TY - GEN
T1 - MET
T2 - SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2015, SDM 2015
AU - Le, Long T.
AU - Eliassi-Rad, Tina
AU - Tong, Hanghang
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded in part by LLNL under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344, by NSF CNS-1314603, by DTRA HDTRA1-10-1-0120, and by DAPRA under SMISC Program Agreement No. W911NF-12-C-0028.
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Copyright © SIAM.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Given the topology of a graph G and a budget κ, how can we quickly find the best κ edges to delete that minimize dissemination in G? Stopping dissemination in a graph is important in a variety of fields from epidemiology to cyber security. The spread of an entity (e.g., a virus) on an arbitrary graph depends on two properties: (1) the topology of the graph and (2) the characteristics of the entity. In many settings, we cannot manipulate the latter, such as the entity's strength. That leaves us with modifying the former (e.g., by removing nodes and/or edges from the graph in order to reduce the graph's connectivity). In this work, we address the problem of removing edges. We know that the largest eigenvalue of the graph's adjacency matrix is a good indicator for its connectivity (a.k.a. path capacity). Thus, algorithms that are able to quickly reduce the largest eigenvalue of a graph often minimize dissemination on that graph. However, a problem arises when the differences between the largest eigenvalues of a graph are small. This problem, known as the small eigen-gap problem, occurs often in social graphs such as Facebook postings or instant messaging (IM) networks. We introduce a scalable algorithm called MET (short for Multiple Eigenvalues Tracking), which efficiently and effectively solves the small eigen-gap problem. Our extensive experiments on different graphs from various domains show the efficacy and efficiency of our approach.
AB - Given the topology of a graph G and a budget κ, how can we quickly find the best κ edges to delete that minimize dissemination in G? Stopping dissemination in a graph is important in a variety of fields from epidemiology to cyber security. The spread of an entity (e.g., a virus) on an arbitrary graph depends on two properties: (1) the topology of the graph and (2) the characteristics of the entity. In many settings, we cannot manipulate the latter, such as the entity's strength. That leaves us with modifying the former (e.g., by removing nodes and/or edges from the graph in order to reduce the graph's connectivity). In this work, we address the problem of removing edges. We know that the largest eigenvalue of the graph's adjacency matrix is a good indicator for its connectivity (a.k.a. path capacity). Thus, algorithms that are able to quickly reduce the largest eigenvalue of a graph often minimize dissemination on that graph. However, a problem arises when the differences between the largest eigenvalues of a graph are small. This problem, known as the small eigen-gap problem, occurs often in social graphs such as Facebook postings or instant messaging (IM) networks. We introduce a scalable algorithm called MET (short for Multiple Eigenvalues Tracking), which efficiently and effectively solves the small eigen-gap problem. Our extensive experiments on different graphs from various domains show the efficacy and efficiency of our approach.
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U2 - 10.1137/1.9781611974010.78
DO - 10.1137/1.9781611974010.78
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84961904764
T3 - SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2015, SDM 2015
SP - 694
EP - 702
BT - SIAM International Conference on Data Mining 2015, SDM 2015
A2 - Venkatasubramanian, Suresh
A2 - Ye, Jieping
PB - Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Publications
Y2 - 30 April 2015 through 2 May 2015
ER -