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Multi-Dimensional Balanced Graph Partitioning via Projected Gradient Descent

Data Structures and Algorithms 2019-02-19 v2 Databases Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing

Abstract

Motivated by performance optimization of large-scale graph processing systems that distribute the graph across multiple machines, we consider the balanced graph partitioning problem. Compared to the previous work, we study the multi-dimensional variant when balance according to multiple weight functions is required. As we demonstrate by experimental evaluation, such multi-dimensional balance is important for achieving performance improvements for typical distributed graph processing workloads. We propose a new scalable technique for the multidimensional balanced graph partitioning problem. The method is based on applying randomized projected gradient descent to a non-convex continuous relaxation of the objective. We show how to implement the new algorithm efficiently in both theory and practice utilizing various approaches for projection. Experiments with large-scale social networks containing up to hundreds of billions of edges indicate that our algorithm has superior performance compared with the state-of-the-art approaches.

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@article{arxiv.1902.03522,
  title  = {Multi-Dimensional Balanced Graph Partitioning via Projected Gradient Descent},
  author = {Dmitrii Avdiukhin and Sergey Pupyrev and Grigory Yaroslavtsev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.03522},
  year   = {2019}
}
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