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Viral marketing on social networks, also known as Influence Maximization (IM), aims to select k users for the promotion of a target item by maximizing the total spread of their influence. However, most previous works on IM do not explore…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Ya-Wen Teng , Yishuo Shi , Chih-Hua Tai , De-Nian Yang , Wang-Chien Lee , Ming-Syan Chen

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

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

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

Aiming at selecting a small subset of nodes with maximum influence on networks, the Influence Maximization (IM) problem has been extensively studied. Since it is #P-hard to compute the influence spread given a seed set, the state-of-the-art…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Tiantian Chen , Siwen Yan , Jianxiong Guo , Weili Wu

Influence Maximization (IM) aims to find a given number of "seed" vertices that can effectively maximize the expected spread under a given diffusion model. Due to the NP-Hardness of finding an optimal seed set, approximation algorithms are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-21 Gökhan Göktürk , Kamer Kaya

Given a social network with nonuniform selection cost of the users, the problem of \textit{Budgeted Influence Maximization} (BIM in short) asks for selecting a subset of the nodes within an allocated budget for initial activation, such that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Suman Banerjee , Mamata Jenamani , Dilip Kumar Pratihar

As a widely observable social effect, influence diffusion refers to a process where innovations, trends, awareness, etc. spread across the network via the social impact among individuals. Motivated by such social effect, the concept of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Liang 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

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

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

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 majority of influence maximization (IM) studies focus on targeting influential seeders to trigger substantial information spread in social networks. In this paper, we consider a new and complementary problem of how to further increase…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-27 Yishi Lin , Wei Chen , John C. S. Lui

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

Influence Maximization(IM) aims to identify highly influential nodes to maximize influence spread in a network. Previous research on the IM problem has mainly concentrated on single-layer networks, disregarding the comprehension of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-11-16 Su-Su Zhang , Ming Xie , Chuang Liu , Xiu-Xiu Zhan

Social connections are conduits through which individuals communicate, information propagates, and diseases spread. Identifying individuals who are more likely to adopt ideas and spread them is essential in order to develop effective…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Vedran Sekara , Ivan Dotu , Manuel Cebrian , Esteban Moro , Manuel Garcia-Herranz

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

The typical algorithmic problem in viral marketing aims to identify a set of influential users in a social network, who, when convinced to adopt a product, shall influence other users in the network and trigger a large cascade of adoptions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-17 Nan Du , Yingyu Liang , Maria Florina Balcan , Le Song

For the purpose of maximizing the spread of influence caused by a certain small number k of nodes in a social network, we are asked to find a k-subset of nodes (i.e., a seed set) with the best capacity to influence the nodes not in it. This…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Enqiang Zhu , Haosen Wang , Yu Zhang , Kai Zhang , Chanjuan Liu

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