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The Influence Maximization (IM) problem seeks to discover the set of nodes in a graph that can spread the information propagation at most. This problem is known to be NP-hard, and it is usually studied by maximizing the influence (spread)…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Elia Cunegatti , Leonardo Lucio Custode , Giovanni Iacca

In this paper, we propose a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) approach for solving the optimisation problem of the network's sum-rate in device-to-device (D2D) communications supported by an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS). The IRS is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-09 Khoi Khac Nguyen , Antonino Masaracchia , Cheng Yin , Long D. Nguyen , Octavia A. Dobre , Trung Q. Duong

Deep learning techniques have been widely applied, achieving state-of-the-art results in various fields of study. This survey focuses on deep learning solutions that target learning control policies for robotics applications. We carry out…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-04-10 Lei Tai , Jingwei Zhang , Ming Liu , Joschka Boedecker , Wolfram Burgard

This paper explores the feasibility of leveraging concepts from deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to enable dynamic resource management in Wi-Fi networks implementing distributed multi-user MIMO (D-MIMO). D-MIMO is a technique by which a…

Online social networks have become an important platform for people to communicate, share knowledge and disseminate information. Given the widespread usage of social media, individuals' ideas, preferences and behavior are often influenced…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Hui Li , Susu Yang , Mengting Xu , Sourav S Bhowmick , Jiangtao Cui

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

Recent studies in using deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to solve Job-shop scheduling problems (JSSP) focus on construction heuristics. However, their performance is still far from optimality, mainly because the underlying graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Cong Zhang , Zhiguang Cao , Wen Song , Yaoxin Wu , Jie Zhang

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has become a popular method for solving control problems in power systems. Conventional DRL encourages the agent to explore various policies encoded in a neural network (NN) with the goal of maximizing the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Tong Wu , Anna Scaglione , Daniel Arnold

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

Reinforcement Learning (RL) is increasingly applied to large-scale decision-making problems like logistics, scheduling, and recommender systems, but existing algorithms struggle with the curse of dimensionality in such large discrete action…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Heiko Hoppe , Fabian Akkerman , Wouter van Heeswijk , Maximilian Schiffer

Mission planning for a fleet of cooperative autonomous drones in applications that involve serving distributed target points, such as disaster response, environmental monitoring, and surveillance, is challenging, especially under partial…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Michael Elrod , Niloufar Mehrabi , Rahul Amin , Manveen Kaur , Long Cheng , Jim Martin , Abolfazl Razi

Generative Diffusion Models (GDMs) have emerged as a transformative force in the realm of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), demonstrating their versatility and efficacy across various applications. The ability to model complex…

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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

In many real-world scenarios, an individual's local social network carries significant influence over the opinions they form and subsequently propagate. In this paper, we propose a novel diffusion model -- the Pressure Threshold model (PT)…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Curt Stutsman , Eliot W. Robson , Abhishek K. Umrawal

Recent years witnessed a remarkable increase in the availability of data and computing resources in communication networks. This contributed to the rise of data-driven over model-driven algorithms for network automation. This paper…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-30 Marco Skocaj , Lorenzo Mario Amorosa , Giorgio Ghinamo , Giuliano Muratore , Davide Micheli , Flavio Zabini , Roberto Verdone

This paper provides a comprehensive review of mainly GNN, DRL, and PTM methods with a focus on their potential incorporation in strategic multiagent settings. We draw interest in (i) ML methods currently utilized for uncovering unknown…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Georgios Chalkiadakis , Charilaos Akasiadis , Gerasimos Koresis , Stergios Plataniotis , Leonidas Bakopoulos

We are interested in the optimal scheduling of a collection of multi-component application jobs in an edge computing system that consists of geo-distributed edge computing nodes connected through a wide area network. The scheduling and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Zhi Cao , Honggang Zhang , Yu Cao , Benyuan Liu

Influence Maximization (IM) aims to maximize the number of people that become aware of a product by finding the `best' set of `seed' users to initiate the product advertisement. Unlike prior arts on static social networks containing fixed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Xudong Wu , Luoyi Fu , Zixin Zhang , Jingfan Meng , Xinbing Wang , Guihai Chen

In recent years, graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely applied in tackling combinatorial optimization problems. However, existing methods still suffer from limited accuracy when addressing that on complex graphs and exhibit poor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Yuyao Long

The traditional Internet has encountered a bottleneck in allocating network resources for emerging technology needs. Network virtualization (NV) technology as a future network architecture, the virtual network embedding (VNE) algorithm it…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-02-08 Shidong Zhang , Chao Wang , Junsan Zhang , Youxiang Duan , Xinhong You , Peiying Zhang