{"title":"Influence maximization independent of seed set size","authors":"K. Lakshmanan","doi":"10.1016/j.orl.2025.107309","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Recent work on clean runtime algorithms for the submodular function maximization problem suggests that the dependence of the seed set size for Influence Maximization (IM) algorithms may not be necessary. This also has practical significance if the seed set is of moderate size. We propose a simple modification to Reverse Influence Sampling (RIS) algorithm of Borgs et al. to make its runtime independent of the seed set size while giving the same <span><math><mi>O</mi><mo>(</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>−</mo><mn>1</mn><mo>/</mo><mi>e</mi><mo>−</mo><mi>ϵ</mi><mo>)</mo></math></span>-approximation guarantee.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54682,"journal":{"name":"Operations Research Letters","volume":"62 ","pages":"Article 107309"},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2025-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Operations Research Letters","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167637725000707","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"OPERATIONS RESEARCH & MANAGEMENT SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Recent work on clean runtime algorithms for the submodular function maximization problem suggests that the dependence of the seed set size for Influence Maximization (IM) algorithms may not be necessary. This also has practical significance if the seed set is of moderate size. We propose a simple modification to Reverse Influence Sampling (RIS) algorithm of Borgs et al. to make its runtime independent of the seed set size while giving the same -approximation guarantee.
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