Efficient Influence Minimization via Node Blocking

Summary: First data-dependent approximation framework for Influence Minimization via node blocking: derive submodular monotone lower/upper bounds via a Sandwich framework and prove computing those bounds is #P-hard. Introduce advanced sampling and martingale-based concentration to cut sample complexity and deliver (1-1/e-ε)-approx algorithms for the bounds, achieving up to two orders of magnitude speedup in experiments. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 13476
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2024
Pagerank: 4.427232e-05
Overall Rank: 8,903 | 38.07%
DOI: 10.14778/3675034.3675042

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180	Influence Maximization: Near-Optimal Time Complexity Meets Practical Efficiency	2014	SIGMOD	0.00037135181
337	Influence Maximization in Near-Linear Time: A Martingale Approach	2015	SIGMOD	0.00027011645
436	Stop-and-Stare: Optimal Sampling Algorithms for Viral Marketing in Billion-scale Networks	2016	SIGMOD	0.00023259324
1,801	Online Processing Algorithms for Influence Maximization	2018	SIGMOD	0.00010510943
2,371	From Competition to Complementarity: Comparative Influence Diffusion and Maximization	2016	VLDB	8.9482922e-05
4,220	Revisiting the Stop-and-Stare Algorithms for Influence Maximization	2017	VLDB	6.3493792e-05
5,078	Efficient Location-Aware Influence Maximization	2014	SIGMOD	5.715243e-05
6,669	Influence Maximization in Real-World Closed Social Networks	2023	VLDB	4.9677027e-05
7,267	Misinformation Mitigation under Differential Propagation Rates and Temporal Penalties	2022	VLDB	4.7819966e-05
7,798	Triangular Stability Maximization by Influence Spread over Social Networks	2023	VLDB	4.6482149e-05

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