Scalable Community Search with Accuracy Guarantee on Attributed Graphs

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Auteurs principaux: Wang, Yuxiang, Ye, Shuzhan, Xu, Xiaoliang, Geng, Yuxia, Zhao, Zhenghe, Ke, Xiangyu, Wu, Tianxing
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author Wang, Yuxiang
Ye, Shuzhan
Xu, Xiaoliang
Geng, Yuxia
Zhao, Zhenghe
Ke, Xiangyu
Wu, Tianxing
author_facet Wang, Yuxiang
Ye, Shuzhan
Xu, Xiaoliang
Geng, Yuxia
Zhao, Zhenghe
Ke, Xiangyu
Wu, Tianxing
contents Given an attributed graph $G$ and a query node $q$, \underline{C}ommunity \underline{S}earch over \underline{A}ttributed \underline{G}raphs (CS-AG) aims to find a structure- and attribute-cohesive subgraph from $G$ that contains $q$. Although CS-AG has been widely studied, they still face three challenges. (1) Exact methods based on graph traversal are time-consuming, especially for large graphs. Some tailored indices can improve efficiency, but introduce nonnegligible storage and maintenance overhead. (2) Approximate methods with a loose approximation ratio only provide a coarse-grained evaluation of a community's quality, rather than a reliable evaluation with an accuracy guarantee in runtime. (3) Attribute cohesiveness metrics often ignores the important correlation with the query node $q$. We formally define our CS-AG problem atop a $q$-centric attribute cohesiveness metric considering both textual and numerical attributes, for $k$-core model on homogeneous graphs. We show the problem is NP-hard. To solve it, we first propose an exact baseline with three pruning strategies. Then, we propose an index-free sampling-estimation-based method to quickly return an approximate community with an accuracy guarantee, in the form of a confidence interval. Once a good result satisfying a user-desired error bound is reached, we terminate it early. We extend it to heterogeneous graphs, $k$-truss model, and size-bounded CS. Comprehensive experimental studies on ten real-world datasets show its superiority, e.g., at least 1.54$\times$ (41.1$\times$ on average) faster in response time and a reliable relative error (within a user-specific error bound) of attribute cohesiveness is achieved.
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spellingShingle Scalable Community Search with Accuracy Guarantee on Attributed Graphs
Wang, Yuxiang
Ye, Shuzhan
Xu, Xiaoliang
Geng, Yuxia
Zhao, Zhenghe
Ke, Xiangyu
Wu, Tianxing
Social and Information Networks
Databases
Given an attributed graph $G$ and a query node $q$, \underline{C}ommunity \underline{S}earch over \underline{A}ttributed \underline{G}raphs (CS-AG) aims to find a structure- and attribute-cohesive subgraph from $G$ that contains $q$. Although CS-AG has been widely studied, they still face three challenges. (1) Exact methods based on graph traversal are time-consuming, especially for large graphs. Some tailored indices can improve efficiency, but introduce nonnegligible storage and maintenance overhead. (2) Approximate methods with a loose approximation ratio only provide a coarse-grained evaluation of a community's quality, rather than a reliable evaluation with an accuracy guarantee in runtime. (3) Attribute cohesiveness metrics often ignores the important correlation with the query node $q$. We formally define our CS-AG problem atop a $q$-centric attribute cohesiveness metric considering both textual and numerical attributes, for $k$-core model on homogeneous graphs. We show the problem is NP-hard. To solve it, we first propose an exact baseline with three pruning strategies. Then, we propose an index-free sampling-estimation-based method to quickly return an approximate community with an accuracy guarantee, in the form of a confidence interval. Once a good result satisfying a user-desired error bound is reached, we terminate it early. We extend it to heterogeneous graphs, $k$-truss model, and size-bounded CS. Comprehensive experimental studies on ten real-world datasets show its superiority, e.g., at least 1.54$\times$ (41.1$\times$ on average) faster in response time and a reliable relative error (within a user-specific error bound) of attribute cohesiveness is achieved.
title Scalable Community Search with Accuracy Guarantee on Attributed Graphs
topic Social and Information Networks
Databases
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17242