Shuai Li , Fang Kong , Kejie Tang , Qizhi Li , Wei Chen

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

Information diffusion in networks has received a lot of recent attention. Most previous work addresses the influence maximization problem of selecting an appropriate set of seed nodes to initiate the diffusion process so that the largest…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Konstantinos Liontis , Evaggelia Pitoura

Influence maximization (IM) is one of the most important problems in social network analysis. Its objective is to find a given number of seed nodes that maximize the spread of information through a social network. Since it is an NP-hard…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Jihoon Ko , Kyuhan Lee , Kijung Shin , Noseong Park

Given a social network with diffusion probabilities as edge weights and an integer k, which k nodes should be chosen for initial injection of information to maximize influence in the network? This problem is known as Target Set Selection in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-08-17 Suman Banerjee , Mamata Jenamani , Dilip Kumar Pratihar

In recent years, the exploration of node centrality has received significant attention and extensive investigation, primarily fuelled by its applications in diverse domains such as product recommendations, opinion propagation, disease…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Renquan Zhang , Ting Wei , Yifan Sun , Sen Pei

The steady growth of graph data from social networks has resulted in wide-spread research in finding solutions to the influence maximization problem. In this paper, we propose a holistic solution to the influence maximization (IM) problem.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-10 Sainyam Galhotra , Akhil Arora , Shourya Roy

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

In recent years, social networking platforms have gained significant popularity among the masses like connecting with people and propagating ones thoughts and opinions. This has opened the door to user-specific advertisements and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Aaryan Gupta , Inder Khatri , Arjun Choudhry , Pranav Chandhok , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma , Mukesh Prasad