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Influence Maximization (IM) aims to maximize the number of people that become aware of a product by finding the `best' set of `seed' users to initiate the product advertisement. Unlike prior arts on static social networks containing fixed…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Xudong Wu , Luoyi Fu , Zixin Zhang , Jingfan Meng , Xinbing Wang , Guihai Chen

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

Social networks represent nowadays in many contexts the main source of information transmission and the way opinions and actions are influenced. For instance, generic advertisements are way less powerful than suggestions from our contacts.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-05-03 Kateryna Konotopska , Giovanni Iacca

Influence maximization is the task of selecting a small number of seed nodes in a social network to maximize the influence spread from these seeds. It has been widely investigated in the past two decades. In the canonical setting, the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-02-21 Zhijie Zhang , Wei Chen , Xiaoming Sun , Jialin Zhang

Given a social network modeled as a weighted graph $G$, the influence maximization problem seeks $k$ vertices to become initially influenced, to maximize the expected number of influenced nodes under a particular diffusion model. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Soheil Shahrouz , Saber Salehkaleybar , Matin Hashemi

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

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

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

We initiate a systematic study on $\mathit{dynamic}$ $\mathit{influence}$ $\mathit{maximization}$ (DIM). In the DIM problem, one maintains a seed set $S$ of at most $k$ nodes in a dynamically involving social network, with the goal of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-12-30 Binghui Peng

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

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

Influence maximization is the problem of finding influential users, or nodes, in a graph so as to maximize the spread of information. It has many applications in advertising and marketing on social networks. In this paper, we study a highly…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-10-25 Paul Lagrée , Olivier Cappé , Bogdan Cautis , Silviu Maniu

Influence Maximization (IM) in temporal graphs focuses on identifying influential "seeds" that are pivotal for maximizing network expansion. We advocate defining these seeds through Influence Propagation Paths (IPPs), which is essential for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Laixin Xie , Ying Zhang , Xiyuan Wang , Shiyi Liu , Shenghan Gao , Xingxing Xing , Wei Wan , Haipeng Zhang , Quan Li

In this paper, we tackle a challenging problem inherent in a series of applications: tracking the influential nodes in dynamic networks. Specifically, we model a dynamic network as a stream of edge weight updates. This general model…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Yu Yang , Zhefeng Wang , Jian Pei , Enhong Chen

Influence maximization (IM) is the task of finding the most important nodes in order to maximize the spread of influence or information on a network. This task is typically studied on static or temporal networks where the complete topology…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Eric Yanchenko , Tsuyoshi Murata , Petter Holme

Network seeding for efficient information diffusion over time-varying graphs~(TVGs) is a challenging task with many real-world applications. There are several ways to model this spatio-temporal influence maximization problem, but the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Matheus R. F. Mendonça , André M. S. Barreto , Artur Ziviani

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

This survey presents the main results achieved for the influence maximization problem in social networks. This problem is well studied in the literature and, thanks to its recent applications, some of which currently deployed on the field,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Giuseppe De Nittis , Nicola Gatti

The problem of Profit Maximization asks to choose a limited number of influential users from a given social network such that the initial activation of these users maximizes the profit earned at the end of the diffusion process. This…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Poonam Sharma , Suman Banerjee

Dynamic influence maximization problem (DIMP) aims to maintain a group of influential users within an evolving social network, so that the influence scope can be maximized at any given moment. A primary category of DIMP algorithms focuses…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Shaofeng Zhang , Shengcai Liu , Ke Tang