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Poster

Efficient Streaming Algorithms for Graphlet Sampling

Yann Bourreau · Marco Bressan · T-H. Hubert Chan · Qipeng Kuang · Mauro Sozio

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Thu 12 Dec 4:30 p.m. PST — 7:30 p.m. PST

Abstract: Given a graph $G$ and a positive integer $k$, the Graphlet Sampling problem asks to sample a connected induced $k$-vertex subgraph of $G$ uniformly at random. A recent work has shown that the problem admits an algorithm that preprocesses $G$ in time $O(nk^2 \log k + m)$, and draws one sample in expected time $k^{O(k)} \log n$, where $n=|V(G)|$ and $m=|E(G)|$. Such an algorithm relies on the assumption that the input graph fits into main memory and it does not seem to be straightforward to adapt it to very large graphs. We consider Graphlet Sampling in the semi-streaming setting, where we have a memory of $M = \Omega(n \log n)$ words, and $G$ can be only read through sequential passes over the edge list. We develop a semi-streaming algorithm that preprocesses $G$ in $p={O}(\log n)$ passes and samples $\Theta(M k^{-O(k)})$ independent uniform $k$-graphlets in $O(k)$ passes. For constant $k$, both phases run in time $O((n+m)\log n)$. We also show that the tradeoff between memory and number of passes of our algorithms is near-optimal. Our extensive evaluation on very large graphs shows the effectiveness of our algorithms.

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