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Since its introduction in 2003, the influence maximization (IM) problem has drawn significant research attention in the literature. The aim of IM is to select a set of k users who can influence the most individuals in the social network.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-06-19 Hui Li , Mengting Xu , Sourav S Bhowmick , Changsheng Sun , Zhongyuan Jiang , Jiangtao Cui

Given its vast application on online social networks, Influence Maximization (IM) has garnered considerable attention over the last couple of decades. Due to the intricacy of IM, most current research concentrates on estimating the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Zonghan Zhang , Zhiqian Chen

Influence Maximization (IM) aims at finding the most influential users in a social network, i. e., users who maximize the spread of an opinion within a certain propagation model. Previous work investigated the correlation between influence…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Mehmet Simsek , Henning Meyerhenke

Influence Maximization (IM) is the task of determining k optimal influential nodes in a social network to maximize the influence spread using a propagation model. IM is a prominent problem for viral marketing, and helps significantly in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Inder Khatri , Arjun Choudhry , Aryaman Rao , Aryan Tyagi , Dinesh Kumar Vishwakarma , Mukesh Prasad

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

We consider the problem of Influence Maximization (IM), the task of selecting $k$ seed nodes in a social network such that the expected number of nodes influenced is maximized. We propose a community-aware divide-and-conquer framework that…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Abhishek K. Umrawal , Christopher J. Quinn , Vaneet Aggarwal

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

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

The steady growth of graph data from social networks has resulted in wide-spread research in finding solutions to the influence maximization problem. In this paper, we propose a holistic solution to the influence maximization (IM) problem.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-02-10 Sainyam Galhotra , Akhil Arora , Shourya Roy

Influence maximization (IM) aims at maximizing the spread of influence by offering discounts to influential users (called seeding). In many applications, due to user's privacy concern, overwhelming network scale etc., it is hard to target…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Chen Feng , Luoyi Fu , Bo Jiang , Haisong Zhang , Xinbing Wang , Feilong Tang , Guihai Chen

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

Social networks are commonly used for marketing purposes. For example, free samples of a product can be given to a few influential social network users (or "seed nodes"), with the hope that they will convince their friends to buy it. One…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2019-01-17 Siyu Lei , Silviu Maniu , Luyi Mo , Reynold Cheng , Pierre Senellart

In social networks, individuals' decisions are strongly influenced by recommendations from their friends and acquaintances. The influence maximization (IM) problem asks to select a seed set of users that maximizes the influence spread,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Alessio Arleo , Walter Didimo , Giuseppe Liotta , Silvia Miksch , Fabrizio Montecchiani

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

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

Influence maximization (IM) is a representative and classic problem that has been studied extensively before. The most important application derived from the IM problem is viral marketing. Take us as a promoter, we want to get benefits from…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Jianxiong Guo , Yapu Zhang , Weili Wu

In social online platforms, identifying influential seed users to maximize influence spread is a crucial as it can greatly diminish the cost and efforts required for information dissemination. While effective, traditional methods for…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Huyen Nguyen , Hieu Dam , Nguyen Do , Cong Tran , Cuong Pham

Influence maximization (IM) aims to select a small number of nodes that are able to maximize their influence in a network and covers a wide range of applications. Despite numerous attempts to provide effective solutions in ordinary…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-10-25 Ming Xie , Xiu-Xiu Zhan , Chuang Liu , Zi-Ke Zhang

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 combinatorial problem of identifying a subset of nodes called the seed nodes in a network (graph), which when activated, provide a maximal spread of influence in the network for a given diffusion model and a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Sai Munikoti , Balasubramaniam Natarajan , Mahantesh Halappanavar