{"title":"Efficient Calculation of Triangle Centrality in Big Data Networks","authors":"Wali Mohammad Abdullah, David Awosoga, S. Hossain","doi":"10.1109/HPEC55821.2022.9926324","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The notion of “centrality” within graph analytics has led to the creation of well-known metrics such as Google's Page Rank [1], which is an extension of eigenvector centrality [2]. Triangle centrality is a related metric [3] that utilizes the presence of triangles, which play an important role in network analysis, to quantitatively determine the relative “importance” of a node in a network. Efficiently counting and enumerating these triangles are a major backbone to understanding network characteristics, and linear algebraic methods have utilized the correspondence between sparse adjacency matrices and graphs to perform such calculations, with sparse matrix-matrix multiplication as the main computational kernel. In this paper, we use an intersection representation of graph data implemented as a sparse matrix, and engineer an algorithm to compute the triangle centrality of each vertex within a graph. The main computational task of calculating these sparse matrix-vector products is carefully crafted by employing compressed vectors as accumulators. As with other state-of-the-art algorithms [4], our method avoids redundant work by counting and enumerating each triangle exactly once. We present results from extensive computational experiments on large-scale real-world and synthetic graph in-stances that demonstrate good scalability of our method. We also present a shared memory parallel implementation of our algorithm.","PeriodicalId":200071,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2022 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HPEC55821.2022.9926324","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The notion of “centrality” within graph analytics has led to the creation of well-known metrics such as Google's Page Rank [1], which is an extension of eigenvector centrality [2]. Triangle centrality is a related metric [3] that utilizes the presence of triangles, which play an important role in network analysis, to quantitatively determine the relative “importance” of a node in a network. Efficiently counting and enumerating these triangles are a major backbone to understanding network characteristics, and linear algebraic methods have utilized the correspondence between sparse adjacency matrices and graphs to perform such calculations, with sparse matrix-matrix multiplication as the main computational kernel. In this paper, we use an intersection representation of graph data implemented as a sparse matrix, and engineer an algorithm to compute the triangle centrality of each vertex within a graph. The main computational task of calculating these sparse matrix-vector products is carefully crafted by employing compressed vectors as accumulators. As with other state-of-the-art algorithms [4], our method avoids redundant work by counting and enumerating each triangle exactly once. We present results from extensive computational experiments on large-scale real-world and synthetic graph in-stances that demonstrate good scalability of our method. We also present a shared memory parallel implementation of our algorithm.