TRIEST: Counting Local and Global Triangles in Fully-Dynamic Streams with Fixed Memory Size
Lorenzo De Stefani*, Brown University; Alessandro Epasto, Brown; Matteo Riondato, Two Sigma Investments; Eli Upfal, Brown University
Abstract
We present TRIEST, a suite of one-pass streaming algorithms to compute unbiased, low-variance, high-quality approximations of the global and local (i.e., incident to each vertex) number of triangles in a fully-dynamic graph represented as an adversarial stream of edge insertions and deletions.
Our algorithms use reservoir sampling and its variants to exploit the user-specified memory space at all times. This is in contrast with previous approaches, which require hard-to-choose parameters (e.g., a fixed sampling probability) and offer no guarantees on the amount of memory they use. We analyze the variance of the estimations and show novel concentration bounds for these quantities.
Our experimental results on very large graphs demonstrate that TRIEST outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in accuracy and exhibits a small update time.
Filed under: Big Data | Time Series and Stream Mining | Mining Rich Data Types | Graph Mining and Social Networks