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Influence Maximization (IM), which aims to select a set of users from a social network to maximize the expected number of influenced users, has recently received significant attention for mass communication and commercial marketing.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-12 Taotao Cai , Qi Lei , Quan Z. Sheng , Shuiqiao Yang , Jian Yang , Wei Emma Zhang

Social networks, due to their popularity, have been studied extensively these years. A rich body of these studies is related to influence maximization, which aims to select a set of seed nodes for maximizing the expected number of active…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-10-14 Zhefeng Wang , Enhong Chen , Qi Liu , Yu Yang , Yong Ge , Biao Chang

We consider the problem of predicting the time evolution of influence, the expected number of activated nodes, given a set of initially active nodes on a propagation network. To address the significant computational challenges of this…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-10 Shui-Nee Chow , Xiaojing Ye , Hongyuan Zha , Haomin Zhou

We consider the problem of selecting a minimum size subset of nodes in a network, that allows to activate all the nodes of the network. We present a fast and simple algorithm that, in real-life networks, produces solutions that outperform…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Gennaro Cordasco , Luisa Gargano , Adele Anna Rescigno

Influence maximization is a widely used model for information dissemination in social networks. Recent work has employed such interventions across a wide range of social problems, spanning public health, substance abuse, and international…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Alan Tsang , Bryan Wilder , Eric Rice , Milind Tambe , Yair Zick

We study the task of selecting $k$ nodes, in a social network of size $n$, to seed a diffusion with maximum expected spread size, under the independent cascade model with cascade probability $p$. Most of the previous work on this problem…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Dean Eckles , Hossein Esfandiari , Elchanan Mossel , M. Amin Rahimian

Motivated by applications such as viral marketing, the problem of influence maximization (IM) has been extensively studied in the literature. The goal is to select a small number of users to adopt an item such that it results in a large…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Prithu Banerjee , Wei Chen , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

The Influence Maximization problem under the Independent Cascade model (IC) is considered. The problem asks for a minimal set of vertices to serve as "seed set" from which a maximum influence propagation is expected. New seed-set selection…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Faisal N. Abu-Khzam , Ghinwa Bou Matar , Sergio Thoumi

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

Propagation of contagion through networks is a fundamental process. It is used to model the spread of information, influence, or a viral infection. Diffusion patterns can be specified by a probabilistic model, such as Independent Cascade…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-28 Edith Cohen , Daniel Delling , Thomas Pajor , Renato F. Werneck

In this paper we analyze influence maximization in the voter model with an active strategic and a passive influencing party in non-stationary settings. We thus explore the dependence of optimal influence allocation on the time horizons of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2018-10-08 Markus Brede , Valerio Restocchi , Sebastian Stein

We study the effectiveness of using multiple phases for maximizing the extent of information diffusion through a social network, and present insights while considering various aspects. In particular, we focus on the independent cascade…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Swapnil Dhamal

Time plays an essential role in the diffusion of information, influence and disease over networks. In many cases we only observe when a node copies information, makes a decision or becomes infected -- but the connectivity, transmission…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-05-05 Manuel Gomez Rodriguez , David Balduzzi , Bernhard Schölkopf

The influence maximization paradigm has been used by researchers in various fields in order to study how information spreads in social networks. While previously the attention was mostly on efficiency, more recently fairness issues have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Ruben Becker , Gianlorenzo D'Angelo , Sajjad Ghobadi , Hugo Gilbert

Given a hypergraph, influence maximization (IM) is to discover a seed set containing $k$ vertices that have the maximal influence. Although the existing vertex-based IM algorithms perform better than the hyperedge-based algorithms by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Lingling Zhang , Hong Jiang , Ye Yuan , Guoren Wang

Diffusion is a fundamental graph process, underpinning such phenomena as epidemic disease contagion and the spread of innovation by word-of-mouth. We address the algorithmic problem of finding a set of k initial seed nodes in a network so…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-06-23 Christian Borgs , Michael Brautbar , Jennifer Chayes , Brendan Lucier

Many real-world applications based on spreading processes in complex networks aim to deliver information to specific target nodes. However, it remains challenging to optimally select a set of spreaders to initiate the spreading process. In…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-08-15 Renquan Zhang , Xiaolin Wang , Sen Pei

A typical viral marketing model identifies influential users in a social network to maximize a single product adoption assuming unlimited user attention, campaign budgets, and time. In reality, multiple products need campaigns, users have…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Nan Du , Yingyu Liang , Maria-Florina Balcan , Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez , Hongyuan Zha , Le Song

The Influence Maximization (IM) problem aims to select a set of seed nodes within a given budget to maximize the spread of influence in a social network. However, real-world social networks have several structural inequalities, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Akrati Saxena , Harshith Kumar Yadav , Bart Rutten , Shashi Shekhar Jha

Various types of promising techniques have come into being for influence maximization whose aim is to identify influential nodes in complex networks. In essence, real-world applications usually have high requirements on the balance between…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Yi Liu , Xiaoan Tang , Witold Pedrycz , Qiang Zhang