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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…
Approximate Closest Community Search in Networks
Xin Huang, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Jeffrey Xu Yu +1
Recently, there has been significant interest in the study of the community search problem in social and information networks: given one or more query nodes, find densely connected…
From Group Recommendations to Group Formation
Senjuti Basu Roy, Laks V. S. Lakshmanan, Rui Liu
There has been significant recent interest in the area of group recommendations, where, given groups of users of a recommender system, one wants to recommend top-k items to a group…
Influence Maximization with Bandits
Sharan Vaswani, Laks. V. S. Lakshmanan, Mark Schmidt
We consider the problem of \emph{influence maximization}, the problem of maximizing the number of people that become aware of a product by finding the `best' set of `seed' users to…