Time-Critical Influence Minimization via Node Blocking

Summary: Introduces time-critical influence minimization (TCIM): blocking nodes to minimize deadline-aware, duration-sensitive spread; proves TCIM is NP-/APX-hard and the objective non-submodular. Proposes CBFM with tau(1-1/e-ε) approximation w.h.p via novel concentration bounds and an assumption-free extension to misinformation mitigation, achieving orders-of-magnitude speedups in experiments. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 11 2026)

Paper ID: 7430
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2026
Pagerank: 4.1945683e-05
Overall Rank: 10,120 | 29.60%
DOI: 10.1145/3769834

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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
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4,220	Revisiting the Stop-and-Stare Algorithms for Influence Maximization	2017	VLDB	6.3493792e-05
7,267	Misinformation Mitigation under Differential Propagation Rates and Temporal Penalties	2022	VLDB	4.7819966e-05
8,903	Efficient Influence Minimization via Node Blocking	2024	VLDB	4.427232e-05
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