Compressing Graphs and Indexes with Recursive Graph Bisection
| Title | Compressing Graphs and Indexes with Recursive Graph Bisection |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2016 |
| Authors | Dhulipala, Laxman, Kabiljo, Igor, Karrer, Brian, Ottaviano, Giuseppe, Pupyrev, Sergey, Shalita, Alon |
| Conference Name | Proceedings of the 22Nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining |
| Publisher | ACM |
| Conference Location | New York, NY, USA |
| ISBN Number | 978-1-4503-4232-2 |
| Keywords | Algorithms, Approximation algorithms, Compression, data mining, distributed algorithms, experimentation, graph algorithms, graph theory, Human Behavior, linear arrangement, malware analysis, Metrics, privacy, pubcrawl, Resiliency, social networks |
| Abstract | Graph reordering is a powerful technique to increase the locality of the representations of graphs, which can be helpful in several applications. We study how the technique can be used to improve compression of graphs and inverted indexes. We extend the recent theoretical model of Chierichetti et al. (KDD 2009) for graph compression, and show how it can be employed for compression-friendly reordering of social networks and web graphs and for assigning document identifiers in inverted indexes. We design and implement a novel theoretically sound reordering algorithm that is based on recursive graph bisection. Our experiments show a significant improvement of the compression rate of graph and indexes over existing heuristics. The new method is relatively simple and allows efficient parallel and distributed implementations, which is demonstrated on graphs with billions of vertices and hundreds of billions of edges. |
| URL | http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2939672.2939862 |
| DOI | 10.1145/2939672.2939862 |
| Citation Key | dhulipala_compressing_2016 |