Efficient influence maximization under network uncertainty
Efficient influence maximization under network uncertainty
We consider the influence maximization (IM) problem in a partially visible social network. The goal is to design a decision-making framework for an autonomous agent to select a limited set of influential seed nodes to spread a message as widely as possible across the network. We consider the realistic case where only a partial section of the network is visible to the agent, while the rest is one of a finite set of known structures, each with a given realization probability. We show that solving the IM problem in this setting is NP-hard, and we provide analytical guarantees for the performance of a novel computationally-efficient seed-selection approximation algorithm for the agent. In empirical experiments on real-world social networks, we demonstrate the efficiency of our scheme and show that it outperforms state-of-the-art approaches that do not model the uncertainty.
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Eshghi, Soheil
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23 September 2019
Eshghi, Soheil
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Maghsudi, Setareh
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Stein, Sebastian
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Eshghi, Soheil, Maghsudi, Setareh, Restocchi, Valerio, Stein, Sebastian and Tassiulas, Leandros
(2019)
Efficient influence maximization under network uncertainty.
In First International INFOCOM Workshop on Communications and Networking Aspects of Online Social Networks (IEEE CAOS 2019).
IEEE.
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(doi:10.1109/INFCOMW.2019.8845088).
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Abstract
We consider the influence maximization (IM) problem in a partially visible social network. The goal is to design a decision-making framework for an autonomous agent to select a limited set of influential seed nodes to spread a message as widely as possible across the network. We consider the realistic case where only a partial section of the network is visible to the agent, while the rest is one of a finite set of known structures, each with a given realization probability. We show that solving the IM problem in this setting is NP-hard, and we provide analytical guarantees for the performance of a novel computationally-efficient seed-selection approximation algorithm for the agent. In empirical experiments on real-world social networks, we demonstrate the efficiency of our scheme and show that it outperforms state-of-the-art approaches that do not model the uncertainty.
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Accepted/In Press date: 22 February 2019
e-pub ahead of print date: 29 April 2019
Published date: 23 September 2019
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First International INFOCOM Workshop on Communications and Networking Aspects of Online Social Networks (IEEE CAOS 2019), , Paris, France, 2019-04-29 - 2019-05-02
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Setareh Maghsudi
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Valerio Restocchi
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Sebastian Stein
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Leandros Tassiulas
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