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Graph sampling allows mining a small representative subgraph from a big graph. Sampling algorithms deploy different strategies to replicate the properties of a given graph in the sampled graph. In this study, we provide a comprehensive…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Muhammad Irfan Yousuf , Izza Anwer , Raheel Anwar

This paper introduces new techniques for sampling attributed networks to support standard Data Mining tasks. The problem is important for two reasons. First, it is commonplace to perform data mining tasks such as clustering and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Suhansanu Kumar , Hari Sundaram

The focus of this work is on estimation of the in-degree distribution in directed networks from sampling network nodes or edges. A number of sampling schemes are considered, including random sampling with and without replacement, and…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-10-03 Nelson Antunes , Shankar Bhamidi , Tianjian Guo , Vladas Pipiras , Bang Wang

In the past few years, the storage and analysis of large-scale and fast evolving networks present a great challenge. Therefore, a number of different techniques have been proposed for sampling large networks. In general, network exploration…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-06-10 Neli Blagus , Lovro Šubelj , Marko Bajec

Gradient descent methods and especially their stochastic variants have become highly popular in the last decade due to their efficiency on big data optimization problems. In this thesis we present the development of data sampling strategies…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-04-03 Dominik Csiba

This paper is a tutorial and literature review on sampling algorithms. We have two main types of sampling in statistics. The first type is survey sampling which draws samples from a set or population. The second type is sampling from…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-11-03 Benyamin Ghojogh , Hadi Nekoei , Aydin Ghojogh , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

The diffusion phenomenon has a remarkable impact on Online Social Networks (OSNs). Gathering diffusion data over these large networks encounters many challenges which can be alleviated by adopting a suitable sampling approach. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-05-29 Motahareh Eslami Mehdiabadi , Hamid R. Rabiee , Mostafa Salehi

This article aims at summarizing the existing methods for sampling social networking services and proposing a faster confidence interval for related sampling methods. It also includes comparisons of common network sampling techniques.

Applications · Statistics 2013-02-21 Baiyang Wang

Given a valued graph, where both the nodes and the edges of the graph are associated with one or several values, any network function for a given node must be defined in terms of that node and its connected nodes in the graph. Generally,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Li-Chun Zhang

Most sampling techniques for online social networks (OSNs) are based on a particular sampling method on a single graph, which is referred to as a statistics. However, various realizing methods on different graphs could possibly be used in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-12-21 Xin Wang , Richard T. B. Ma , Yinlong Xu , Zhipeng Li

Network (or graph) sparsification compresses a graph by removing inessential edges. By reducing the data volume, it accelerates or even facilitates many downstream analyses. Still, the accuracy of many sparsification methods, with…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Zhen Su , Jürgen Kurths , Henning Meyerhenke

Thresholding--the pruning of nodes or edges based on their properties or weights--is an essential preprocessing tool for extracting interpretable structure from complex network data, yet existing methods face several key limitations.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Adam Schroeder , Russell Funk , Jingyi Guan , Taylor Okonek , Lori Ziegelmeier

We discuss two sampling schemes for selecting random subnets from a network: Random sampling and connectivity dependent sampling, and investigate how the degree distribution of a node in the network is affected by the two types of sampling.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael P. H. Stumpf , Carsten Wiuf

Many real-world networks exhibit correlations between the node degrees. For instance, in social networks nodes tend to connect to nodes of similar degree. Conversely, in biological and technological networks, high-degree nodes tend to be…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-09-30 Kevin E. Bassler , Charo I. Del Genio , Péter L. Erdős , István Miklós , Zoltán Toroczkai

Sampling methods (e.g., node-wise, layer-wise, or subgraph) has become an indispensable strategy to speed up training large-scale Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). However, existing sampling methods are mostly based on the graph structural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Weilin Cong , Rana Forsati , Mahmut Kandemir , Mehrdad Mahdavi

Recent works have proposed optimal subsampling algorithms to improve computational efficiency in large datasets and to design validation studies in the presence of measurement error. Existing approaches generally fall into two categories:…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-25 Jasper B. Yang , Thomas Lumley , Bryan E. Shepherd , Pamela A. Shaw

Reconstructing weighted networks from partial information is necessary in many important circumstances, e.g. for a correct estimation of systemic risk. It has been shown that, in order to achieve an accurate reconstruction, it is crucial to…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-03-07 Tiziano Squartini , Giulio Cimini , Andrea Gabrielli , Diego Garlaschelli

Subsampling methods aim to select a subsample as a surrogate for the observed sample. As a powerful technique for large-scale data analysis, various subsampling methods are developed for more effective coefficient estimation and model…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-05-05 Tao Li , Cheng Meng

Data collection costs can vary widely across variables in data science tasks. Two-phase designs can be employed to save data collection costs. This paper considers the two-phase studies where inexpensive variables are collected for all…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-04 Ruoyu Wang , Qihua Wang , Wang Miao

Characterizing large online social networks (OSNs) through node querying is a challenging task. OSNs often impose severe constraints on the query rate, hence limiting the sample size to a small fraction of the total network. Various ad-hoc…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-11-14 Pinghui Wang , Bruno Ribeiro , Junzhou Zhao , John C. S. Lui , Don Towsley , Xiaohong Guan