“Consider public health officials aiming to spread awareness about a new vaccine in a community interconnected by a social network. How can they distribute information with minimal resources, ensuring community-wide understanding that aligns with the actual facts? … In this paper, we initialize the study of sample complexity in opinion formation to solve this problem. … Intriguingly, we discover optimal strategies often allocate samples inversely to the degree, hinting at vital policy implications.”

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