Vertex Centric Asynchronous Belief Propagation Algorithm for Large-Scale Graphs
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This document presents a vertex-centric asynchronous belief propagation algorithm for large-scale graphs. It proposes running belief propagation in a single computational node by processing vertices in parallel through an asynchronous vertex-centric approach. The algorithm is shown to converge faster than previous approaches and can scale to larger graphs by utilizing multicore architectures. Experiments on graphs with millions of edges demonstrate that the algorithm achieves similar accuracy to previous methods but with significantly better runtime performance, making it suitable for inference on very large real-world graphs.
![Introduction Belief Propagation Algorithm Methodology and Experiments Conclusions
Vertex-centric paradigm
Vertex-centric model
procedure Graph scan(Graph G)
for i = 1 to |V | do
sete ← set of edges adjacent to V [i]
V [i].value ← f (sete )
for each edge e in sete do
e.value ← g(V [i].value, e.value)
Outer loop
procedure Graph processing
while convergence criterion is not satisfied do
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- 1. Introduction Belief Propagation Algorithm Methodology and Experiments Conclusions Vertex Centric Asynchronous Belief Propagation Algorithm for Large-Scale Graphs Gabriel Gimenes Hugo Gualdron Jose F. Rodrigues-Jr Instituto de Ciencias Matematicas e de Computacao University of Sao Paulo - Sao Carlos DamNet - 2016 ICDM Workshop, Barcelona, Spain This work has finantial support from FAPESP 2014/25337-0
- 2. Introduction Belief Propagation Algorithm Methodology and Experiments Conclusions Outline 1 Introduction 2 Belief Propagation Algorithm 3 Methodology and Experiments 4 Conclusions
- 3. Introduction Belief Propagation Algorithm Methodology and Experiments Conclusions Outline 1 Introduction 2 Belief Propagation Algorithm 3 Methodology and Experiments 4 Conclusions
- 4. Introduction Belief Propagation Algorithm Methodology and Experiments Conclusions Context Ubiquitous data generation Information availability: pros and cons Web 2.0 – users are producing data and not only consuming Relationships between elements Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, GooglePlay, Email Intuitive modelling: Graphs(Networks)
- 5. Introduction Belief Propagation Algorithm Methodology and Experiments Conclusions Problem Analyzing large-scale networks – efficient and powerful Some graphs (e.g YahooWeb e Twitter) may not fit memory Naive processing: prohibitive Alternative: distributed processing complexity, infrastructure, cost How to process in a single computational node?
- 6. Introduction Belief Propagation Algorithm Methodology and Experiments Conclusions Rationale New approaches: Taking advatange of the multi-core architecturess Centralized → Decentralized Vertex-centric processing techniques Block-based processing Asynchronous processing Proposals: TurboGraph, GraphChi, X-Stream, MMap, M-Flash, FlashGraph; Pregel, GraphLab, Giraph.
- 7. Introduction Belief Propagation Algorithm Methodology and Experiments Conclusions Vertex-centric paradigm Vertex-centric model procedure Graph scan(Graph G) for i = 1 to |V | do sete ← set of edges adjacent to V [i] V [i].value ← f (sete ) for each edge e in sete do e.value ← g(V [i].value, e.value) Outer loop procedure Graph processing while convergence criterion is not satisfied do Graph scan(G)
- 8. Introduction Belief Propagation Algorithm Methodology and Experiments Conclusions Outline 1 Introduction 2 Belief Propagation Algorithm 3 Methodology and Experiments 4 Conclusions
- 9. Introduction Belief Propagation Algorithm Methodology and Experiments Conclusions Algorithm Belief propagation - bayesian inference method Estimating the marginal probability distribution for non-annotated nodes Message passing: information travels from annotated to unannotated nodes Guilty-by-association or ”birds of a feather flock together” Heterophily vs Homophily
- 10. Introduction Belief Propagation Algorithm Methodology and Experiments Conclusions Problem Original algorithm proposed for trees - no loops Loopy BP (Murphy et al.) generalized algorithm Problems with convergence and performance Early applications in stereo-imaging and facial reconstruction
- 11. Introduction Belief Propagation Algorithm Methodology and Experiments Conclusions Evolution Performance and scalability: distributed processing Gonzalez et al. – distributed inefficiencies Kang et al. – algorithm relevance for anti-malware and fraud detection applications Gatterbauer et al. – linear approximation, convergence guarantees and better performance
- 12. Introduction Belief Propagation Algorithm Methodology and Experiments Conclusions BP vs LinBP Belief Propagation bs (i) = es (i) u∈N(s) mus (i) mst (i) = c−1 j=0 Hst (j, i)es (j) u∈N(s)t mus (j) Linearized Belief Propagation ˆbs (i) = ˆes (i) + 1 k u∈N(s) ˆmus (i) ˆmst (i) = k j ˆHst (j, i)ˆbs (j) − j ˆHst (j, i) ˆmts (j)
- 13. Introduction Belief Propagation Algorithm Methodology and Experiments Conclusions Outline 1 Introduction 2 Belief Propagation Algorithm 3 Methodology and Experiments 4 Conclusions
- 14. Introduction Belief Propagation Algorithm Methodology and Experiments Conclusions Proposal and contributions Algorithm: change of paradigm, asynchronous parallel vertex-centric processing Convergence: better convergence speed (number of iterations) Scalability: commodity computer
- 15. Introduction Belief Propagation Algorithm Methodology and Experiments Conclusions Our algorithm VC-LinBP 1: procedure VC-LinBP(G(V , E), VExplicit, H, h, t) 2: set H = hH 3: set H2 = H2 4: repeat 5: for each vertex in V do 6: Update(vertex) 7: until t iterations or convergence achieved
- 16. Introduction Belief Propagation Algorithm Methodology and Experiments Conclusions Our algorithm Update 1: procedure Update(vertex) 2: Set degree = 0 3: for each class c in vertex do initializing vertex values for each class 4: vertex.value(c) = 0 5: for each incoming edge e to vertex do processing incoming messages 6: degree+ = e.weight2 7: for each each class cfrom do 8: for each each class cto do 9: vertex.value(cto) += e.weight * e.value(cfrom) * H(cfrom, cto) 10: if vertex is not explicit then echo cancellation of messages 11: for each each class cfrom do 12: for each each class cto do 13: vertex.value(cto)− = degree ∗ vertex.value(cfrom) ∗ H2(cfrom, cto) 14: else adding explicit value of the vertex 15: vertex.value(c)+ = VExplicit (vertex)(c) 16: for each outgoing edge e from vertex do sending messages to neighbors 17: for each each class c do 18: e.value(c) = vertex.value(c)
- 17. Introduction Belief Propagation Algorithm Methodology and Experiments Conclusions Experiments Efficiency and efficacy i7 CPU 8 cores, 16GB RAM, 240GB SSD Comparison with LinBP 2 versions: single e multi-threaded Utilizing the GraphChi framework
- 18. Introduction Belief Propagation Algorithm Methodology and Experiments Conclusions Datasets Generated with the Kronecker product method – SNAP 4 different networks Datasets Graph # Nodes # Edges 1 59,049 1,048,576 2 177,147 4,194,304 3 531,441 16,777,216 4 1,594,323 67,108,864
- 19. Introduction Belief Propagation Algorithm Methodology and Experiments Conclusions Experiments Coupling Matrix 1 2 3 1 0.266667 -0.033333 0.366667 2 0.033333 -0.333333 0.366667 3 -0.233333 0.366667 -0.133333 3 classes, 5% randomly initialized (annotated) Coupling matrix and initialization procedure based on LinBP’s experimentation
- 20. Introduction Belief Propagation Algorithm Methodology and Experiments Conclusions Experiments - Validation Validation Graph Top-beliefs’ Agreement (%) 1 100% 2 100% 3 99% 4 99% Divergences are related to tiebreak scenarios Efficacy – to be expected
- 21. Introduction Belief Propagation Algorithm Methodology and Experiments Conclusions Experiments - Scalability Runtime (sec) Graph LinBP-SQL VC-LinBP-1thread VC-LinBP-8threads 1 39.04 0.31 0.23 2 179 1.27 0.75 3 826 5.90 3.15 4 5000 34.62 18.69 Fixed number of iterations (5 iterations) Only runtime is considered – excluding pre-processing time
- 22. Introduction Belief Propagation Algorithm Methodology and Experiments Conclusions Experiments 1 10 100 1000 1e+06 1e+07 1e+08 Number of Edges Runtime(sec) VC_LinBP_1thread VC_LinBP_8threads LinBP (a) Scalability 0 2 4 6 8 1 2 3 4 Dataset NumberofIterations LinBP VC_LinBP (b) Convergence Elidan et al. – asynchronous version is at worst the same as synchronous
- 23. Introduction Belief Propagation Algorithm Methodology and Experiments Conclusions Outline 1 Introduction 2 Belief Propagation Algorithm 3 Methodology and Experiments 4 Conclusions
- 24. Introduction Belief Propagation Algorithm Methodology and Experiments Conclusions Future Work In-memory implementation – performance comparison Experiments with bigger datasets Detailed tiebreak scenarios Real-world dataset experiments – DBLP, Malware detection, Image segmentation
- 25. Introduction Belief Propagation Algorithm Methodology and Experiments Conclusions Thank you! Questions?