Before revision:  We adapt the combinatorial multi-armed bandit (CMAB) framework for the OCIM problem, but unlike the non-competitive setting, the important monotonicity property (influence spread increases when influence probabilities on edges increase) no longer holds due to the competitive nature of propagation, which brings a significant new challenge to the problem.
After revision:  We adapt a combinatorial multi-armed bandit (CMAB) framework for the OCIM problem, but unlike the non-competitive setting, the important monotonicity property (influence spread increases when influence probabilities on edges increase) no longer holds due to the competitive nature of propagation, which brings a significant new challenge to the problem.