Efficient Discovery of Motif Transition Process for Large-Scale Temporal Graphs

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Main Authors: Zheng, Zhiyuan, Qi, Jianpeng, Li, Jiantao, Chao, Guoqing, Dong, Junyu, Yu, Yanwei
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author Zheng, Zhiyuan
Qi, Jianpeng
Li, Jiantao
Chao, Guoqing
Dong, Junyu
Yu, Yanwei
author_facet Zheng, Zhiyuan
Qi, Jianpeng
Li, Jiantao
Chao, Guoqing
Dong, Junyu
Yu, Yanwei
contents Understanding the dynamic transition of motifs in temporal graphs is essential for revealing how graph structures evolve over time, identifying critical patterns, and predicting future behaviors, yet existing methods often focus on predefined motifs, limiting their ability to comprehensively capture transitions and interrelationships. We propose a parallel motif transition process discovery algorithm, PTMT, a novel parallel method for discovering motif transition processes in large-scale temporal graphs. PTMT integrates a tree-based framework with the temporal zone partitioning (TZP) strategy, which partitions temporal graphs by time and structure while preserving lossless motif transitions and enabling massive parallelism. PTMT comprises three phases: growth zone parallel expansion, overlap-aware result aggregation, and deterministic encoding of motif transitions, ensuring accurate tracking of dynamic transitions and interactions. Results on 10 real-world datasets demonstrate that PTMT achieves speedups ranging from 12.0$\times$ to 50.3$\times$ compared to the SOTA method.
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spellingShingle Efficient Discovery of Motif Transition Process for Large-Scale Temporal Graphs
Zheng, Zhiyuan
Qi, Jianpeng
Li, Jiantao
Chao, Guoqing
Dong, Junyu
Yu, Yanwei
Databases
Machine Learning
Understanding the dynamic transition of motifs in temporal graphs is essential for revealing how graph structures evolve over time, identifying critical patterns, and predicting future behaviors, yet existing methods often focus on predefined motifs, limiting their ability to comprehensively capture transitions and interrelationships. We propose a parallel motif transition process discovery algorithm, PTMT, a novel parallel method for discovering motif transition processes in large-scale temporal graphs. PTMT integrates a tree-based framework with the temporal zone partitioning (TZP) strategy, which partitions temporal graphs by time and structure while preserving lossless motif transitions and enabling massive parallelism. PTMT comprises three phases: growth zone parallel expansion, overlap-aware result aggregation, and deterministic encoding of motif transitions, ensuring accurate tracking of dynamic transitions and interactions. Results on 10 real-world datasets demonstrate that PTMT achieves speedups ranging from 12.0$\times$ to 50.3$\times$ compared to the SOTA method.
title Efficient Discovery of Motif Transition Process for Large-Scale Temporal Graphs
topic Databases
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15979