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Evaluating node influence is fundamental for identifying key nodes in complex networks. Existing methods typically rely on generic indicators to rank node influence across diverse networks, thereby ignoring the individualized features of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Bingyu Zhu , Qingyun Sun , Jianxin Li , Daqing Li

Influence maximization, fundamental for word-of-mouth marketing and viral marketing, aims to find a set of seed nodes maximizing influence spread on social network. Early methods mainly fall into two paradigms with certain benefits and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Suqi Cheng , Hua-Wei Shen , Junming Huang , Wei Chen , Xue-Qi Cheng

A serious challenge when finding influential actors in real-world social networks is the lack of knowledge about the structure of the underlying network. Current state-of-the-art methods rely on hand-crafted sampling algorithms; these…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Harshavardhan Kamarthi , Priyesh Vijayan , Bryan Wilder , Balaraman Ravindran , Milind Tambe

Influence maximization is the problem of selecting top $k$ seed nodes in a social network to maximize their influence coverage under certain influence diffusion models. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm IRIE that integrates a new…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-03-20 Kyomin Jung , Wooram Heo , Wei Chen

In this paper, we study the Budgeted Influence Maximization with Delay Problem, for which the number of literature are limited. We propose an approximate marginal spread computation\mbox{-}based approach for solving this problem. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Suman Banerjee , Mamata Jenamani , Dilip Kumar Pratihar

We study minimum entropy submodular optimization, a common generalization of the minimum entropy set cover problem, studied earlier by Cardinal et al., and the submodular set cover problem. We give a general bound of the approximation…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-19 Cosmin Bonchiş , Gabriel Istrate

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

We implement and test the performances of several approximation algorithms for computing the minimum dominating set of a graph. These algorithms are the standard greedy algorithm, the recent LP rounding algorithms and a hybrid algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-11 Jonathan S. Li , Rohan Potru , Farhad Shahrokhi

Influence propagation has been the subject of extensive study due to its important role in social networks, epidemiology, and many other areas. Understanding propagation mechanisms is critical to control the spread of fake news or…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Vinicius Ferreira , Artur Pessoa , Thibaut Vidal

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

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

We consider a class of discrete optimization problems that aim to maximize a submodular objective function subject to a distributed partition matroid constraint. More precisely, we consider a networked scenario in which multiple agents…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-11-19 Alexander Robey , Arman Adibi , Brent Schlotfeldt , George J. Pappas , Hamed Hassani

Due to its broad applications in practice, the minimum spanning tree problem and its all kinds of variations have been studied extensively during the last decades, for which a host of efficient exact and heuristic algorithms have been…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Yang Xu , Lianmin Zhang

We identify influential early adopters in a social network, where individuals are resource constrained, to maximize the spread of multiple, costly behaviors. A solution to this problem is especially important for viral marketing. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-08 Kaushik Sarkar , Hari Sundaram

We study the problem of online influence maximization in social networks. In this problem, a learner aims to identify the set of "best influencers" in a network by interacting with it, i.e., repeatedly selecting seed nodes and observing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Qingyun Wu , Zhige Li , Huazheng Wang , Wei Chen , Hongning Wang

Node classifiers are required to comprehensively reduce prediction errors, training resources, and inference latency in the industry. However, most graph neural networks (GNN) concentrate only on one or two of them. The compromised aspects…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Yi Luo , Guangchun Luo , Ke Qin , Aiguo Chen

Adversarial Influence Blocking Maximization (AIBM) aims to select a set of positive seed nodes that propagate synchronously with the known negative seed nodes to counteract their negative influence. Time factor plays a particularly vital…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Jilong Shi , Qiangpeng Fang , Xiaobin Rui , Jian Zhang , Zhixiao Wang

Influence maximization (IM) is an important topic in network science where a small seed set is chosen to maximize the spread of influence on a network. Recently, this problem has attracted attention on temporal networks where the network…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Eric Yanchenko , Tsuyoshi Murata , Petter Holme

We study the problem of robust influence maximization in dynamic diffusion networks. In line with recent works, we consider the scenario where the network can undergo insertion and removal of nodes and edges, in discrete time steps, and the…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Arkaprava Saha , Bogdan Cautis , Xiaokui Xiao , Laks V. S. Lakshmanan

With the rising importance of large-scale network control, the problem of actuator placement has received increasing attention. Our goal in this paper is to find a set of actuators minimizing the metric that measures the average energy…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-14 Baiwei Guo , Orcun Karaca , Tyler Summers , Maryam Kamgarpour