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Recently there has been much interest in graph-based learning, with applications in collaborative filtering for recommender networks, link prediction for social networks and fraud detection. These networks can consist of millions of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-06-26 Purnamrita Sarkar , Andrew Moore

Graph vertex embeddings based on random walks have become increasingly influential in recent years, showing good performance in several tasks as they efficiently transform a graph into a more computationally digestible format while…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-07-22 Dominik Kloepfer , Angelica I. Aviles-Rivero , Daniel Heydecker

Sampling is a standard approach in big-graph analytics; the goal is to efficiently estimate the graph properties by consulting a sample of the whole population. A perfect sample is assumed to mirror every property of the whole population.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-03-18 Nesreen K. Ahmed , Nick Duffield , Jennifer Neville , Ramana Kompella

Our objective is to sample the node set of a large unknown graph via crawling, to accurately estimate a given metric of interest. We design a random walk on an appropriately defined weighted graph that achieves high efficiency by…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-03-29 M. Kurant , M. Gjoka , C. T. Butts , A. Markopoulou

In order to efficiently study the characteristics of network domains and support development of network systems (e.g. algorithms, protocols that operate on networks), it is often necessary to sample a representative subgraph from a large…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Nesreen K. Ahmed , Jennifer Neville , Ramana Kompella

Estimating characteristics of large graphs via sampling is a vital part of the study of complex networks. Current sampling methods such as (independent) random vertex and random walks are useful but have drawbacks. Random vertex sampling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-09-08 Bruno Ribeiro , Don Towsley

Graph Sampling provides an efficient yet inexpensive solution for analyzing large graphs. While extracting small representative subgraphs from large graphs, the challenge is to capture the properties of the original graph. Several sampling…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-21 Muhammad Irfan Yousuf , Raheel Anwar

This report presents a very simple algorithm for overlaping community-detection in large graphs under constraints such as the minimum and maximum number of members allowed. The algorithm is based on the simulation of random walks and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-05-12 Luis Argerich

Previous work has shown the effectiveness of random walk hitting times as a measure of dissimilarity in a variety of graph-based learning problems such as collaborative filtering, query suggestion or finding paraphrases. However,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-17 Joel Lang , James Henderson

Social graphs can be easily extracted from Online Social Networks. However these networks are getting larger from day to day. Sampling methods used to evaluate graph information cannot accurately extract graph properties. Furthermore Social…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-01-17 Giannis Haralabopoulos , Ioannis Anagnostopoulos

We introduce in this paper a new summarization method for large graphs. Our summarization approach retains only a user-specified proportion of the neighbors of each node in the graph. Our main aim is to simplify large graphs so that they…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Abd Errahmane Kiouche , Julien Baste , Mohammed Haddad , Hamida Seba

Random walk centrality is a fundamental metric in graph mining for quantifying node importance and influence, defined as the weighted average of hitting times to a node from all other nodes. Despite its ability to capture rich graph…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Changan Liu , Zixuan Xie , Ahad N. Zehmakan , Zhongzhi Zhang

Graph partition is a fundamental problem of parallel computing for big graph data. Many graph partition algorithms have been proposed to solve the problem in various applications, such as matrix computations and PageRank, etc., but none has…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-01-05 Xiaoming Liu , Yadong Zhou , Xiaohong Guan

Uniform sampling from graphical realizations of a given degree sequence is a fundamental component in simulation-based measurements of network observables, with applications ranging from epidemics, through social networks to Internet…

Physics and Society · Physics 2010-04-14 Charo I. Del Genio , Hyunju Kim , Zoltan Toroczkai , Kevin E. Bassler

We present new, more efficient algorithms for estimating random walk scores such as Personalized PageRank from a given source node to one or several target nodes. These scores are useful for personalized search and recommendations on…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Peter Lofgren

Large scale complex systems, such as social networks, electrical power grid, database structure, consumption pattern or brain connectivity, are often modeled using network graphs. Valuable insight can be gained by measuring the similarity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-01 Callum Schofield , Jingbo B. Wang , Yuying Li

Dense subgraphs of sparse graphs (communities), which appear in most real-world complex networks, play an important role in many contexts. Computing them however is generally expensive. We propose here a measure of similarities between…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-10-13 Matthieu Latapy , Pascal Pons

Random walk-based sampling methods are gaining popularity and importance in characterizing large networks. While powerful, they suffer from the slow mixing problem when the graph is loosely connected, which results in poor estimation…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Junzhou Zhao , Pinghui Wang , John C. S. Lui , Don Towsley , Xiaohong Guan

Processing large complex networks recently attracted considerable interest. Complex graphs are useful in a wide range of applications from technological networks to biological systems like the human brain. Sometimes these networks are…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Christian Schulz

We consider the problem of sampling from data defined on the nodes of a weighted graph, where the edge weights capture the data correlation structure. As shown recently, using spectral graph theory one can define a cut-off frequency for the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-13 Ilan Shomorony , A. Salman Avestimehr