Influence maximization in social networks using graph embedding and graph neural network

S Kumar, A Mallik, A Khetarpal, BS Panda - Information Sciences, 2022 - Elsevier
With the boom in technologies and mobile networks in recent years, online social networks
have become an integral part of our daily lives. These virtual networks connect people …

Influence maximization in social networks using transfer learning via graph-based LSTM

S Kumar, A Mallik, BS Panda - Expert Systems with Applications, 2023 - Elsevier
Social networks have emerged as efficient platforms to connect people worldwide and
facilitate the rapid spread of information. Identifying influential nodes in social networks to …

Deep Graph Representation Learning and Optimization for Influence Maximization

C Ling, J Jiang, J Wang, MT Thai… - International …, 2023 - proceedings.mlr.press
Influence maximization (IM) is formulated as selecting a set of initial users from a social
network to maximize the expected number of influenced users. Researchers have made …

Influence maximization in complex networks by using evolutionary deep reinforcement learning

L Ma, Z Shao, X Li, Q Lin, J Li… - … on Emerging Topics …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Influence maximization (IM) in complex networks tries to activate a small subset of seed
nodes that could maximize the propagation of influence. The studies on IM have attracted …

Determination of influential nodes based on the Communities' structure to maximize influence in social networks

F Kazemzadeh, AA Safaei, M Mirzarezaee, S Afsharian… - Neurocomputing, 2023 - Elsevier
With the increasing development of social networks, they have turned into important
research platforms. Influence maximization is one of the most important research issues in …

A survey on influence maximization: From an ml-based combinatorial optimization

Y Li, H Gao, Y Gao, J Guo, W Wu - ACM Transactions on Knowledge …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Influence Maximization (IM) is a classical combinatorial optimization problem, which can be
widely used in mobile networks, social computing, and recommendation systems. It aims at …

PIANO: Influence maximization meets deep reinforcement learning

H Li, M Xu, SS Bhowmick, JS Rayhan… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Since its introduction in 2003, the influence maximization (IM) problem has drawn significant
research attention in the literature. The aim of IM, which is NP-hard, is to select a set of k …

Contingency-aware influence maximization: A reinforcement learning approach

H Chen, W Qiu, HC Ou, B An… - Uncertainty in Artificial …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
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 …

Lense: Learning to navigate subgraph embeddings for large-scale combinatorial optimisation

D Ireland, G Montana - International Conference on Machine …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Combinatorial Optimisation problems arise in several application domains and are often
formulated in terms of graphs. Many of these problems are NP-hard, but exact solutions are …

Social-Inverse: Inverse Decision-making of Social Contagion Management with Task Migrations

G Tong - Advances in Neural Information Processing …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Considering two decision-making tasks $ A $ and $ B $, each of which wishes to compute
an effective decision $ Y $ for a given query $ X $, can we solve task $ B $ by using query …