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Parallel and I/O-efficient Randomisation of Massive Networks using Global Curveball Trades

Authors Corrie Jacobien Carstens, Michael Hamann, Ulrich Meyer, Manuel Penschuck, Hung Tran, Dorothea Wagner

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Corrie Jacobien Carstens
  • University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Michael Hamann
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Ulrich Meyer
  • Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Manuel Penschuck
  • Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Hung Tran
  • Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Dorothea Wagner
  • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

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This work was partially supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under grants ME 2088/3-2, ME 2088/4-2, and WA 654/22-2.

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Corrie Jacobien Carstens, Michael Hamann, Ulrich Meyer, Manuel Penschuck, Hung Tran, and Dorothea Wagner. Parallel and I/O-efficient Randomisation of Massive Networks using Global Curveball Trades. In 26th Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 112, pp. 11:1-11:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2018.11

Abstract

Graph randomisation is a crucial task in the analysis and synthesis of networks. It is typically implemented as an edge switching process (ESMC) repeatedly swapping the nodes of random edge pairs while maintaining the degrees involved [Mihail and Zegura, 2003]. Curveball is a novel approach that instead considers the whole neighbourhoods of randomly drawn node pairs. Its Markov chain converges to a uniform distribution, and experiments suggest that it requires less steps than the established ESMC [Carstens et al., 2016]. Since trades however are more expensive, we study Curveball's practical runtime by introducing the first efficient Curveball algorithms: the I/O-efficient EM-CB for simple undirected graphs and its internal memory pendant IM-CB. Further, we investigate global trades [Carstens et al., 2016] processing every node in a single super step, and show that undirected global trades converge to a uniform distribution and perform superior in practice. We then discuss EM-GCB and EM-PGCB for global trades and give experimental evidence that EM-PGCB achieves the quality of the state-of-the-art ESMC algorithm EM-ES [M. Hamann et al., 2017] nearly one order of magnitude faster.

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  • Mathematics of computing → Random graphs
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  • Graph randomisation
  • Curveball
  • I/O-efficiency
  • Parallelism

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