Random walk with restart over dynamic graphs
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Accepted version
Author(s)
Yu, W
McCann, J
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
Random Walk with Restart (RWR) is an appealing measure of proximity between nodes based on graph structures. Since real graphs are often large and subject to minor changes, it is prohibitively expensive to recompute proximities from scratch. Previous methods use LU decomposition and degree reordering heuristics, entailing O(|V |3) time and O(|V |2) memory to compute all (|V |2) pairs of node proximities in a static graph. In this paper, a dynamic scheme to assess RWR proximities is proposed: (1) For unit update, we characterize the changes to all-pairs proximities as the outer product of two vectors. We notice that the multiplication of an RWR matrix and its transition matrix, unlike traditional matrix multiplications, is commutative. This can greatly reduce the computation of all-pairs proximities from O(|V |3) to O(|Δ|) time for each update without loss of accuracy, where |Δ| (≪ |V |2) is the number of affected proximities. (2) To avoid O(|V |2) memory for all pairs of outputs, we also devise efficient partitioning techniques for our dynamic model, which can compute all pairs of proximities segment-wisely within O(l|V |) memory and O(⌈ |V | l ⌉) I/O costs, where 1 ≤ l ≤ |V | is a user-controlled trade-off between memory and I/O costs. (3) For bulk updates, we also devise aggregation and hashing methods, which can discard many unnecessary updates further and handle chunks of unit updates simultaneously. Our experimental results on various datasets demonstrate that our methods can be 1-2 orders of magnitude faster than other competitors while securing scalability and exactness.
Date Issued
2017-02-02
Date Acceptance
2016-12-12
Citation
2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM), 2017, pp.589-598
ISBN
9781509054725
ISSN
2374-8486
Publisher
IEEE
Start Page
589
End Page
598
Journal / Book Title
2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
Copyright Statement
© 2017 IEEE.
Sponsor
NEC Corporation
NEC Research Institute Inc
Grant Number
N/A
Yuichi Nakamura
Source
2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2016-12-12
Finish Date
2016-12-15