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Most centralities proposed for identifying influential spreaders on social networks to either spread a message or to stop an epidemic require the full topological information of the network on which spreading occurs. In practice, however,…

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With great theoretical and practical significance, identifying the node spreading influence of complex network is one of the most promising domains. So far, various topology-based centrality measures have been proposed to identify the node…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-08-27 Jian-Hong Lin , Jian-Guo Liu , Qiang Guo

In recent years, the exploration of node centrality has received significant attention and extensive investigation, primarily fuelled by its applications in diverse domains such as product recommendations, opinion propagation, disease…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Renquan Zhang , Ting Wei , Yifan Sun , Sen Pei

Predicting user influence in social networks is a critical problem, and hypergraphs, as a prevalent higher-order modeling approach, provide new perspectives for this task. However, the absence of explicit cascade or infection probability…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Su-Su Zhang , JinFeng Xie , Yang Chen , Min Gao , Cong Li , Chuang Liu , Xiu-Xiu Zhan

Identifying influential nodes is crucial in social network analysis. Existing methods often neglect local opinion leader tendencies, resulting in overlapping influence ranges for seed nodes. Furthermore, approaches based on vanilla graph…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Ronghua Lin , Runbin Yao , Yijia Wang , Junjie Lin , Zhengyang Wu , Yong Tang

Numerous centrality measures have been proposed to evaluate the importance of nodes in networks, yet comparative analyses of these measures remain limited. Based on 80 real-world networks, we conducted an empirical analysis of 16…

Other Statistics · Statistics 2025-08-14 Yilin Bi , Xinshan Jiao , Tao Zhou

Identifying super-spreaders can be framed as a subtask of the influence maximisation problem. It seeks to pinpoint agents within a network that, if selected as single diffusion seeds, disseminate information most effectively. Multilayer…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Michał Czuba , Mateusz Stolarski , Adam Piróg , Piotr Bielak , Piotr Bródka

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

Influential nodes in complex networks are typically defined as those nodes that maximize the asymptotic reach of a spreading process of interest. However, for practical applications such as viral marketing and online information spreading,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-03-18 Fang Zhou , Linyuan Lü , Manuel Sebastian Mariani

Graph-based collaborative filtering (CF) algorithms have gained increasing attention. Existing work in this literature usually models the user-item interactions as a bipartite graph, where users and items are two isolated node sets and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Zekun Li , Yujia Zheng , Shu Wu , Xiaoyu Zhang , Liang Wang

Influence maximization in complex networks, i.e., maximizing the size of influenced nodes via selecting K seed nodes for a given spreading process, has attracted great attention in recent years. However, the influence maximization problem…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Ming Xie , Xiu-Xiu Zhan , Chuang Liu , Zi-Ke Zhang

Identifying influential spreaders in complex networks is a critical challenge in network science, with broad applications in disease control, information dissemination, and influence analysis in social networks. The gravity model, a…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Jiaxun Li , Yonghou He , Zhefan Dong , Li Tao

Recommender systems rely on Collaborative Filtering (CF) to predict user preferences by leveraging patterns in historical user-item interactions. While traditional CF methods primarily focus on learning compact vector embeddings for users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Darnbi Sakong , Thanh Trung Huynh , Jun Jo

From many datasets gathered in online social networks, well defined community structures have been observed. A large number of users participate in these networks and the size of the resulting graphs poses computational challenges. There is…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-01-15 Alexander V. Mantzaris

Finding the important nodes in complex networks by topological structure is of great significance to network invulnerability. Several centrality measures have been proposed recently to evaluate the performance of nodes based on their…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Pengli Lu , Chen Dong , Yuhong Guo

Networks are important structures used to model complex systems where interactions take place. In a basic network model, entities are represented as nodes, and interaction and relations among them are represented as edges. However, in a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Mehmet Emin Aktas , Esra Akbas

Several biological and social contagion phenomena, such as superspreading events or social reinforcement, are the results of multi-body interactions, for which hypergraphs offer a natural mathematical description. In this paper, we develop…

The identification of key nodes in complex networks is an important topic in many network science areas. It is vital to a variety of real-world applications, including viral marketing, epidemic spreading and influence maximization. In…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Mateusz Stolarski , Adam Piróg , Piotr Bródka

Hypergraphs provide an effective modeling approach for modeling high-order relationships in many real-world datasets. To capture such complex relationships, several hypergraph neural networks have been proposed for learning hypergraph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Rongping Ye , Xiaobing Pei , Haoran Yang , Ruiqi Wang

Identifying the most influential spreaders is an important issue in controlling the spreading processes in complex networks. Centrality measures are used to rank node influence in a spreading dynamics. Here we propose a node influence…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-23 Ying Liu , Ming Tang , Tao Zhou , Younghae Do