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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
0.00025945191
Overall Rank
187 | 98.75%
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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4,635 Efficient Algorithms for Adaptive Influence Maximization 2018 VLDB 6.4757053e-05
5,209 Pricing Influential Nodes in Online Social Networks 2020 VLDB 6.2146527e-05
5,322 Discovering Your Selling Points: Personalized Social Influential Tags Exploration 2017 SIGMOD 6.1663105e-05
5,395 GetReal: Towards Realistic Selection of Influence Maximization Strategies in Competitive Networks 2015 SIGMOD 6.135082e-05
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5,849 The Solution Distribution of Influence Maximization: A High-level Experimental Study on Three Algorithmic Approaches 2020 SIGMOD 5.9530603e-05
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6,537 Analysis of Influence Contribution in Social Advertising 2022 VLDB 5.7352831e-05
7,316 Collective Influence Maximization for Multiple Competing Products with an Awareness-to-Influence Model 2021 VLDB 5.5415122e-05
7,604 Dynamic Influence Analysis in Evolving Networks 2016 VLDB 5.4703743e-05
7,613 Spheres of Influence for More Effective Viral Marketing 2016 SIGMOD 5.4675059e-05
7,761 Towards Best Region Search for Data Exploration 2016 SIGMOD 5.4408101e-05
7,933 Triangular Stability Maximization by Influence Spread over Social Networks 2023 VLDB 5.4072642e-05
8,073 Coarsening Massive Influence Networks for Scalable Diffusion Analysis 2017 SIGMOD 5.3795016e-05
8,320 ThriftLLM: On Cost-Effective Selection of Large Language Models for Classification Queries 2025 VLDB 5.3404439e-05
8,398 Popularity Ratio Maximization: Surpassing Competitors through Influence Propagation 2023 SIGMOD 5.3237162e-05
8,519 Efficient Influence Minimization via Node Blocking 2024 VLDB 5.3100264e-05
8,628 Scapin: Scalable Graph Structure Perturbation by Augmented Influence Maximization 2023 SIGMOD 5.2848769e-05
8,730 Community Level Diffusion Extraction 2015 SIGMOD 5.2705676e-05
8,846 Fast and Space-Efficient Parallel Algorithms for Influence Maximization 2024 VLDB 5.2498988e-05
8,986 Finding Seeds and Relevant Tags Jointly: For Targeted Influence Maximization in Social Networks 2018 SIGMOD 5.2311279e-05
9,007 Efficient and Effective Algorithms for Revenue Maximization in Social Advertising 2021 SIGMOD 5.2250638e-05
9,106 Efficient Approximation Algorithms for Minimum Cost Seed Selection with Probabilistic Coverage Guarantee 2024 SIGMOD 5.208561e-05
9,452 Managing Conflicting Interests of Stakeholders in Influencer Marketing 2023 SIGMOD 5.1608635e-05
9,453 Minimum Vertex Augmentation 2021 VLDB 5.1608635e-05
9,692 Efficient Algorithm for Budgeted Adaptive Influence Maximization: An Incremental RR-set Update Approach 2023 SIGMOD 5.1258854e-05
9,993 Efficient and Effective Algorithms for A Family of Influence Maximization Problems with A Matroid Constraint 2025 VLDB 5.0845476e-05
10,077 Unconstrained Submodular Maximization with Modular Costs: Tight Approximation and Application to Profit Maximization 2021 VLDB 5.0732737e-05
10,381 Approximating Contribution in Misinformation Mitigation 2027 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,384 Break Iteration Barrier: Parallelize Priority-Based Graph Processing 2027 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,672 Time-Critical Influence Minimization via Node Blocking 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,754 Robust Fair Influence Maximization under Multiple Community Partitions 2026 SIGMOD 4.9605343e-05
10,941 Efficient GPU-Accelerated Adaptive Minimum Cost Seed Selection 2026 VLDB 4.9605343e-05
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290 A Data-Based Approach to Social Influence Maximization 2012 VLDB 0.00021935235
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