A GPU Accelerated Temporal Window-Based Random Walk Sampler

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Main Authors: Salehin, Md Ashfaq, Parisis, George, Berthouze, Luc
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Published: 2026
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author Salehin, Md Ashfaq
Parisis, George
Berthouze, Luc
author_facet Salehin, Md Ashfaq
Parisis, George
Berthouze, Luc
contents Temporal random walks, which sample causality-preserving paths, are widely used to analyze time-stamped interactions in domains such as microservices, finance, and online platforms. Generating such walks at scale is challenging because real-world graphs evolve as high-volume streams, making continuous ingestion, efficient memory usage, and strict temporal ordering essential for practical deployment. We present Tempest (TEMPoral nEtwork Streaming Traversals), a GPU-accelerated engine for streaming temporal random walks. Tempest combines a GPU-native dual-index organization over a shared edge store with a hierarchical cooperative scheduler that dispatches walks at thread, warp, or block granularity based on per-step node convergence, enabling efficient start-edge selection, hop-by-hop causality enforcement, and window-based eviction without synchronization. It further provides closed-form constant-time samplers for common temporal bias functions. Our evaluation demonstrates sustained real-time processing of billion-edge streams under sliding windows, outperforming prior systems in ingestion and walk generation throughput while preserving causal correctness.
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spellingShingle A GPU Accelerated Temporal Window-Based Random Walk Sampler
Salehin, Md Ashfaq
Parisis, George
Berthouze, Luc
Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
Temporal random walks, which sample causality-preserving paths, are widely used to analyze time-stamped interactions in domains such as microservices, finance, and online platforms. Generating such walks at scale is challenging because real-world graphs evolve as high-volume streams, making continuous ingestion, efficient memory usage, and strict temporal ordering essential for practical deployment. We present Tempest (TEMPoral nEtwork Streaming Traversals), a GPU-accelerated engine for streaming temporal random walks. Tempest combines a GPU-native dual-index organization over a shared edge store with a hierarchical cooperative scheduler that dispatches walks at thread, warp, or block granularity based on per-step node convergence, enabling efficient start-edge selection, hop-by-hop causality enforcement, and window-based eviction without synchronization. It further provides closed-form constant-time samplers for common temporal bias functions. Our evaluation demonstrates sustained real-time processing of billion-edge streams under sliding windows, outperforming prior systems in ingestion and walk generation throughput while preserving causal correctness.
title A GPU Accelerated Temporal Window-Based Random Walk Sampler
topic Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16182