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Influence Maximization: Near-Optimal Time Complexity Meets Practical Efficiency

Summary: TIM bridges theory and practice for influence maximization under IC, LT, and triggering models. Near-optimal O((k+l)(n+m) log n / e^2) time with (1-1/e - e)-approx and practical heuristics; scales to very large graphs on commodity hardware, beating prior guaranteed methods by orders of magnitude. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
hce56d86f0fc83ae5
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
2014
Pagerank
0.00025510476
Overall Rank
199 | 98.67%
DOI
10.1145/2588555.2593670

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{tang_sigmod14,
        title = {{Influence Maximization: Near-Optimal Time Complexity Meets Practical Efficiency}},
        author = {Tang, Youze and Xiao, Xiaokui and Shi, Yanchen},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '14},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2588555.2593670},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2588555.2593670},
        year = {2014}
}

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455 Stop-and-Stare: Optimal Sampling Algorithms for Viral Marketing in Billion-scale Networks 2016 SIGMOD 0.00017952418
1,474 Online Processing Algorithms for Influence Maximization 2018 SIGMOD 0.00010552001
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1,965 Holistic Influence Maximization: Combining Scalability and Efficiency with Opinion-Aware Models 2016 SIGMOD 9.3015421e-05
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4,655 Efficient Algorithms for Adaptive Influence Maximization 2018 VLDB 6.482094e-05
4,912 Revenue Maximization in Incentivized Social Advertising 2017 VLDB 6.3550704e-05
5,203 Pricing Influential Nodes in Online Social Networks 2020 VLDB 6.2287953e-05
5,304 Discovering Your Selling Points: Personalized Social Influential Tags Exploration 2017 SIGMOD 6.1867379e-05
5,390 GetReal: Towards Realistic Selection of Influence Maximization Strategies in Competitive Networks 2015 SIGMOD 6.1514814e-05
5,688 Efficient Approximation Algorithms for Adaptive Seed Minimization 2019 SIGMOD 6.0327812e-05
5,824 Continuous Influence Maximization: What Discounts Should We Offer to Social Network Users? 2016 SIGMOD 5.9793083e-05
5,872 The Solution Distribution of Influence Maximization: A High-level Experimental Study on Three Algorithmic Approaches 2020 SIGMOD 5.9610813e-05
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7,313 Collective Influence Maximization for Multiple Competing Products with an Awareness-to-Influence Model 2021 VLDB 5.5539717e-05
7,449 Analysis of Influence Contribution in Social Advertising 2022 VLDB 5.5221586e-05
7,592 Dynamic Influence Analysis in Evolving Networks 2016 VLDB 5.4870855e-05
7,596 Spheres of Influence for More Effective Viral Marketing 2016 SIGMOD 5.48564e-05
7,747 Towards Best Region Search for Data Exploration 2016 SIGMOD 5.4588605e-05
7,918 Triangular Stability Maximization by Influence Spread over Social Networks 2023 VLDB 5.4252033e-05
8,134 Coarsening Massive Influence Networks for Scalable Diffusion Analysis 2017 SIGMOD 5.3915448e-05
8,306 ThriftLLM: On Cost-Effective Selection of Large Language Models for Classification Queries 2025 VLDB 5.3581613e-05
8,380 Popularity Ratio Maximization: Surpassing Competitors through Influence Propagation 2023 SIGMOD 5.3413782e-05
8,503 Efficient Influence Minimization via Node Blocking 2024 VLDB 5.3276429e-05
8,610 Scapin: Scalable Graph Structure Perturbation by Augmented Influence Maximization 2023 SIGMOD 5.30241e-05
8,710 Community Level Diffusion Extraction 2015 SIGMOD 5.2880532e-05
8,967 Finding Seeds and Relevant Tags Jointly: For Targeted Influence Maximization in Social Networks 2018 SIGMOD 5.2479495e-05
8,988 Efficient and Effective Algorithms for Revenue Maximization in Social Advertising 2021 SIGMOD 5.2423984e-05
9,085 Efficient Approximation Algorithms for Minimum Cost Seed Selection with Probabilistic Coverage Guarantee 2024 SIGMOD 5.2258409e-05
9,424 Managing Conflicting Interests of Stakeholders in Influencer Marketing 2023 SIGMOD 5.1779852e-05
9,425 Minimum Vertex Augmentation 2021 VLDB 5.1779852e-05
9,960 Efficient and Effective Algorithms for A Family of Influence Maximization Problems with A Matroid Constraint 2025 VLDB 5.1014161e-05
9,969 Fast and Space-Efficient Parallel Algorithms for Influence Maximization 2024 VLDB 5.1014161e-05
10,038 Unconstrained Submodular Maximization with Modular Costs: Tight Approximation and Application to Profit Maximization 2021 VLDB 5.0901047e-05
10,611 Time-Critical Influence Minimization via Node Blocking 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,693 Robust Fair Influence Maximization under Multiple Community Partitions 2026 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
10,880 Efficient GPU-Accelerated Adaptive Minimum Cost Seed Selection 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,067 Augmenting Social Influence of Uncertain Seeds via Probabilistic Link Insertion 2026 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,560 Influence Maximization via Vertex Countering 2024 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
11,610 A Benchmark Study of Deep-RL Methods for Maximum Coverage Problems over Graphs 2024 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
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299 A Data-Based Approach to Social Influence Maximization 2012 VLDB 0.00021801848
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