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Collaborative Contextual Bayesian Optimization
Chih-Yu Chang, Qiyuan Chen, Tianhan Gao +5
Discovering optimal designs through sequential data collection is essential in many real-world applications. While Bayesian Optimization (BO) has achieved remarkable success in thi…
Refutations on "Debunking the Myths of Influence Maximization: An In-Depth Benchmarking Study"
Wei Lu, Xiaokui Xiao, Amit Goyal +2
In a recent SIGMOD paper titled "Debunking the Myths of Influence Maximization: An In-Depth Benchmarking Study", Arora et al. [1] undertake a performance benchmarking study of seve…
Revenue Maximization in Incentivized Social Advertising
Cigdem Aslay, Francesco Bonchi, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan +1
Incentivized social advertising, an emerging marketing model, provides monetization opportunities not only to the owners of the social networking platforms but also to their influe…
From Competition to Complementarity: Comparative Influence Diffusion and Maximization
Wei Lu, Wei Chen, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan
Influence maximization is a well-studied problem that asks for a small set of influential users from a social network, such that by targeting them as early adopters, the expected t…
Viral Marketing Meets Social Advertising: Ad Allocation with Minimum Regret
Cigdem Aslay, Wei Lu, Francesco Bonchi +2
In this paper, we study the problem of allocating ads to users through the viral-marketing lens. Advertisers approach the host with a budget in return for the marketing campaign se…
Show Me the Money: Dynamic Recommendations for Revenue Maximization
Wei Lu, Shanshan Chen, Keqian Li +1
Recommender Systems (RS) play a vital role in applications such as e-commerce and on-demand content streaming. Research on RS has mainly focused on the customer perspective, i.e.,…
Profit Maximization over Social Networks
Wei Lu, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan
Influence maximization is the problem of finding a set of influential users in a social network such that the expected spread of influence under a certain propagation model is maxi…
Time-Critical Influence Maximization in Social Networks with Time-Delayed Diffusion Process
Wei Chen, Wei Lu, Ning Zhang
Influence maximization is a problem of finding a small set of highly influential users, also known as seeds, in a social network such that the spread of influence under certain pro…