Given a social network, can we quickly 'zoom-out' of the graph? Is there a smaller equivalent representation of the graph that preserves its propagation characteristics? Can we group nodes together based on their influence properties? These are important problems with applications to influence analysis, epidemiology and viral marketing applications.
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Purohit et al. (2014) studied this question.
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