Augmenting Social Influence of Uncertain Seeds via Probabilistic Link Insertion

Summary: Proposes IMAUS: insert L links incident to probabilistically-activated (“uncertain”) seeds to boost diffusion under uncertain seeding. Handles the NP-hard, non-submodular objective via sandwiching two submodular bounds, RIS-based unbiased estimators and greedy (1-1/e-ε)-approx algorithms with shared sampling for billion-edge scalability. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Mar 13 2026)

Paper ID: 14356
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2026
Pagerank: 4.1945683e-05
Overall Rank: 10,313 | 28.26%
DOI: 10.14778/3785297.3785314

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1. Xiaolong Chen
2. Jing Tang

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