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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 (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

The influence maximization (IM) problem aims at finding a subset of seed nodes in a social network that maximize the spread of influence. In this study, we focus on a sub-class of IM problems, where whether the nodes are willing to be the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Haipeng Chen , Wei Qiu , Han-Ching Ou , Bo An , Milind Tambe

A social network (SN) is a social structure consisting of a group representing the interaction between them. SNs have recently been widely used and, subsequently, have become suitable and popular platforms for product promotion and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Saeid Ghafouri , Seyed Hossein Khasteh , Seyed Omid Azarkasb

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

Nowadays, organizations use viral marketing strategies to promote their products through social networks. It is expensive to directly send the product promotional information to all the users in the network. In this context, Kempe et al.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Rahul Kumar Gautam , Anjeneya Swami Kare , S. Durga Bhavani

The Influence Maximization (IM) problem is a well-known NP-hard combinatorial problem over graphs whose goal is to find the set of nodes in a network that spreads influence at most. Among the various methods for solving the IM problem,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Stefano Genetti , Eros Ribaga , Elia Cunegatti , Quintino Francesco Lotito , Giovanni Iacca

Influence maximization (IM) has garnered a lot of attention in the literature owing to applications such as viral marketing and infection containment. It aims to select a small number of seed users to adopt an item such that adoption…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Prithu Banerjee , Wei Chen , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

Influence Maximization (IM) is a pivotal concept in social network analysis, involving the identification of influential nodes within a network to maximize the number of influenced nodes, and has a wide variety of applications that range…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Matteo Bergamaschi , Sara Venturini , Francesco Tudisco , Francesco Rinaldi

The Influence Maximization (IM) problem aims to find a small set of influential users to maximize their influence spread in a social network. Traditional methods rely on fixed diffusion models with known parameters, limiting their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Hongliang Qiao , Shanshan Feng , Min Zhou , Xutao Li , Yunming Ye , Fan Li , Shuo Shang , Yew-Soon Ong

Social networks are commonly used for marketing purposes. For example, free samples of a product can be given to a few influential social network users (or "seed nodes"), with the hope that they will convince their friends to buy it. One…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Siyu Lei , Silviu Maniu , Luyi Mo , Reynold Cheng , Pierre Senellart

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

The influence maximization (IM) problem involves identifying a set of key individuals in a social network who can maximize the spread of influence through their network connections. With the advent of geometric deep learning on graphs,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Yunming Hui , Shihan Wang , Melisachew Wudage Chekol , Stevan Rudinac , Inez Maria Zwetsloot

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 this survey, we offer an extensive overview of the Online Influence Maximization (IM) problem by covering both theoretical aspects and practical applications. For the integrity of the article and because the online algorithm takes an…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Jianxiong Guo

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

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

We consider the problem of selecting a seed set to maximize the expected number of influenced nodes in the social network, referred to as the \textit{influence maximization} (IM) problem. We assume that the topology of the social network is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Xiaojin Zhang

Influence maximization (IM) is a classic problem that aims to identify a small group of critical individuals, known as seeds, who can influence the largest number of users in a social network through word-of-mouth. This problem finds…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Yiqian Huang , Shiqi Zhang , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan , Wenqing Lin , Xiaokui Xiao , Bo Tang

The problem of influence maximization is to select the most influential individuals in a social network. With the popularity of social network sites, and the development of viral marketing, the importance of the problem has been increased.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Maryam Adineh , Mostafa Nouri-Baygi
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