
doi: 10.1145/3408315
Viral marketing campaigns are often negatively affected by overexposure. Overexposure occurs when users become less likely to favor a promoted product after receiving information about the product from too large a fraction of their friends. Yet, existing influence diffusion models do not take overexposure into account, effectively overestimating the number of users who favor the product and diffuse information about it. In this work, we propose the first influence diffusion model that captures overexposure. In our model, Latency Aware Independent Cascade Model with Overexposure (LAICO), the activation probability of a node representing a user is multiplied (discounted) by an overexposure score, which is calculated based on the ratio between the estimated and the maximum possible number of attempts performed to activate the node. We also study the influence maximization problem under LAICO. Since the spread function in LAICO is non-submodular, algorithms for submodular maximization are not appropriate to address the problem. Therefore, we develop an approximation algorithm that exploits monotone submodular upper and lower bound functions of spread, and a heuristic that aims to maximize a proxy function of spread iteratively. Our experiments show the effectiveness and efficiency of our algorithms.
| selected citations These citations are derived from selected sources. This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | 8 | |
| popularity This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network. | Top 10% | |
| influence This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | Average | |
| impulse This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network. | Average |
