AuthorsJ. Langguth, A. Tumanis and A. Azad
TitleIncremental Clustering Algorithms for Massive Dynamic Graphs
AfilliationScientific Computing, Machine Learning
Project(s)Department of High Performance Computing , Enabling Graph Neural Networks at Exascale
StatusPublished
Publication TypeProceedings, refereed
Year of Publication2021
Conference NameInternational Conference on Data Mining Workshops (ICDMW)
Pagination360-369
Date Published12/2021
PublisherIEEE
Place PublishedAuckland, New Zealand
ISBN Number978-1-6654-2427-1
ISSN Number2375-9259
Abstract

We consider the problem of incremental graph clustering where the graph to be clustered is given as a sequence of disjoint subsets of the edge set. The problem appears when dealing with graphs that are created over time, such as online social networks where new users appear continuously, or protein interaction networks when new proteins are discovered. For very large graphs, it is computationally too expensive to repeatedly apply standard clustering algorithms. Instead, algorithms whose time complexity only depends on the size of the incoming subset of edges in every step are needed. At the same time, such algorithms should find clusterings whose quality is close to that produced by offline algorithms. In this paper, we discuss the computational model and present an incremental clustering algorithm. We test the algorithm performance and quality on a wide variety of instances. Our results show that the algorithm far outperforms offline algorithms while retaining a large fraction of their clustering quality.

URLhttps://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9679843
DOI10.1109/ICDMW53433.2021.00051
Citation Key28440

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