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Given a budget and arbitrary cost for selecting each node, the budgeted influence maximization (BIM) problem concerns selecting a set of seed nodes to disseminate some information that maximizes the total number of nodes influenced (termed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-01-23 Huy Nguyen , Rong Zheng

How would admissions look like in a university program for influencers? In the realm of social network analysis, influence maximization and link prediction stand out as pivotal challenges. Influence maximization focuses on identifying a set…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Marina Lin , Laura P. Schaposnik , Raina Wu

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

The spread of influence in networks is a topic of great importance in many application areas. For instance, one would like to maximise the coverage, limiting the budget for marketing campaign initialisation and use the potential of social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Radosław Michalski , Jarosław Jankowski , Piotr Bródka

Influence maximization (IM) is a fundamental problem in complex network analysis, with a wide range of real-world applications. To date, existing approaches to influential node identification in IM have predominantly relied on standard…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Qianshi Wang , Xilong Qu , Wenbin Pei , Nan Li , Qiang Zhang

Influence maximization (IM) is a crucial optimization task related to analyzing complex networks in the real world, such as social networks, disease propagation networks, and marketing networks. Publications to date about the IM problem…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Xilong Qu , Wenbin Pei , Yingchao Yang , Xirong Xu , Renquan Zhang , Qiang Zhang

Finding the seed set that maximizes the influence spread over a network is a well-known NP-hard problem. Though a greedy algorithm can provide near-optimal solutions, the subproblem of influence estimation renders the solutions inefficient.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-17 George Panagopoulos , Nikolaos Tziortziotis , Michalis Vazirgiannis , Fragkiskos D. Malliaros

Influence maximization is the problem of finding a set of users in a social network, such that by targeting this set, one maximizes the expected spread of influence in the network. Most of the literature on this topic has focused…

Databases · Computer Science 2011-10-03 Amit Goyal , Francesco Bonchi , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

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

The increasing prominence of temporal networks in online social platforms and dynamic communication systems has made influence maximization a critical research area. Various diffusion models have been proposed to capture the spread of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Aaqib Zahoor , Iqra Altaf Gillani , Janibul Bashir

Influence maximization is a problem of finding a small set of highly influential users, also known as seeds, in a social network such that the spread of influence under certain propagation models is maximized. In this paper, we consider…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-07-14 Wei Chen , Wei Lu , Ning Zhang

Influence maximization is the task of finding k seed nodes in a social network such that the expected number of activated nodes in the network (under certain influence propagation model), referred to as the influence spread, is maximized.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Wei Chen , Ruihan Wu , Zheng Yu

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

The influence maximization (IM) problem as defined in the seminal paper by Kempe et al. has received widespread attention from various research communities, leading to the design of a wide variety of solutions. Unfortunately, this classical…

Databases · Computer Science 2017-09-28 Hui Li , Sourav S Bhowmick , Jiangtao Cui , Jianfeng Ma

The Influence Maximization (IM) problem aims at finding k seed vertices in a network, starting from which influence can be spread in the network to the maximum extent. In this paper, we propose QuickIM, the first versatile IM algorithm that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-01 Rong Zhu , Zhaonian Zou , Yue Han , Sheng Yang , Jianzhong Li

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

Given a social network G and a constant k, the influence maximization problem asks for k nodes in G that (directly and indirectly) influence the largest number of nodes under a pre-defined diffusion model. This problem finds important…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-05-02 Youze Tang , Xiaokui Xiao , Yanchen Shi

Identifying the most influential nodes in information networks has been the focus of many research studies. This problem has crucial applications in various contexts, such as controlling the propagation of viruses or rumours in real-world…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Ahmad Asgharian Rezaei , Justin Munoz , Mahdi Jalili , Hamid Khayyam

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

Online influence maximization aims to maximize the influence spread of a content in a social network with unknown network model by selecting a few seed nodes. Recent studies followed a non-adaptive setting, where the seed nodes are selected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Kaixuan Huang , Yu Wu , Xuezhou Zhang , Shenyinying Tu , Qingyun Wu , Mengdi Wang , Huazheng Wang